This action is used to clone a context representing some system object, like Alert or Widget. It behaves in two different ways:
1. If it is invoked for a "holder" context (such Favourites or Global Common Data), it works like a Drag-and-Drop action, allowing user to activate it by Drag-and-Drop operation or by selecting an "accepted" context first. Then a copy of the accepted context is created in the holder context. In this way you could take an alert from one user account and create a copy of it in another user account.
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There is no Move action. To move an object, copy it and then delete it. |
2. If the action is invoked in the context of some system object itself (like a specific Widget or an Event Filter), it creates a copy of this context in its parent "holder" context.
Action Flow
1. A new context is created, of the same type as context being copied. Its name is auto-generated by appending "_copy" to the name of the copied context. Its description is also auto-generated by appending the word "Copy" to the Description of the original context.
2. All settings are copied from the original context to the newly created one. Read-only variables and fields are not copied. For more information about the logic behind copy operations, see Context Copy Operations for more info.