"Copy to clipboard" - Button/Function

[Ed_Liveikis]

Is it possible to use the new Pack functionality to create a copy to clipboard action? I don’t have access yet, I don’t know much about what it is capable of.

[Steven_Hurtado]

@Ed_Liveikis don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible since the packs are based on javascript. I haven’t checked this use case but I’m already on the Packs beta. I might check on this and if I’ve any advance, I’ll let you guys know!

[Daniel_Stieber]

Copy to clipboard is part of the latest update

Launched: 7 new updates that make Coda even more powerful thanks to your feedback

Sometimes the smallest changes make the biggest difference in your workflow. We’ve been hearing from many of you how much you appreciate the rate at which we respond to feature requests, so we thought we would share some of the features and improvements we have made over the last month that didn’t make it into our announcements. Here’s what we launched: Capture & validate emails in forms or tables with the email column type. We have rich person references, which allow you to reference…

[Tim_Daff]

Just in case anyone takes this path too… Apparently Copy to Clipboard was in this update but was then removed.

[Pch]

Hi @Tim_Daff

What do you mean by :

@Tim_Daff

Apparently Copy to Clipboard was in this update but was then removed.

I can still find CopyToClipboard() as a Button Action

or use it in a Button Formula

[Daniel_Stieber]

Oh nice @Pch

I think it was introduced in the linked article “8 new updates”, then removed, so the article changed to “7 new updates” – but later it got reintroduced without a community message

So in the end we have copy to clipboard yay!

[Pch]

Thanks @Daniel_Stieber for the explanations here !

I felt a bit lost earlier !

Edit: There’s now a post confirming that Yay , we have CopyToClipBoard() !

Launched: 7 new updates that make Coda even more powerful thanks to your feedback

Hi Tim, Sorry I never followed up here, but the copy to clipboard button action was made available about a week after this post. You should see it now when setting up a button or automation. It’s available in the ‘Action’ dropdown, or if you are entering the formula manually, it’s named ‘CopyToClipboard’

[Shaina_Nacion1]

When I use the “Copy to Clipboard” button to copy text from another cell, the formatting of the text is not retained. Specifically, it gets rid of all of my bullet lists. Does anyone have a workaround for this?

[joost_mineur]

@Andrea_Levinge ,
you can make a column button with the CFL as in the screenprint below. If you paste it to a Coda canvas, it show the text from the Display column or the row in which you clicked the button as a @ reference to the row. If you past to a text editor (or any other program) it will paste a url to the row.