Customizing clipboard fields

You can choose which additional fields are copied to the clipboard when a user clicks the Clipboard icon. The default behavior is to copy the customer's Name.FULL_ADDRESS, but you can designate additional database fields to be copied.

When a user clicks the Clipboard icon, the following information is copied from the current contact's information:

■    Full name followed by a carriage return

■    Title followed by a carriage return

■    Company followed by a carriage return

Note: Title and Company are copied if the these options are selected in Customer Setup > Address and Notes.

■    Administrator-selected fields from the following tables:

□    Name

□    Name_Fin

□    Name_Address

□    any single-instance user defined table

Configure the information that is copied to the clipboard by entering a CP Clipboard Formula in the  Customer Setup - Advanced window that follows these rules:

■    Fields must be named Table.FIELD_NAME and should be separated by the following special tags:

□    [N] - insert a carriage return (new line)

□    [C] - insert a comma

□    [S] - insert a space

□    [U] - convert the next field's value to uppercase

■    No spaces can be included in the formula.

For example, Name.WORK_PHONE[S]Name.HOME_PHONE not Name.WORK_PHONE [S] Name.HOME_PHONE

■    Special tags must be in upper case.

For example, [N] not [n], [S] not [s], [C] not [c], and [U] not [u].

The following CP Clipboard Formula entry copies the customer's work phone number, adds a space, copies the home phone number, adds a comma, copies the email address, starts a new line, and copies the VAT country:  

Name.WORK_PHONE[S]Name.HOME_PHONE[C]Name.EMAIL[N]Name_Fin.VAT_COUNTRY

Notes

■    If there is no value in a particular field, it is treated as if it didn't exist in the copy to clipboard definition.

■    This feature uses the same formatting conventions as International Address Formatting. See Customer Management (see Customers) for more information.

■    If you use the incorrect format in the CP Clipboard Formula field, nothing will be copied to the clipboard when a user clicks the Clipboard icon.

■    You must restart iMIS before your changes take effect.