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Figure 36: Paste Special dialog

When you are copying devices, there are various options.
The marked devices can be duplicated with all additions and properties (e.g. also group
addresses, modified parameters etc.). This saves time as the new devices are
automatically inserted and their parameters and address links are taken over from the
original device 1 to 1. There are three strategies: to create, keep or omit group addresses.

1. Keep: This option is suitable for copying totally identical devices (for instance a
switch in a corridor or staircase). No new group addresses are created, just one
new individual address. The parameter settings are taken over from the source
object.
2. Create new: This option saves you from manually creating and linking new group
addresses. However, you should prepare this option very carefully. Reason: Each
open address link is indeed newly created, but if you have not copied its
communication partner, ETS is unaware of this. After subsequent copying of the
forgotten device, further new addresses are created, which do not match those
created during the previous copying process. This means that whenever you copy
with the option to create new addresses, all involved devices must be copied in
one go. Exceptions to this are the “central addresses”: they are not changed when
copying. You can use this feature to your benefit to avoid the “cloning” of
addresses that do not have a sender or receiver. Real central functions are of
course also not created as new copies when using this option.
3. Do not create address links: Choose this option when you only need a device that
does not have the standard parameters from the catalog, but those you previously
configured.

The result of the copying operation is too extensive to show here. However, the
description of the new devices and their addresses still need to be adapted. As we have

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