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Mat16-Pearl
16-Pearl
November 1, 2022
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Windchill customization, copy checkin comment to clipboard

Hi there,

 

the default behavior of windchill is, that if somethings goes wrong during checkin process, the checkin comment is lost.

So I tweaked  <Windchill-installation>\codebase\templates\uwgm\cadx\checkin\checkintables.js a little to make a copy of the comment to a new window like:

 

var comment_window = window.open();
comment_window.document.writeln(comment);

(I intentionally left all code out, which "prettifies" the new window)

  works great!

 

Now I want to copy the comment directly to the clipboard.

But when I try this

// copy comment to clipboard

		navigator.clipboard.writeText(comment)
		.then(() => {
		 alert("successfully copied: " + comment);
		 })
		 .catch(() => {
			alert("something went wrong");
		 });

 I get the error under Creo 8.0.6.0, "checkintables.js Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'then')"

 

What am I doing wrong?

MatAnswer
16-Pearl
November 1, 2022

Ok, I think I found the solution

 

There is an article at w3docs.com about that.

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/javascript/how-to-copy-the-text-to-the-clipboard-with-javascript.html

 

The third and last method works within Creo's embedded browser.

 

...
copyTextToClipboard(comment);
...
}

async function copyTextToClipboard(text) {
	try {
	 await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
	 console.log("Text copied to clipboard " + text);
	} catch(err) {
	 console.log('Error in copying text: ', err);
	}
 }
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Mat16-PearlAuthorAnswer
16-Pearl
November 1, 2022

Ok, I think I found the solution

 

There is an article at w3docs.com about that.

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/javascript/how-to-copy-the-text-to-the-clipboard-with-javascript.html

 

The third and last method works within Creo's embedded browser.

 

...
copyTextToClipboard(comment);
...
}

async function copyTextToClipboard(text) {
	try {
	 await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text);
	 console.log("Text copied to clipboard " + text);
	} catch(err) {
	 console.log('Error in copying text: ', err);
	}
 }
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