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Cloning a project Empower

Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:31 pm
by EmpowersBane
Hello, i create a lot of development projects in my job and usually the names of the projects are sequential eg Aspirin_Dev1 then Dev2 etc. If i cloned a project does that copy everything from that project (sample sets result sets methods sample set methods) or can you filter it to only copy over relevant ins, proc and report methods? I dont see what benefit cloning is if you cant filter.
Is there a good resource or guide on SuperUser functionality? Waters doesnt seem to have any online.

Re: Cloning a project Empower

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:44 pm
by DR
If you have a project that contains things other than data, cloning it to make you sequentially numbered versions of similar projects makes a little sense.

As suggested by the name of the process, cloning a project results in a new project that is identical to the original in everything except project name.

What we tend to do is periodically create new versions of projects and just pull in the preferences, view filters and such but we never check the methods box. This prevents the data from the old version of the project from coming into the new one. Then we open the old version and copy just the desired methods into the new one.