Copying documentation

[Controls Guy]

It seems to me like there was a way to poach the documentation, especially element documentation, from another project.  Now all I can come up with is to do an export+import, but there's no option for a "native" export, only csv/txt, which hoses the line breaks, which I spent great care with.  Am I on crack or was there a way to do this?

I guess you could import the ladder into the file with the correct docs, or a copy of it, and delete the ladder that was there before.

[franji1]

It appears cut/paste from the doc editor does NOT maintain the soft CR either

We need to fix that.  Sorry about that.   

Here's a hack: Close all DirectSOFT sessions.  Delete the NEW project's .ESD and .ESX files, then copy the "desired" project's .ESD .ESX extensioned-files to the new project's name with the same extensions.  This will get you all of the element documentation from the one project into the other, however there is no way to "merge" them AND maintain the soft CR.

e.g. if the existing project's name is MyProject and the new project name is NewProject, just copy
MyProject.ESX to NewProject.ESX
MyProject.ESD to NewProject.ESD
(I guess you don't need to delete NewProject .ESX and .ESD files since you are overwriting the existing ones anyway)

[Controls Guy]

Thanks, Mark.  That should work OK for me as there is a lot more "old" stuff than "new" so if I do what you're saying then move the new ones via an Export-Import merge, I'll just have to fix the new ones which won't be so bad.