Using Cut, Copy and Paste of Variables with Behaviors

When you copy and paste a variable with one or more behaviors, the behaviors are included in the paste and a duplicate behavior is created for the duplicate variable.

Should the behavior be one that includes one or more variables in its configuration (threshold, chronometer, etc.) then those variables will also be duplicated as long as they are only used in a behavior of one variable.

If several behaviors use the same variables in their configuration (for example a common reset variable for several chronometers), then those variables common to the behaviors will not be duplicated.

The Application Explorer will determine the strategy to apply for a copy paste by analyzing both the name of the variable and the names of the variables involved in the behavior. It will duplicate the behavior variables as long as their names conform to the following rule.

• The full name (that is branch and leaf) of any variable included in a behavior that is to be copied and pasted should contain the name of the leaf of the variable to which the behavior is attached.

This example of a register with chronometer behavior, that follows this rule, illustrates this.

	Original variables	Copy to new variable name under the same branch	Copy same variable name to new branch Branch02
Register	Branch01.Register01	Branch01.Register02	Branch02.Register01
Trigger bit	Branch01.Register01.Trigger	Branch01.Register02.Trigger	Branch02.Register01.Trigger
Init bit	Branch01.Register01.Reset	Branch01.Register02.Reset	Branch02.Register01.Reset
Register	Branch01.Register01	Branch01.Register02	Branch02.Register01
Trigger bit	Branch01.Register01_Trigger	Branch01.Register02_Trigger	Branch02.Register01_Trigger
Init bit	Branch01.Register01_Reset	Branch01.Register02_Reset	Branch02.Register01_Reset

If the names used for the included variables do not follow this rule, the variables included in the behavior of the newly pasted variable will keep the original names.

	Original variables	Copy to new variable name under the same branch	Copy same variable name to new branch Branch02
Register	Branch01.Register01	Branch01.Register02	Branch02.Register01
Trigger bit	Branch01.Trigger	Branch01.Trigger	Branch01.Trigger
Init bit	Branch01.Reset	Branch01.Reset	Branch01.Reset

Copy and paste of a register with threshold behavior

If you add a threshold behavior to a register, the names of the threshold variables that it automatically generates do not follow the above rule. The threshold variable name contains a modified copy of the register name including the threshold type. The copy paste behavior is modified to accommodate this. The following table illustrates this.

	Copied variable name	Pasted variable name
Register	Branch01.Register01	Branch01.Register02
Hi hi threshold	Branch01.Register01_HiHi	Branch01.Register02_HiHi
High threshold	Branch01.Register01_High	Branch01.Register02_High
Low threshold	Branch01.Register01_Low	Branch01.Register02_Low
Lo lo threshold	Branch01.Register01_LoLo	Branch01.Register02_LoLo