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Scratch Pad Services


Scratch-pads provide a means of storing additional, free-format, information against data items.

Items supporting scratch-pads are:


Storing Information

Load the item you you wish to store information against into its maintenance dialogue. Drag the file, or data save, icon for the data you wish to store against the item to the scratch-pad plinth.

Once data has been stored against an item, the scratch-pad plinth will change to reflect the file name and type.

Dropping additional data onto the plinth replaces the existing information in the scratch-pad. To append information: load the current contents of the pad into a suitable editor, modify the information as required and save it back to the pad.

Note: it is the information itself, not a link, that is stored against the data item.


Access Information

To access information stored against an item: Load the required item into its maintenance dialogue and drag the file icon from the scratch-pad plinth to a suitable application. Drag the icon to a filer window to save the data to file.


Deleting Information

To delete the contents of an items scratch-pad: hold the control key down while dragging the file icon from the scratch-pad plinth to a filer window. The data is copied to the file before been removed from the scratch-pad.


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