18.01 Copy file content to clipboard

Prerequisites

• Products: Liquid UI WS, Liquid UI Server or Local DLL, Client Software
• Commands: ShellExecute(), pushbutton()

Purpose

This article guides the process of copying the content from a text file to the clipboard using the ShellExecute command. Here, we’ll consider the SAP Easy Access screen as an example and walk you through the following steps:

1. Delete the image container on the SAP Easy Access screen.
2. Add a toolbar push button to initiate the copy operation.
3. Add a function to copy the contents to the clipboard.

User Interface

//Create this file inside your script folder for customizing the SAP Easy Access screen. SAPLSMTR_NAVIGATION.E0100.sjs

//Now, let's add the Liquid UI script to the above file and save it.

Customization

1. Delete the image container on the SAP Easy Access screen using del().
    

   // Deletes the image container
   del("X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]");
   

    
   
    
2. Add a toolbar push button labeled Copy to Clipboard to execute the function copyClipBoard on click.
    

   // Creates a toolbar push button labeled Copy to Clipboard
   pushbutton([TOOLBAR],'Copy to Clipboard','?',{'process':copyClipBoard,'size':[1,20]})

    
   
    
3. Add a function to copy the contents to the clipboard.
    

   // Function to copy the text to the clipboard
     function copyClipBoard() 
   {
   system.ShellExecute('cmd.exe','/C type C:\LiquidUI\scripts\file.txt|clip'); 
   }

    

SAP Process

1. Refresh the SAP screen and click the Copy to Clipboard push button to copy the content to the clipboard. Press the Windows key + V to view the copied content.