Paste Tools on Canvas at Cursor

[amolieri]

Would be great if when copying and pasting tools onto the canvas they would appear next to the cursor, instead of near where they are being copied from. On large workflows it's annoying to copy the tool/s, paste, then drag to their new location.

[patrick_digan]

Agree! You can right click and hit paste and that will paste it where your cursor is at; however, as someone who uses keyboard shortcuts, I still copy and paste with keyboard a lot and then have to drag the tool.

[amolieri]

Thanks for the tip! I  never even considered that copy/paste from the menus would work differently than ctrl+c/v. I'm so used to keyboard shortcuts I forget there is another way.

[Philip]

I wish I could add 1,000 stars for this!

[PaulRad]

As Patrick mentioned, we allow for pasting where the mouse cursor is located on the canvas, via right-click. We don't have plans to change the current paste function, but will continue to look into how we might improve this function. Thanks! 

[jpoz]

An update on this request.

Tools will paste at the location of the cursor in the 2019.3 release. Thank you for the suggestion!

[FreeRangeDingo]

Can't agree enough.  I frequently build on a blank canvas and then copy and paste that small component into a larger workflow.  Half the time I can't find where it went.  The other half of the time it blows up all of my containers.

[jpoz]

This is now available in the 2019.3 release. Download it at http://downloads.alteryx.com