Open nikku opened 1 year ago
Investigating this issue we found a couple of copy and paste related issues: https://github.com/bpmn-io/bpmn-js/issues/1708.
A poor mans version of this feature can be implemented following along the bpmn-js-copy-paste-example.
It has the following limitations:
We were not able to follow up on the required changes to make browser native focus handling + copy/paste available across all our toolkits (https://github.com/bpmn-io/internal-docs/issues/614#issuecomment-1220481826).
It seems that the problem comes from the breaking change of passing to the bpmn-js version 11.0.0 using the 3rd party library to handle the keyboard: https://www.npmjs.com/package/keyboardevent-key-polyfill
This library is instantiated at the page load but not updated while changing tabs or windows.
The method keyboardeventKeyPolyfill.polyfill()
should be called each time a BPMN Diagram is rendered (?).
The problem is not yet fixed, but it would be nice if someone from BPMN.io look at it more carefully.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a user I want to copy and paste parts of my diagram between different browser/app windows.
Use case: Have multiple diagrams opened in different tabs, but also have diagrams opened in different bpmn-js based applications (Camunda Modeler, Camunda Web Modeler, bpmn.io demo).
Describe the solution you'd like
Describe alternatives you've considered
None.
Additional context
The web platform provides clipboard API as well as
copy
events we may be able to hook into.On the bpmn-js side we'd need to ensure our copy/paste implementation is side-effect free, and the copied tree is serializable.
Depends on https://github.com/bpmn-io/diagram-js/pull/659.