Skip to main content
Open

Copy + Paste of Elements should not reset authorship of element

  • Mar 10, 2021 5:12 PM UTC
  • 2 replies
  • 97 views
Dirk Schollbach

Experienced Behaviour

It seems that copy/pasting sticky-notes in a board resets the information of who created the note and who modified it to the user and time doing the copy/paste.

How could the behaviour be improved

The original authorship of an element should be preserved when copy/pasting it on the same board.

Why does it matter?

I realized this the hard way after suggesting to my collegues to just copy/paste sticky notes on a large board, since dragging them from one place to another was a bit tiresome. When you drag an item you are basically locked out of most of the navigation methods like frames, cursor-navigation and zooming out and in.

Original ownership of a sticky not is quite the valuable information, since it can be used to clarify stuff with the original author.

2 replies

Dirk Schollbach

I actually meant cut and paste. Can’t edit enymore.

I second this requirement. The current functionality undermines the ability of user researchers and workshop facilitators to make best use of Miro. I need to create tags at the moment for every contributor to a session so that I can retain the original author of a post-it as I copy/paste and synthesise session outputs.

 

I can see the rationale equally for overwriting the authorship of a note - that is also useful in some contexts - but we really need a way to dictate what we want to happen when copy/pasting.

🎃 Miro Community Halloween Contest — win a $400 gift card

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement