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Drawer maintenance

Copy Drawers dialog [File menu]

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Use this dialog to copy drawers from the current data location to another data location.
note
To use this dialog, your firm must have more than one data location.
To open this dialog, choose
File
Copy Drawers
 or mark the
Open Copy Drawers dialog
 checkbox in the
Add Database
,
Data Location
, or
Add Data Location
 dialogs after adding a data location.

Fields & buttons

Destination location
From this drop-down list, choose the data location to which you want to copy drawers.
Drawers available to copy
Shows a list of all drawers available to copy.
To sort the list by drawer ID or name, select the words
Drawer ID
 or
Drawer Name
 in the title bar of the list pane.
Drawers to copy
Shows the drawers you have selected to be copied to the chosen data location. To copy the selected drawers, select the
Copy
 button.
To sort the list by drawer ID or name, select the words
Drawer ID
 or
Drawer Name
 in the title bar of the list pane.
Focus
Focus checkboxes
If you have assigned statuses to your drawers, you can mark or clear the status checkboxes in the
Focus
 section to focus the Drawer list by status.
Options
Automatically create folders
Mark this checkbox to add custom folders to the destination location during the copy process.
Enable application lock during copy process (all other users must exit FileCabinet CS and integrated applications)
Mark this checkbox to keep other users from accessing FileCabinet CS during the copy process.
Copy documents from selected folders only
Mark this checkbox to copy to the destination location all documents from folders that you select. The
Select Folders
 dialog opens automatically when you select this checkbox.
This action will overwrite all data in destination drawers that correspond with the drawers that you select.
Move documents from selected folders only
Mark this checkbox to move to the destination location all documents from folders that you select. The
Select Folders
 dialog opens automatically when you click this checkbox.
This action will overwrite all data in destination drawers that correspond with the drawers that you select.
Select Folders
Use this button to re-open the
Select Folders
 dialog, where you can update your folder selections as needed.
note
The
Select Folders
 dialog opens automatically when you select the
Copy documents from selected folders only
 checkbox or the
Move documents from selected folders only
 checkbox.

This article applies to:

  • PRODUCT: FileCabinet CS