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Understanding the copy commands

Meridian provides various commands for copying documents to create new revisions or versions. Each command behaves differently with respect to:

Each can be useful in different situations depending on the document being copied, the purpose of the copied documents, and your organization’s engineering change process.

The following table summarizes the differences between the Meridian copy commands on the source and copied documents to help you understand which command to use in your particular situation.

Copy commands comparison
Command Revision Number of Copy Status of Source References to/from Source Reference Between Source and Copy

Initiate a document workflow

Incremented before or after the workflow

Unchanged

Redirected to the copy (new revision)

None

Copy, Copy Document, and Paste Multiple

Unchanged

Unchanged

Unchanged

None

Copy with References

Unchanged

Unchanged

Copied to the copy

None

Derive Document

Unchanged

Unchanged

Unchanged

Derived From/Derived To

Derive with References

Unchanged

Unchanged

Copied to the copy

Derived From/Derived To

Replace Document/Create New Version

Incremented

Retired

Redirected to the copy

Replaced By/Replacement For

Create Project Copy

Unchanged Unchanged Copied to the copy

Master Project Copy

For information on using each command, see the following topics.

Related concepts

About importing documents

About scanning documents

Related tasks

Creating a new document from a template

Copying a document

Deriving a document

Replacing a document

Importing hybrid documents

Copying a master document to a project


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