Sequence of Sections

Hi @Jana,

When you create a section did you know you can create it from the three dot menu of an existing Section and choose above or below (that section)? 🙂

Choosing the top section and clicking Add Section Above would save you scrolling down to create the section and from moving a section after creating it. Does that help?

Ahh okay, yes you are correct and no other workaround I know of sorry 😢

So… I don’t expect anyone to do this, but here’s a way to avoid copying the section to the bottom of a target work item. I’ve played around with since reading this post:

1. Print your “From” work item to PDF.
2. Highlight and copy the tasks you want to transfer to a new work item.
3. Paste the task lines into a spreadsheet (you’ll get three lines for each task).
4. Use spreadsheet magic to pull out only every third item.
5. Copy and paste and split into Karbon where needed.

Things this doesn’t solve:

1. It’s complicated, so it would only make sense for long work items.
2. The body of checklists does not come across when copied and pasted in this way.

I looked for a feature idea to be able to export, edit, and import work items as JSON. That would allow someone to export a work item, take certain things from it, paste it where they wanted in a target work item, and reimport. I’m pretty sure I have something in like that, but my search was bringing back too many results that didn’t make sense. Maybe I’ll make a new feature idea, lol.

Great question. It’s not a blank line:

When I copy these, they come over like this when pasted into Excel (or Karbon):

EDIT: May I remind anyone reading that I don’t recommend this technique, lol. It’s just my response to the challenge, “Is it possible?” It’s a possible, not very helpful way of getting the job done.