# Report Designer XML Copy Out works, Paste back? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [November 20, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-xml-copy-out-works-paste-back/20973 "2018-11-20T14:57:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-xml-copy-out-works-paste-back/20973/2 "2018-11-20T15:49:42Z")
You could probably adjust the code I posted in previously to support 'pasting' in a table - the reason you can't copy the table out, edit it, and then copy it back in is that it doesn't show up in the system clipboard as the right "type" of data to Java - that's what the MockReportMillClipboard is doing in that example: > [@PDF report linking](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pdf-report-linking/18860/2): > > You completely nerd-sniped me with this topic - I definitely shouldn’t have spent as much time on this as I did. But, this is actually possible with the existing reporting module. We’ll definitely have to see about adding this capability in a better way. Basically, the workaround I came up with relies on the fact that objects in reporting can be copied to the clipboard and show up as XML representations of the underlying Java object. So, to use this (extremely janky) workaround: 0. Paste the s… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/report-designer-xml-copy-out-works-paste-back/20973)._