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The Copy validation wizard in 2.2 is not very bright, it hinders productivtity rather than enhancing it.

Suppose I have a Item-specific NOT NULL validation for P1_ITEM1. I would like to create a similar validation on P1_ITEM2. So I click on the Copy Validation icon to start the wizard.

It asks me which validation to copy and which page to copy it to. So far so good.

On the next page, it just has the Target Validation Name, Sequence and When Button Pressed condition. (no mention of which item, if any, I want to apply the validation to).

So I specify my Target Validation Name as P1_ITEM2 and click the Copy button.

What it ends up creating is a validation called P1_ITEM2 of type Item Not Null with an Validation Expression of P1_ITEM1 and Associated Item as P1_ITEM1

In other words, it has not really created a working validation for P1_ITEM2 as I expected, it has just re-created the validation on P1_ITEM1 with a different name! That is kind of useless.

Yes, I can always go to the Validation it creates and tweak it, but that defeats the purpose of using the wizard. I might as well create the validation from scratch instead.

Any "copy" feature should result in a "working copy" and not require tweaking to achieve the functionality it should have provided in the first place, so I consider this a bug.

Thanks