"Make Like Me" and "Duplicate Me" are both found on your Layout Element's right-click menu in SDesigner

Make Like Me

Use this option if you do not want to create a new layout element, but want to copy the attributes of one layout element to others.

Make Like Me is available by right-clicking any element. This allows you to quickly copy settings between different elements. Designer provides this context sensitive capability as a way of copying properties from one existing layout element to one or more other layout elements. First select the elements you want to change. Next, right-click on the MASTER LAYOUT ELEMENT (your template). You will see a "Make Like Me" menu choice. Placing your mouse on this choice will open a submenu with the choices: All, Color, Text, Look. Clicking on one will apply the applicable changes to all selected elements. "Make Like Me" will do its best to figure out what you want, but you will get the best results with the same type of layout elements (text to text, list box to list box, etc.).

Selecting:

• Color: Changes Label, Text, and Fill colors to match the master element
• Text: Changes Label and Text (data) font face, size, and style
• Look: Changes Box style, fill, shape, and label alignment
• Size: Changes Width and Height to match master element
• All: Changes all of the above settings

Example: To format the elements: "Last Name", "Address", and "City" to be the same as "First Name":

1. Select the Last Name, Address, and City elements
2. Right-click on First Name
3. From the "Make Like Me" menu, select the attributes you want to copy

Duplicate Me:

Use this option if you want to create a new layout element that is like another.

This option is used to "copy and paste" layout elements on a form in Designer. To do so, click on the form where you want the new layout element, then right-click on the layout element you want to duplicate. From the shortcut menu, select "Duplicate me". The new element appears at the cursor position, or at the top left of the form if you did not put the cursor on the form beforehand. The new layout's attributes are identical to the one duplicated (including formatting, restrictions, custom help, initial values, etc), except for name, position, any attached programming and the field binding. Rather than binding to the same field, the new element will bind to a new field of the same type. The name of the new field will be the name of the original field, with a numeric suffix added. The label will be the same as the original.

Duplicating a List Box or Combo Box also duplicates the choices. Duplicating a Radio Button Group also duplicates the radio buttons in that group. Subforms, Tabs and Tab Groups cannot be duplicated. Duplicates are not in any way linked to the original element. You can only duplicate one layout element at a time.

Example:

Original LE Name	Original LE Label	Original Bound To Field
City	City	City
First Duplicate Name	1st Duplicate Label	1st Duplicate Bound To Field
City0	City	City0
Second Duplicate Name	2nd Duplicate Label	2nd Duplicate Bound To Field
City1	City	City1

For more information, see the Designer Layout Tools section in the Sesame User Guide.