Pasting Table rows

Question

One of my clients recently pointed out the following issue after going from FM7.2 to FM8:
In frame 7, it was possible to copy a row from the structure view (click on tablerow element and "Copy"), then insert the cursor in the structure view between to row and "Paste".
From v8 upwards (have confirmed it for Frame 9 as well), following this same procedure does not result in an actual pasting of new rows. There is a row on the clipboard (selecting another row and pasting results in the "do you want to add below/above/replace dialog"), and it looks like Frame does register some form of action. Trying an "Undo" does nothing, while a next undo reverts an action performed before trying to paste the row.
Bug? Feature? Undocumented change?
Doesn't look like it's a "known issue" at least, as there's not much to be found on the matter (I've google my little heart out).
Any info is welcome

Answer 1

When you select a row in the displayed table, look at the structure. You will notice that the row element is NOT selected, just the cell elements. You are correct that if you select the row element in the structure view and cut, you cannot paste the row at the appropriate place. On the other hand, you can insert a row element from the Elements catalog, which inserts the appropriate cell elements also. I think Frame is doing NOT actually copying or cutting the row element, but just the cell elements it contains. I am using Frame 9.
I think it is doing this to avoid problems in Frame 7. I used Frame 7 up until a few months ago. I had come across tables created by others that included row elements WITHOUT cell elements. I could not see them in the graphic view, only in the structure view. And in the structure view, I could NOT delete them. I do not recall trying to add cell elements to them. The only way to get rid of them was to create a new table and copy and paste the good rows from the old table to the new one, and then delete the old one. I had to be careful how I did it because sometimes the copy would bring one of those empty row elements along. I think the trick was to avoid selecting multiple rows when one of the rows was next to an empty row element. To this day, I have been unable to find a scenario that caused the creation of empty row elements in a table.
So, my GUESS is that the copy/cut mechanism in Frame 7 had some bugs that were corrected in Frame 8 and 9. The result is that one cannot actually copy or cut row elements, even though the structure view shows them as selected. The delete rows and paste rows dialog box handles all the row cutting and pasting.
Van