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It seems like animation (visual) states cannot be copied/pasted/duplicated in Noesis Studio. This seems like a pretty common/straightforward need when building the UI Visual/Animation states. Do you think you will be providing support for this sometime soon?

Hi K8GW, Dorian here!

Thanks for taking the time to drop by and to mention this; you are completely right.

I've created two different Tickets you can follow which are related to this:

1) Adding support to copy-paste keyframes between different compatible Timelines: #5042.

2) Adding support to duplicate Storyboards/VisualStates/VisualStateTransitions: #5041

Number 2) likely has a bit more technical complexity we'll need to figure out, but if we resolve Number 1), that will in theory allow you to achieve the results you're after -- the only difference being that it would just require you to create your Storyboard/VisualState/VisualStateTransition manually first, and then you'd be able to simply copy-paste your Keyframes from one timeline to another.

Thanks again for bringing this up; we really appreciate the feedback!

- Dorian

Thanks! Really appreciate your reply and I look forward to this functionality in the future!

Hey again K8GW,

Just wanted to follow up with you again on this --- I had a chance to talk with our Engineers today, and found that being able to copy-paste keyframes between Timelines does actually function -- the only caveat is that it requires you to first select the Element in the Destination Timeline before pasting.

So the workflow would look something like this:
1) Select, and copy the desired Keyframe(s) from [ElementName] in the Source Timeline.
2) Head to the Destination Timeline, and select [ElementName] in the Navigator.
3) Paste.

So, with that said, this should unblock you in the immediacy!

I've gone ahead and closed #5042, but we're still planning to look into #5041 in the longer term.

- Dorian