Monday, February 20, 2012

Copy, Paste And ITIM Workflows

The astute amongst you will have seen that developing ITIM Workflows got a little trickier about a year or so ago when copying and pasting into and out of the script editor just stopped working.

Of course, this isn't an ITIM issue - but rather a "security" loophole plugging issue given to use by the powers that be at Java HQ.

The very astute amonst you will know how to get around this hassle and re-enable clipboard access, but for the rest of you, read on.

Shut-down your browser and any Java based applications. Open your favourite editor - if you are a Windows user, you may want to run it as Administrator! Locate your java.policy file which you may find under {JAVA_HOME}\lib\security and add the following line within the grant { } section:

permission java.awt.AWTPermission "accessClipboard";

Restart your browser and you ought to have full copy/paste functionality once again.

3 comments:

Ra33 said...

Tooo good.. :) worked!! Thanks!

Tricky Harry said...

Hi Swannie,

Well done again ...

Naipaul

Tricky Harry said...

Hi Swannie,

Well done again ... thanks for the get out of jail card again ....

Best Regards
Naipaul