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How to Duplicate Entire Lists of Events
Another time-saving strategy is made possible by the ability to duplicate entire execution lists of events and put them in a new group. Remember that the list of events in the Execution List Window are not events per se, they are pointers to events and cannot be modified without modifying the events to which they point. However, considerable time can be saved by duplicating events that are similar but not the same as the ones that are not exactly right, entering their names into the execution list and deleting the event names that are not right.
To copy an entire group, click on the Sequencing tab of the Edit Protocols Page. Click on the group that you wish to copy. Click on the Actions menu and select Copy. Now, a new group will appear in the Execution List. It will simply be called "New Group." Looking inside the group by that name in the Execution List of the Sequencing Page, you will see the same list of events by the same names as in the original group. These are not actual events and as such they do not appear in the Event Names Window or the Events window. They are simply names of events that cannot be changed unless the events for which they were named were changed - in which case, every instance of the names in the Execution List also would be changed.
To change the name of the new group, click on the Groups tab. In the Group Specification Table, change the name from "New Group" to the name of your choice.
While the names in the execution list cannot be changed, they can be deleted and names can be inserted. To illustrate, lets suppose that you are created the Control Group in the Execution List by duplicating the list of event names in the Treatment Group. Since there is no treatment in a control group, the name of the treatment event in the new group can be deleted and replaced by the name of a new event called a "Null Event."
To make a null event, click on the Events tab and above the Event Specification Table click on Create. Select Treatment and under that "Unspecified Treatment." Now, change the event label in the Event Specification Table from "Unspecified Treatment" to "Null Event." Return to the Sequencing page and select the Control Group. In the Event Names Window, click on "Null Event" and then on the right arrow called "Enter Event Name."