---
title: "Copy, move and link with the clipboard"
description: "Put banners, campaigns, zones or placements on the clipboard from the grids view and paste copies, move them one level down or link banners to placements — with the drag-and-drop equivalent on the entity tree and the caveats on copies that fail part-way."
type: "howto"
audience: [network-manager, advertiser]
keywords: [clipboard, copy, move, link, unlink, paste a copy, number of copies, link or copy, drag and drop, keep creatives linked, move placement, copy campaign]
ui_path: "Account → Advertisers (grids view) → Link or copy (move)"
---

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# Copy, move and link with the clipboard

The clipboard is how you copy, move or link a set of entities between containers without
re-creating them: select rows in the **grids view** of **Account → Advertisers** (or
**Publishers**), put them on the floating clipboard with **Link or copy (move)**, navigate to the
destination and act from the clipboard bar. The entity tree offers the same with drag and drop.
The other bulk operations are on [Bulk banner operations](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations.md).

**Example.** *Northwind Brand Q3* has three 300×250 banners that the agency wants in *Northwind
Retargeting* too. Tick the three → **Link or copy (move)** → **Group by** *All campaigns* → tick
*Northwind Retargeting* → **Paste a copy** → *3* copies each: nine new banners, the originals
untouched.

## Typical scenarios

| You want | Use | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Copy a set of banners into another campaign, 3 copies each | **Link or copy (move)** → clipboard → **Paste a copy** → *3* | grids view; up to 20 copies |
| Move a campaign to another advertiser | **Link or copy (move)** → tick exactly one advertiser → **Move** | grids view, Advertisers level |
| Serve a banner on 12 placements without copying it | **Link or copy (move)** → tick the placements → **Link** | grids view, placements as the destination |
| A second copy of a banner in the same campaign | paste with **nothing selected** in that campaign's grid | the campaign's own grid |

## Step by step

**Link or copy (move)** puts the selected rows on a floating clipboard; navigate to the
destination and act from the clipboard bar.

- **Paste a copy** / **Move** — same family, one level down: banners into a campaign, campaigns
  into an advertiser, zones into a site, placements into a zone. Move needs exactly one
  destination row. A copy asks *Please enter number of copies*, from 1 to 20; over the API and in
  every console copy path the same ceiling of 20 applies.
- **Link / Unlink** — across families: banners ↔ placements, creating or removing serving links
  without copying anything.

**Copying into the level you are already in** — a second copy of a banner in the same campaign —
needs no destination row. Stand in that container's own grid with **nothing selected** and paste:
an empty selection means "here". The clipboard bar says where it will land before you commit.

**Dragging** does the same on the entity tree: drag a banner onto a campaign, a campaign onto an
advertiser. Only rows that will accept the drop highlight, and the badge on the highlighted row
shows which operations are on offer — one icon means the outcome is fixed, two mean you will be
asked to choose.

![Clipboard bar with banners on it and Paste a copy / Move / Link](https://epom.com/docs-images/ad-server/banners-bulk-operations/clipboard-bar.webp)

## Caveats and exceptions

**A copy of several can fail part-way.** The copies already saved stay: the REST answer names the
copy that failed and lists the ones that exist, and a bulk campaign copy lists a campaign whose
copy failed in `failedCampaignIds` after rolling that one campaign's copy back.

**Zones and placements move through the clipboard too** (a zone into a site, a placement into a
zone). A moved placement keeps its placement key, so its published ad tags keep working — see
[Move or copy a zone or placement](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/inventory/zones.md#move-or-copy-a-zone-or-placement).

**Copying or moving a banner with Keep creative(s) linked** silently drops the links your *Link
Placements to Banners* grant does not reach — at *Shared* or *Shared linked* a copy keeps only the
links on inventory shared with you. The copy still succeeds; check the new banner's placement
count if it matters.

**The clipboard holds one entity type at a time** — see
[Bulk banner operations](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations.md#caveats-and-exceptions), together with the
caveats that apply to every bulk operation (who can do it, read-only shares, bulk delete).

## Not working?

| Symptom | Cause | Check — where |
|---|---|---|
| *Selected item(s) are not …* when adding to the clipboard | The clipboard holds another entity type | accept to clear, or paste the first set first |
| Fewer copies than asked | A copy failed part-way; the saved ones stay | the REST answer / `failedCampaignIds` |
| The copied banner has fewer placements | Links outside your *Link Placements to Banners* grant were dropped | the new banner's **Linked placements** |

The causes shared by every bulk operation — the tree view, read-only shares — are on
[Bulk banner operations](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations.md#not-working).

## Reference

The toolbar action that feeds the clipboard is in
[The bulk toolbar actions](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations.md#the-bulk-toolbar-actions); what a link
and an unlink mean is on [Hierarchy and linking](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/concepts/hierarchy-and-linking.md).

## Related

- [Bulk banner operations](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations.md)
- [Mass banner upload](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations-mass-upload.md)
- [Bulk edit banners: properties, URLs, status and labels](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/advertising/banners-bulk-operations-bulk-edit.md)
- [Hierarchy and linking](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/concepts/hierarchy-and-linking.md) — what link and unlink mean
- [Zones](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/guides/inventory/zones.md) — moving a zone or placement