Record copy allows the user to quickly move data from one record to another, leaving the original record intact. The fields that uniquely identify a record (the numeric ID - called the primary key - and one or more data fields that serve as an alternate key) are not copied or overwritten.
Two types of record copying are available through the Biotics user interface: copying a global Element Tracking record and all its related Element records (deep copy), or copying any kind of individual record (shallow copy). All copy operations are carried out from inside detail windows. No capability for copying of, or from, a Working List is provided.