Copy to clipboard is not limited per message

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Expected Result:

Copy to clipboard should be limited to per message.

Actual Result:

Copy to clipboard is copying several messages

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to a conversation
2. Select several messages in a row
3. Click on copy to clipboard in the action menu

Workaround:

Unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

Web ✔️
iOS
Android
Desktop App
Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.0.43-0

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos:

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From @parasharrajat https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p16208390261216007

When we select any text on message and press **Copy to Clipboard ** on context menu.
Selected text is not shown after menu open. No way user can know what is going to be copied full message or selected text.
You select the text and then move you cursor to different location and right click context menu will open at click location but copied text will be the selected text. In short, only copy selected text when context menu is opened over it.
You drag you cursor while clicking among messages, try to select text from multiple messages or Select the User name as well. Then Copy to Clipboard action copies everything that was selected. I think Copy to Clipboard was meant for per message only.

[marcaaron]

Actually, now I'm curious about this issue... Why should we not be able to copy multiple messages? What's wrong with that?

[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sophiepintoraetz (AutoAssignerTriage), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4749 for more details.

[parasharrajat]

Actually, we were able to copy the UserName ,timestamp and anything that was selected etc. So I am not sure if that was desired.

[marcaaron]

Any discussion about it or context to share? There's also this issue which seems to imply copying multiple comments should be allowed.

#1341

[parasharrajat]

Originally posted here https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p16208390261216007

[BaraaSoft]

I would like to work on this issue.
My proposed solution is to disable other comments when user select a particular comment.
Doing so by maintaining the state of whether a specific comments is selectable. Utilising Text [selectable] prop.

[marcaaron]

Link didn't work for me @parasharrajat can you summarize for us what was decided?

[marcaaron]

Closing this based on https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1622237064376000?thread_ts=1620839026.121600&cid=C01GTK53T8Q