Add "Paste Special" as an option for right click menu

[jkink]

A minor improvement to editing would be to have an option for "Paste Special" in the right-click menu below Paste. Although I don't frequently copy/paste individual features, the only time I do is when pasting to another layer.

[Eliot_Reid]

I Paste Special ALL the time and while I can do it with the keyboard shortcuts, I'm a heavy mouse user so this would be awesome.

[RTPL_AU]

Feature parity with ArcMap request.

Bring back ability to quickly copy/paste between feature classes in a map. I know Append works great but sometimes all I want to do is open 2 layers, have a look around and copy something from one to the other, save, and move on; even if the attribute fields don't match.

Instead we get this message when the 2 feature classes have identical schema, are in the same fgdb, and the destination is editable.

Edit:
Having the Paste Special option hidden in the top left of the Map ribbon, and not available to use in the typical editing 'zone of activity' is not ideal and having that option in the right-click context menu would be better.

instead:

[RichardHowe]

You can definitely copy and paste between feature classes (as per ArcMap). The only difference worth paying attention to is that the copy and paste commands are contextual in Pro. So which menus, maps, panes etc you have selected right before you click copy and click paste matter. Paste special offers you the ability to select the target layer.

Do the two feature classes you reference have the same geometry type and are they both visible in the toc?

If so, could you try the following:

1. Highlight the map you're working in, in Pro.

2. Select the feature you want to copy

3. Click copy

4. Click the arrow under paste and choose "Paste special", this should show the list of available layers you can paste into

[RTPL_AU]

@RichardHowe 
Thank you.
I had to go looking for the 'arrow under paste'. I right-clicked on anything I could find and there was no such option in any menu I could conjure from its resting place - until I spotted it in the top left corner of the app window while I had the Map ribbon open......

Everything else was correctly set - subset of a dataset so similar schema, all the correct layers made editable & selectable but kept getting the error message.

I'll edit the idea to make the process more efficient - working in one corner of a map and then having to mouse move all the way to the top left for a special paste seems a bit wonky.

[RichardHowe]

Ah yeah. I hadn't considered you were using the right-click menu

I agree paste special should also be present on that menu. In the meantime ctrl+alt+v should also work to save you some time

[City_of_FairfieldGIS]

I agree.  Please add this functionality to the right click menu as it was in ArcMap.

[JenniferCadkin]

Implemented in ArcGIS Pro 3.5