Profile Copying

BookingBuilder Desktop can copy profile data into any web site and into most other software applications, such as Microsoft Word or Excel.

There are two different ways to start the process. Since most likely this will be used more often to copy to data into websites, we'll start there. When you install BookingBuilder Desktop, it adds a button to your Internet Explorer toolbar (Note the "BB" toolbar button second from the right):

Note: If you have customized your IE toolbar, you will not see the new button when you install BookingBuilder Desktop. To see it, right-click the toolbar, click Customize, and look for the "BB" button on the left side, click on it, then click Add and close the customize dialog.

When you click the new button, you will see:

When you click "Drag & Drop New Profile Into This Page", BookingBuilder Desktop will prompt you to display the appropriate profile, copy it into a PNR, and then it will read it from your GDS. If you already have a PNR displayed with the information you want to copy, just click "OK" when it tells you to display and copy a profile. "Drag & Drop Previous Profile Into This Page" will immediately display information from the last profile read by this function (it will not show information from the last profile copied into a web site where BBD fills in all the details; it only remembers the information last used in this function). If you have not yet displayed a profile in this area, either choice will ask you to display a new one.

After the data is read from your GDS, you will see our standard Profile Dialog:

Select the phone number, email address and billing or delivery address you want, and click OK. You can also display a different profile or cancel out. When you click OK, at the top center of your screen you will see:

This dialog shows the information that was read from your profile/PNR and allows you to drag and drop it into the web site. When you start dragging any item from this dialog, the dialog will make itself very small so you can see the web page underneath it. You can also click "Make Small" to make it smaller so you can see what is underneath it. Note that the "Custom Data" area on the right side will contain your custom data variables; see GDS Data Customization for information on configuring those.

This example shows dragging the traveler's first name into the Apple Vacations web site. Put your mouse over the name, and click and hold down the mouse button, than "drag" the data to where it belongs:

As you can see, the yellow drag & drop dialog is much smaller, and when you drag the information there is a yellow box under the mouse pointer showing the data you are dragging. Make sure that the mouse pointer is pointing at the blank where the data goes, then release the mouse button ("drop" the data). The data will be immediately copied into that blank. Note: Make sure you point the mouse pointer at the blank where you want the data and not the data in the mini yellow box.

Normally you cannot drag & drop data into lists, such as a list of credit card types, but we have done extensive programming to allow this. This is an example of dragging the credit card type into the same web page:

Since Windows doesn't normally support dragging data into lists, you will see this symbol when the mouse pointer is over lists: . Put that symbol over the list where the data belongs and release the mouse. As long as the list is in Internet Explorer, BBD will find it and try to fill it in. In this case, you can see that the card type is "VI", but BBD will look through the list and select Visa. It is very intelligent in how it fills in lists with dates and credit card types and should be able to fill in almost any list with this kind of data.

Copying Data Into Other Applications

Many other applications, such as Microsoft Word and Excel, allow you to drag & drop data into them. Since we can't put a button in every application, we added two choices to the menu that appears when you right-click the BB icon in the task tray. For example, if you are writing a letter to a customer and want to quickly move the customer's address into the Word document, right-click the icon:

Select either menu choice to Drag & Drop data. Once you have the yellow Drag & Drop dialog, click down where it says "Drag here for entire Address" and drag that into Word. As you can see below, it drags the entire address, and nicely drops it right into Word:

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