Clipboard Redirection
Clipboard redirection allows you to copy and paste data between your device and the applications running in the VDA session.
Citrix® policies for clipboard redirection
Citrix policies that allow you to achieve clipboard redirection.
Client Clipboard Redirection
The clipboard redirection setting either allows or prevents the clipboard on your device to map on to the VDA clipboard.
By default, clipboard redirection is set to Allowed.
To prevent copy-and-paste data transfer between a session and the local clipboard, select Prohibited.
You can still copy and paste data between applications running in sessions.
File Copy and Paste
Users can copy and paste files between a session and a local client by using the right-click menu or keyboard shortcuts.
Relevant policies
The following clipboard policies are relevant to configuring the feature. For more information about the clipboard policies, see the Policy support list.
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Client clipboard redirection
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Clipboard selection update mode
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Restrict client clipboard write
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Client clipboard write allowed formats
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Restrict session clipboard write
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Session clipboard write allowed formats
Note:
The Limit clipboard client to session transfer size and Limit clipboard session to client transfer size policies control the clipboard buffer size rather than the size of the transferred files. For more information about supported policies, see the Policy support list.
Limitations
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Cut is not supported. Requests to cut a file are treated as copy operations.
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Drag and drop is not supported.
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File copy and paste must be performed sequentially. A new file copy and paste can only begin once the previous operation has finished.
Clipboard redirection bandwidth limit
This setting specifies the maximum allowed bandwidth (kbps) for data transfer between the session and the local clipboards.
Clipboard redirection bandwidth limit percent
This setting specifies the maximum allowed bandwidth for data transfer between the session and the local clipboards, as a percentage of the total session bandwidth.
Limit clipboard client to session transfer size
This setting specifies the maximum size of clipboard data that a single copy-and-paste operation can transfer from a client device to a virtual session.
To limit the clipboard transfer size, enable the Limit clipboard client to session transfer size setting. Then, in the Size Limit field, enter a value in kilobytes to define the size of data transfer between the local clipboard and a session.
By default, this setting is disabled.
Limit clipboard session to client transfer size
This setting specifies the maximum size of clipboard data that a single copy-and-paste operation can transfer from a virtual session to a client device.
To limit the clipboard transfer size, enable the Limit clipboard session to client transfer size setting. Then, in the Size Limit field, enter a value in kilobytes to define the size of data transfer between a session and the local clipboard.
By default, this setting is disabled.
Restrict client clipboard write AND Client clipboard write allowed formats
Enabling the two settings lets you allow specific data formats to be copied and pasted from the session to the client (writing to the client).
The following clipboard formats are system defined:
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CF_TEXT
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CF_BITMAP
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CF_METAFILEPICT
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CF_SYLK
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CF_OEMTEXT
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CF_DIB
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CF_PALETTE
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CF_UNICODETEXT
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CF_HDROP
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CF_LOCALE
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CF_DIBV5
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CF_HTML
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CFX_FILE
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CFX_RICHTEXT
Restrict session clipboard write AND Session clipboard write allowed formats
Enabling the two settings lets you allow specific data formats to be copied and pasted from the client to the session (writing to the session).
The following clipboard formats are system defined:
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CF_TEXT
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CF_BITMAP
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CF_METAFILEPICT
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CF_SYLK
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CF_OEMTEXT
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CF_DIB
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CF_PALETTE
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CF_UNICODETEXT
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CF_HDROP
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CF_LOCALE
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CF_DIBV5
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CF_HTML
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CFX_FILE
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CFX_RICHTEXT