Copy and Paste TARA Artifacts between and within Projects

You can copy and paste a single or multiple TARA artifacts along with all linked items from one project to another only if the methodologies are compatible. To multi-select several artifacts, use Ctrl+Click for arbitrary artifacts and Shift+Click for a range of artifacts.

The copy and paste functionality helps to copy the following artifacts:

  • TOE configuration
  • Assumptions
  • Security controls
  • Security properties
  • Attack trees
  • Technical attack trees
  • Circumvent trees
  • Security claims

To copy the TARA artifacts

  1. Perform one of the following steps:
    1. Right-click the artifact and select Copy from the context menu.
    2. Select the artifact and click Copy icon from the "Home" menu.
    3. Press Ctrl+Shift+C.

The "Please select the linked item types to be copied:" pop-up is displayed.

  1. Activate or deactivate the check boxes to copy the linked item types.
  2. Click OK.
    The selected artifacts are copied.
  1. Perform one of the following steps:
    1. Right-click and select Paste from the context menu.

    2. Click Paste icon from the "Home" menu.

    3. Press Ctrl+V.
  2. The copied artifacts are pasted.