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andres
Brass Contributor
Aug 05, 2021
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Smart Copy missing

Hello all,    I'm on Edge Beta (93.0.961.11) and for the past few months Smart Copy has been missing. It was there at some point in time.  In fact, on the What's New! page that comes up after Edge ...
  • atlanto's avatar
    atlanto
    Aug 13, 2021

    Smart Copy seems to be on field trial stage, at least for me on beta/dev/canary channels.
    In any channels(stable..canary), command-line option "--enable-features=msEdgeAreaSelect" should enable the feature.

     

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johannal
Former Employee
Oct 08, 2021

andres Thanks for sending feedback! It seems like your https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#experimentationandconfigurationservicecontrolis set to 1. In order to receive experiments it needs to be set to 2, or FullMode. This policy is set by your employer, or whoever manages your device, and cannot be changed if it is set to Mandatory. 

 

ncazer Sorry, I'm unable to find your feedback. Did you use the words "Smart Copy" in your description? You can also check if your issue is policy related by going to edge://policy and searching for ExperimentationAndConfigurationServiceControl.

 

Apologies that you are unable to access the feature at this time. We hope to have Smart Copy in all channels soon, and I'll update this thread when it is available. 

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ncazer
Copper Contributor
Oct 11, 2021
Hi johannal,

Thanks for your reply. I did include "Smart Copy" in the description when using Alt+Shift+I to send feedback as you described previously. I just sent it again this morning, please let me know if you get it.

In terms of checking edge://policy and searching for ExperimentationAndConfigurationServiceControl:
On my instance of Edge there is no value set. This seems like it could the the culprit based on your answer above, which also sounds like it is not mandatory by my employer / device manager if it's not set, correct?

If this is the case, can you provide direction to change its value appropriately to "2" or "full"? Thanks again for your assistance.
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    ncazer
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 11, 2021
    Here's an update: I was able to use cmd to edit group policy as described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-policies#experimentationandconfigurationservicecontrol. I confirm that ExperimentationAndConfigurationServiceControl which was not set is now set to "2". I ran cmd again to enable Smart Copy, but I still am not getting the option when using CTRL-SHFT-X.

    I have re-sent you my diagnostic data.

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