New to RTI ... have attended one training, so far watched part 1 of their ID training on YouTube. Now working on my first actual project here and I'm wondering whether I'm missing something; if so I'd appreciate if someone could clue me in as i'm sure I'm missing something here.

Say I want to recreate remote controls for individual devices (Denon avr, Samsung tv, Sony bluray, etc) in a t2x. (Granted, user would rarely if ever need to access Denon or tv page, but imho it's useful to have on remote for initial setup, testing).

I know that the device command sets for IR/serial are in the ID global database, but in order to recreate the individual device on RTI remote one needs to drag/drop each individual commands from library browser to remote (creating buttons on touchscreen for commands without hard button equivalents) .... rather a long, painstaking process imho :-(

Is there not another method/shortcut to accomplish this, what Ami missing?

No real shortcut until apex is released. For now build it once then from then on you can merge the pages into your future projects so you don't need to build them again. Rti until apex had the school of thought that their software is truly open architecture. So they shouldn't decide what commands are or aren't used from a DVD player or receiver. That's up to you. Or for a receiver as an example you don't even need the page of controls. Just put the commands you need into the macros has once a receiver is setup the client shouldn't need to mess with it. The activity macros should turn it on and set things like inputs and surround modes for the user automatically

As long as you plan on using the same remotes in most of your systems, as mentioned above, make the pages on a remote. You can them merge these pages into new remotes as you need. You will only have to point the commands to the port on an XP series processor in each job. Or drop new commands onto each button as needed. This way your pages are done the way you like them and you do not have to create them each time.