I set up my first two MX900s this past week - what's the deal with shortcuts, are they no longer available?!? Don't get me wrong, I really like the "copy & paste" function that's now available ... can *finally* conslidate my discrete commands with the rest of the device's - but shortcuts were invaluable to me, and their loss will be missed.

For instance, macros - with the MX700-850 I often created a single macro and then referenced it in other locations via shortcut ... the interface for defining a shortcut was a bit kludgy, but serviceable; the advantage here is that if I change the macro, all references to it are automagically updated.

However, with the new model, if I change my shortcut I have to manually re-import (or copy/paste) it to all the other locations I need it ... no good :(

I'm *really* hoping URC hasn't abandoned shortcuts, that I'm just too dense to figure out how to do it in the new editor - lil' help?

A shortcut is the same as a single step macro. If you create a macro called "ALL OFF" you want to reference in many places simply do the following.

Create the button in the new location, click record, navigate to your "ALL OFF" macro and select it. Click save and you're done. Now the macro on that button references the "ALL OFF" macro.

I use these all the time on the MX-900 and TX-1000 and it accomplishes the same thing as a shortcut.

Aha! THANK YOU ... that makes total sense, I'm saved ;)

So "importing a macro" is different than this, eh? Yes, now that you 'splain it I can see how.

Another question - how is "macro import" different than, say, copying & pasting the macro? Or is it the same thing?

Importing a macro is the same as copying and pasting a macro.