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<h1>Propertycopy</h1>
<p>Copies the value of a named property to another property. This
is useful when you need to plug in the value of another property
in order to get a property name and then want to get the value of
that property name.</p>
<h2>Parameters</h2>
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<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Required</th>
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<td valign="top">property</td>
<td valign="top">The name of the property to set.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
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<td valign="top">override</td>
<td valign="top">If the property is already set, should we change it's value.
Can be <code>true</code> or <code>false</code></td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No. Defaults to <code>false</code></td>
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<td valign="top">name <i>Deprecated</i></td>
<td valign="top">The name of the property to set.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No. Use the <code>property</code> attribute
instead</td>
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<td valign="top">from</td>
<td valign="top">The name of the property you wish to copy the
value from.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
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<td valign="top">silent</td>
<td valign="top">Do you want to suppress the error if the
&quot;from&quot; property does not exist, and just not set the
property &quot;name&quot;.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default is &quot;false&quot;.</td>
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<h2>Example</h2>
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&lt;property name=&quot;org&quot; value=&quot;MyOrg&quot; /&gt;
&lt;property name=&quot;org.MyOrg.DisplayName&quot; value=&quot;My Organiziation&quot; /&gt;
&lt;propertycopy name=&quot;displayName&quot; from=&quot;org.${org}.DisplayName&quot; /&gt;
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<p>Sets <code>displayName</code> to &quot;My
Organiziation&quot;.</p>
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