Changing item name

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Is there a way to change an item name in PaperUI or Habmin? In PaperUI, when I click on an item, I can change the label, but not the name. In Habmin, when I click on an item, I can’t change anything.

In OH1, I manually created a .items file. In OH2, I was able to use PaperUI to set up all things/items. Where does the final item configuration file reside? Can I somehow take that and use it as my .items file (in /etc/openhab2/items), replacing all the setup I did through PaperUI? That way, it is easier for me to change the item names.

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Yes you can do that. On the Paper UI Things listing, pick the channel of the item you want to put in items file. There is a text name for the channel and, underneath that, a technical description like “zwave:device:8426aca6:node16:switch_binary”. If you click the clipboard icon immediately to the right of that, it copies the detail to the clipboard. You can paste that directly into a {channel=…} "phrase in an items file.