1. A method for configuring an industrial automation control or monitoring device, comprising: establishing a network interconnection between the device and a remote computer, the device being configured to carry out an industrial automation operation by execution of a device object on the device; receiving on the remote computer a user-viewable interface screen from the device; receiving a user selection of data in the user-viewable interface screen on the remote computer; accessing properties of the device object enumerated based upon the selection; and copying the selected data from the user-viewable interface screen to a memory space on the remote computer, selected data corresponding to properties of the object separated by delimiters in the copied data.