Feature to duplicate article completely

Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by Patrick-M
accepted
article duplicate duplication copy/paste

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

The current article copy feature is nice, but it states explicitly that it does not copy everything.

Feature suggestion : allow to copy all the text from all the fields when duplicating an article (including all specific fields, headers, footers, ...)

Why? Use case example: I use articles for sessions reports (it is an article type). I use most of the fields from the session report ("Rewards granted", "Mission completed", "Date", "Primary Location", "Related Plots", ...) It makes sense that many special fields can be very similar from one session to another. And these are not specific, it can be "scattered" all around the specific fields.

 

How does this feature request address the current situation?

Current situation : even with the current "duplicate article" feature, we need to open 2 windows side by side, and make roughly 15-20 copy/paste to duplicate an article then edit what needs to be edited which is specific to the copied article.

 

What are other uses for this feature request?

I explicitly showed the example of the typed article Session report but it can benefit to all types of articles.

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! Full duplication of articles will not be implemented due to technical constraints, but we'll look into expanding the duplication feature so it includes all text fields. Article relationship fields will most likely not be included here.
Current score

24/300 Votes · +5900 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by Scott Story
    on 2026-02-15 00:16
    Yes! I’ve said this forever!
  • +300

    by Kyberian
    on 2026-02-14 19:45
  • +300

    by Ononomad
    on 2026-02-14 13:09
  • +100

    by LittleRaider
    on 2026-02-11 19:18
  • +100

    by Jupiter Melichios
    on 2026-02-09 22:07
  • +300

    by Rawilow
    on 2026-02-08 20:25
  • +100

    by ss2020
    on 2026-02-08 04:23
  • +300

    by AntiDX
    on 2026-02-07 08:55
  • +300

    by shyredfox
    on 2026-02-06 21:17
    YEs! I make event pages for our writing game and this would be really handy! I'd like it in the editor side, not having to go and copy the article from the reading side.
  • +300

    by Mystery Man
    on 2026-02-03 21:58
  • +300

    by Sequ0ia
    on 2026-02-03 00:37
  • +100

    by TerminusV
    on 2026-02-01 05:28
  • +300

    by Lonnie makes mayhem
    on 2026-02-01 01:01
  • +100

    by AuraGuard
    on 2026-01-31 23:02
  • +300

    by MathuinDaBurr
    on 2026-01-30 13:10
  • +100

    by lil_rose18
    on 2026-01-29 17:44
  • +100

    by nnie
    on 2026-01-29 10:22
  • +300

    by Dragolithic
    on 2026-01-28 23:41
  • +300

    by Scalenex
    on 2026-01-28 03:33
  • +300

    by Those2Nerds
    on 2026-01-27 21:37
    I agree with Joella. It makes sense that we can't duplicate with the bi-directional links, but duplicating all text fields would be a huge help. I recently learned it doesn't duplicate base fields like Credits and Author's Notes.
  • +300

    by JetpackMonkey
    on 2026-01-27 18:27
  • +300

    by JoellaKay
    on 2026-01-27 17:39
    If it's too much work to handle the bi-directional database links, it would still be really helpful if you could copy the text fields. (That seems like it wouldn't be much of a performance hit.)
  • +100

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2026-01-27 16:54
  • +300

    by Comic Book Lady
    on 2026-01-27 16:47
  • +300

    by Patrick-M
    on 2026-01-27 09:16