Duplicating records?

Re: [s2smedia] Duplicating records?

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:59:51 -0800

Hi,

There shouldn't be any CSS files that come with the plugin. You should be able to upload the entire folder to the cmsAdmin/plugins folder, then activate the plugin through CMS Builder.

Hope this helps

Re: [sublmnl] Duplicating records?

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:00:20 -0800

thanks.. i have the most recent beta 2.14

what do I do with the css file thats in the plugin download folder?

Re: [s2smedia] Duplicating records?

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:38:35 -0800

It goes in your plugins folder in the cmsAdmin directory on the server. Then log into the general settings / plugins and you have to 'turn it on' by activating it. I do know it only works with certain versions up. Can't remember the number off the top of my head though.
hope that helps

Re: [sublmnl] Duplicating records?

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:34:28 -0800

How do you install this plugin?

Re: [Jason] Duplicating records?

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:14:30 -0800

Jason, not sure if you are referring to me in the question, but yes the Save a Copy does work. Thankfully I found the plugin installation instructions. I've had that plugin for a bit just didn't know where to put it and forgot about it.

In order to copy a record - you have to completely fill out your record and save it and in order to actually COPY the record. So essentially you are closing it out and going back to the list page in the CMS, then you click modify on the desired record-to-be-copied, then click Save a Copy.
Or else some funky stuff happens.

Its not like when you are saving a copy of a field in an editor, you can do that without backing out so to say.

Thx!

Re: [sublmnl] Duplicating records?

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:11:41 -0800

Hi,

Is this working for you now? Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks

Re: [sublmnl] Duplicating records?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:27:25 -0800

Would be great is this also added a "Duplicate" link in the list view, next to View | Modify | Erase

:)

Re: [Jason] Duplicating records?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:01:03 -0800

Thanks Jason, and that looks familiar...
And I remember why I couldn't use it.
Until I found this post today.

thanks!

Re: [sublmnl] Duplicating records?

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:33:18 -0800

Hi,

We have a user submitted plugin that creates the "Save & Copy" button and functionality for you:

http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/detail.php?Save-Copy-Button-1030

Hope this helps

Re: [kevbarker] Duplicating records?

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:15:09 -0800

    
               name="action=save" 
          value=""  
          onclick="document.getElementById('num').value=''; document.getElementById('preSaveTempId').value='1234567890abc'"  
          class="button" />  
          $buttonsRight  = '';
      $buttonsRight .= "\n";
      if ($previewUrl) {
        $buttonsRight .= "\n";
      }
      $buttonsRight .= "\n";
      $buttonsRight  = applyFilters('edit_buttonsRight', $buttonsRight, $tableName, $GLOBALS['RECORD']);
      echo $buttonsRight;
    ?>

This kind of works.
Perhaps its the newer version of CMSB. I noticed that your code is a little different than the above which is what I have.
I have to make the image upload field not required in order to make a copy.
Dave can you update this?

THanks

Re: [Dave] Duplicating records?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:38:08 -0700

Talk about perfect timing! I just had a client who asked for this capability so I tried this and it works great!

Thanks Dave!

Kevin

Re: [Dave] Duplicating records?

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:41:54 -0700

Here's an (unsupported) hack I wrote up to add a "Save as Copy" button to the bottom left of the edit page.

It doesn't support uploads or all the field types but worked for this case. I'm posting in here in case it turns out to be useful for someone else as well.

- Create a backup copy of /lib/menus/default/edit.php
- Open /lib/menus/default/edit.php
- Search for showWysiwygGeneratorCode
- Add the code in red (about 15 lines above showWysiwygGeneratorCode)



  


 
             onclick="document.getElementById('num').value=''; document.getElementById('preSaveTempId').value='1234567890abc'"
          class="inputButton" />
    
   
                onclick="window.location='?menu='" />

Update: This version works for 2.00+ - search for _action=save

  

             name="action=save"
          value="" 
          onclick="document.getElementById('num').value=''; document.getElementById('preSaveTempId').value='1234567890abc'" 
          class="button" />

Re: [blukabm] Duplicating records?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:11:40 -0700

Hi blukabm,

It can (as we're discussing over email) - another option might be to try and find a bookmarklet tool that would let you save the form data and re-output it.

I did a google search for "copy form values bookmarklet"
http://www.google.com/search?q=copy+form+values+bookmarklet

and found this site:
http://www.benjaminkeen.com/software/bookmarklet_generator/

I don't know if that will do exactly what you need or not but I thought it might be worth a look.

Hope that helps!

Re: [Dave] Duplicating records?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:46:41 -0700

Is that something that could be added through the custom programming option? If so, we may look into that.

Thanks!

Re: [blukabm] Duplicating records?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:43:53 -0700

There's currently no automatic way to do that.

Another approach might be to set the default values for the fields in the field editor so when you create a new record it starts with those values.

Hope that helps!

Duplicating records?

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:20:27 -0700

I am curious if there is currently a way to duplicate a record. That way I could modify the copied record instead of creating a new one and re-entering data that won't change much.

Thanks!