Option to do a shallow copy when duplicating (copy/paste) a page
Currently when copying a page all nested items have copies created as well, including: 1) child pages but also any 2) shared blocks within the page content. I would like options to skip the "deep copy" that happens for child pages and shared blocks whenever a copy/paste is done. The shared blocks is especially a problem. Since copying a page creates separate duplicates of the shared blocks, it requires manual work to go in and delete the duplicated shared blocks and re-insert the reference to the original. This feels pretty antithetical to the point of shared blocks: keeping a single instance across many pages to make changes at scale easier.
Choosing to skip copying child pages would be a nice extra, but especially being able to leave the references of shared blocks as is instead of duplicating them would be a really big improvement to our workflow.
Kurt R.
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Craig Mazer
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The child-page part of this matters to us on its own, so we've posted a separate idea focused on it: letting authors choose parent-only or parent plus children, and how many levels deep. https://feedback.optimizely.com/forums/964785-cms-saas-content-management-system/suggestions/51740606-choose-whether-to-copy-child-pages-and-how-many-l — Tracking shared-block references here and the child-page option there should make each easier to act on.
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Shea [not provided]
commented
This is highly important for users with large profiles and templated sites to be able to quickly stand up new partners and manage at scale!