topic Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element? in ArcGIS Experience Builder Questions

Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

BrianBaldwin — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:54:24 GMT

So far, Experience Builder has been great - but there is one enhancement that would help a lot.

Could we get the ability to duplicate elements?

In the example below I have configured the heights, spacing, backgrounds, etc. for the Column and child rows and I want to have the same settings for a column element below it. It would be a great feature if a user could simply 'select' a group of elements and then duplicate or copy it.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

DavidMartinez — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 05:43:42 GMT

Hi Brian,

Absolutely, this is on our roadmap.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

BrianBaldwin — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:24:11 GMT

Thanks so much for the quick reply David Martinez‌! Really looking forward to that feature.

FYI Patrick Huls‌

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

Dunn_Jeremy — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:35:57 GMT

Morning David

What's the best way to clone a web app from experience builder so that another user has ownership of it and all it's reference content ?

Regards.

Jeremy.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

DavidMartinez — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:51:49 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

If the user is in your organization and you have admin rights you can change the ownership for each item under my content. Another option is to use the python api to use the reassign_to method to change the other user. I guess my question is are you looking just to clone or change ownership? If change ownership you can do the above. If you need to clone there is a clone method in the python API. However, I noticed there are issues when the experience has images. The last time I used that method it had some issues with SVG. You could try that method and see if it works.

Cheers,

David

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

ShariForbes — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:27:29 GMT

Do you know if there has been any movement on this? I'd like to copy a perfectly beautiful row layout onto other pages.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

ShengdiZhang — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 03:27:34 GMT

Hi @ShariForbes ,

You can click the duplicate button on the widget toolbar to duplicate a widget on the same page.

If you want to copy and paste widgets across different pages in one experience, you can select the widget and press Ctrl+C, and then select the target page and press Ctrl+V to paste the widget.

Regards,

Shengdi

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

GarySchells — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:23:49 GMT

I'm copying and pasting list widgets on to different views in the same xperience. However, each one needs a different filter. when I set the filter one one of the lists, it keeps applying that filter to all the others. Can anyone explain why this is happening and how I can get the correct filter on each list widget?

Thank you

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

hgdean — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:40:35 GMT

@ShengdiZhang I am having this issue as well. Is there a way to copy an element to a different view (i.e. desktop view to tablet view) and not have it retain a link to it's original version?

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

ShengdiZhang — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:52:41 GMT

I'm not sure I'm understanding the question correctly. If you only want to perform a filter action on one list and not the others, you can add a data view and use that data view in the filter widget and the list widget you want the filter action to affect. Filter actions on a data view do not affect other data views or the source data.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

chill_gis_dude — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:18:34 GMT

I think OP was asking about being able to copy from one experience to another, not just within pages of one experience?

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

TonghuiMing — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:00:12 GMT

Copying from one app to another is not doable in the OOTB features.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

chill_gis_dude — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:19:04 GMT

Is it something that can be requested via the ideas page or is it simply not possible? It would be a very useful functionality to be able to copy premade widgets from one experience to another. Can't imagine how much time it would save. I have some menu widgets with 30 different filters. Having to remake these as part of the workflow in creating new experiences almost renders it useless.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

TonghuiMing — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:34:17 GMT

@chill_gis_dude Currently, we do not have a clear plan to support this.

However, in your case, maybe you could try to save the original app after configuring these filters as a new app ( the 'Save as' feature in the builder), and then create the second one upon that. The difference is copying an entire app versus the individual widgets.

Re: Ability to duplicate/copy an element?

chill_gis_dude — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:20:35 GMT

Thank you, I will give that a shot!