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Scripting: Cloning an item

Toon.Broothaerts — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:58:37 GMT

Hello all,

When a Development Project enters a certain state in the workflow, a list of items (Launch Deliverables) should appear in a certain workspace. I know there is a way that I can those LD's via scripting, but the script will be very long and the ADMIN's are the only ones who can edit this script.

My question: Is it possible to create a workspace with the list of (model) Launch Deliverables and a script which 'clones' them into another workspace using a script, when the Development Project enters a certain state?

Thanks in advance

Re: Scripting: Cloning an item

philipfrench — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:43:23 GMT

I'm not 100% sure I understood your question, but you can simulate a full clone, by copying the fields, and perhaps the grid too.

Here is some example that might help.

The scenario here is that one item is creating a copy of itself.

It has 100+ fields, and I copy them in a loop, to the new copy.

I then copy the rows in the grid too.

The copy workspace also has fields that point back to the original, I set these line 7.

Lines 8,9,10 I am capturing the time, and the customTransID (location in the workflow that is triggering this cloning)

Line 11 - finally on the item, I set a link (multi-value pick-list) to track the copies that have been created.

Hope this helps.

BTW before anyone asks, the attachments array is read only. You can do nothing with attachments in javascript, except read their meta data.

Re: Scripting: Cloning an item

J_Dug — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:15:24 GMT

This is fantastic! You've just saved me hours of scripting to spawn an item via conventional means!

Re: Scripting: Cloning an item

philipfrench — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:33:18 GMT

Awesome!