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Key: CONF-3191
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: James Strachan
Votes: 61
Watchers: 23
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easily create a copy of an entire space

Created: 09/May/05 08:41 PM   Updated: 26/May/08 06:09 AM
Component/s: Backup / Restore
Affects Version/s: 1.4
Fix Version/s: None

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Environment: I'm using the codehaus install
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Participants: David Soul [Atlassian], Don Willis [Atlassian], Doods Perea, James Strachan, Mike Barrett, Orion Letizi, Othman Alaoui, Rick Cogley, Simon Wheatley and Teemu Matilainen
Since last comment: 39 weeks, 1 day ago
Support reference count: 4
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It'd be really very handy to be able to duplicate a space. Export/import only works on 1 space I think (it seems to have lots of integer ids in there so I dare not try exporting, twiddling things and reimporting).

What would be really nice would be a 'copy space' option where you can duplicate an entire space as a different name/key.

e.g. setting up projects at codehaus; it'd be good to use an existing space as a base, then copy the entire thing, then after that either export/import to search/replace, or just manually modify pages after that.



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Teemu Matilainen added a comment - 12/Oct/05 08:07 AM
This seems to be a duplicate of CONF-2814 and related to CONF-2931.

Mike Barrett added a comment - 18/Nov/05 12:00 AM
Yes, this would be an incredibly useful feature. I'm glad that there is at least some Page-Copy functionality in 2.0, but there are definately additional useful Copy-related features that could be added.

Space copy, during which you could specify whether you want to just grab Pages + attachments, or limit the copy in other ways. For instance, I may want to just create a duplicate Space with permissions setup. Or a Space with all pages + content + attachments, but no comments or news or mail.

Another useful thing would be an option to copy a page, but at the same time copy all decendant pages beneath it. This would require a bit more work, as a UI of some sort for creating unique new page names would be implemented. Another option would be a choice to append some text to the start or end of each page title, like "new" or "copy of."

along this line, perhaps deleteing an entire tree of pages from the top level. Maybe these should be moved to a new issue...


Rick Cogley added a comment - 10/Dec/06 06:09 PM
Agree totally. There should be a way to clone a whole space easily, with a way to specify a group for security as well.

If I have a new customer called ACME, I want to:

  • Create a project space from my templated space structure
  • Make a group called ACME and assign some default permission set to the new project space

That would be really nice.

Kind regards,
Rick


David Soul [Atlassian] added a comment - 05/Mar/07 10:03 PM
There are two distinct feature requests open relating to copying space content.
  • CONF-3191 will allow you to copy all pages, news and comments in a space, including space themes and colour schemes. It cannot be used to copy part of a space only.
  • CONF-2814 to copy any hierarchy of pages easily to another existing space.

Please be sure to vote towards the issue/s that most closely matches your needs.

David Soul


Orion Letizi added a comment - 08/Mar/07 09:31 AM
This would be extremely useful to me. I regularly need to snapshot a space and make a copy of it available under a different spacename. The export/import workaround is a total hack that I shouldn't have to do. Confluence should do it for me.

Othman Alaoui added a comment - 08/Mar/07 10:39 AM
not to mention that the hack is really rather broken as we found out recently (and yes have notified Atlassian of it).

David Soul [Atlassian] added a comment - 26/Apr/07 01:48 AM
The ability to copy a space comes up frequently in customer requests, such as when setting up new projects. Refer to sales@atlassian.com email exchange with housevalues.com for an example

Doods Perea added a comment - 05/Sep/07 04:05 PM
Cloning a space would be an excellent feature that will be very useful for companies like ours that create the same structure for our various clients. This feature should have the option of copying or not copying the attachment document(s)>

Don Willis [Atlassian] added a comment - 13/Dec/07 05:26 PM
I wrote a plugin to attempt this feature over a couple of fedex days: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Copy+Space+Plugin
It's not perfect but it will be useful to some of you. Although not formally tested, we have been using it to archive documentation spaces on confluence.atlassian.com for about 8 months. My apologies for not updating the issue earlier.

Simon Wheatley added a comment - 07/Jan/08 06:39 AM
It would be great to have a reliable and non-beta way of doing this. I'm using the copy-space plugin to copy live content into a development space, but it makes me nervous when I'm using kit which is labelled "beta" and "may break" so loudly.