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Feature #12134

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Site cloning

Added by Colin McDonald over 4 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Resolved
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High
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Category name:
Site cloning
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Start date:
2019-11-22
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Description

Hello, starting a fresh ticket here to consolidate our discussions on this feature for the spring 2020 release. In the group meeting last Friday we narrowed down our plan for this.

We want to focus on sites for now as groups have many more content types. And our main use case will be professors looking to clone their own sites, i.e. for a new semester's class. There may be a side use case where a professor clones their site for someone else (like someone teaching another section), but the main idea is that we're not doing shared cloning where someone can clone any site they'd like. There are a lot of technical and permissions issues there. The cloning will be initiated by a current admin of the site, and they'll be the admin of the clone (which they could then invite a new admin to).

We need to talk about what will and won't be carried over when cloning. We don't want people to have to go back and delete a bunch of things on the clone to get it ready, or of course for student content to be carried over (for privacy reasons, but also to have a clean slate for new students).

Other questions are whether cloned pages should be in draft form first or live, and whether plugins are carried over as well. Boone, do you have any opinions about those, or about how we might set cloning up as sort of a branch of the Wordpress Import/Export feature where you choose different types of content to be carried over?

Once we hash out a few more technical questions here, and anything else I'm forgetting, Sonja perhaps we could talk about how this might be best designed for people to make use of it.


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Cloning-UI-v1.png (379 KB) Cloning-UI-v1.png Sonja Leix, 2019-12-11 07:20 PM
Cloning-menu-item-v1.png (337 KB) Cloning-menu-item-v1.png Sonja Leix, 2019-12-11 07:20 PM
A-Cloning-option-frontend-v1.png (129 KB) A-Cloning-option-frontend-v1.png Sonja Leix, 2019-12-11 07:20 PM
Peek 2019-12-17 13-25.gif (1.64 MB) Peek 2019-12-17 13-25.gif Boone Gorges, 2019-12-17 02:41 PM
12134 Site Cloning-flow-v2.pdf (1.34 MB) 12134 Site Cloning-flow-v2.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-01-07 12:25 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v3.pdf (1.4 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v3.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-01-15 08:37 AM
Clone-site-flow–design-v4.pdf (1.37 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v4.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-01-24 07:02 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v5.pdf (1.37 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v5.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-01-27 08:05 PM
group-site-2.png (147 KB) group-site-2.png Colin McDonald, 2020-01-28 09:37 AM
group-site-1.png (169 KB) group-site-1.png Colin McDonald, 2020-01-28 09:37 AM
Clone-site-flow–design-v6.pdf (1.78 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v6.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-01-30 07:58 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v7.pdf (1.79 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v7.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-02-04 02:17 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v8.pdf (1.78 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v8.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-02-04 08:04 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v9.pdf (1.89 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v9.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-02-10 10:13 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v10.pdf (1.89 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v10.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-02-12 03:44 PM
Clone-site-flow–design-v11.pdf (1.88 MB) Clone-site-flow–design-v11.pdf Sonja Leix, 2020-02-26 12:32 PM
icon-caution.svg (942 Bytes) icon-caution.svg SVG : caution icon Sonja Leix, 2020-03-05 01:49 PM
Screenshot 2020-05-12 00.47.57.png (97.7 KB) Screenshot 2020-05-12 00.47.57.png Sonja Leix, 2020-05-12 02:48 AM

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