5.5 is great - Is it possible to duplicate a stack?
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I am working on a new site that has a side bar with lots of the same blocks. In some instances, however, those blocks contain different content or a different image.
Is it possible to copy a stack, rename it and then make the small changes that are necessary?
Also, suppose I'm working on a page and create a sidebar that I'd like to put into a stack. It does not appear that I can paste clip board content into a stack. That ability would really speed up building stacks.
I see a lot of complaints about the new stacks in the forum. I disagree, stacks are very cool!
Is it possible to copy a stack, rename it and then make the small changes that are necessary?
Also, suppose I'm working on a page and create a sidebar that I'd like to put into a stack. It does not appear that I can paste clip board content into a stack. That ability would really speed up building stacks.
I see a lot of complaints about the new stacks in the forum. I disagree, stacks are very cool!
I also am enjoying using the new Stacks - but this feature to duplicate would be very useful.
I agree. It would be very helpful to copy a stack. I did find that if you show system pages in the full sitemap, that the stacks show up as pages. I would think from there there should be an easy way to duplicate, but I have not yet found one. But my search continues!
Bump! I could do with this feature for a site I'm working on at the moment.
I need this feature!
Bump bump!
Current client's site is full of very similar stacks, in most cases the buttons used in the stacks just need to be linked to different pages. Surprised to discover there's still no way to copy/duplicate stacks.
Another suggestion might be to have local stacks, that become unique to that page once you add them. That way I could drop the stack in, set it to local then change the blocks within it that I need without it affecting every other stack of the same type.
Current client's site is full of very similar stacks, in most cases the buttons used in the stacks just need to be linked to different pages. Surprised to discover there's still no way to copy/duplicate stacks.
Another suggestion might be to have local stacks, that become unique to that page once you add them. That way I could drop the stack in, set it to local then change the blocks within it that I need without it affecting every other stack of the same type.
maze, you may be able to do this by setting up your blocks the way you want them in the "defaults" area of your page type. You could even make a new page type and use it as if it is a stack in one sense. Then if you modify any of those blocks on a single page, they do become "local" to that page. Whereas if you modify the blocks in the default page it will change all of the pages that have not been "localized."
I've written a blog post about how you'd duplicate a stack if you have access to the database:http://www.adrikodde.nl/blog/2013/how-duplicate-concrete5-stack/...
