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Nelson
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10/30/14 10:40 AM (9 years ago)

Ultimate Screen Creator duplicate several times with different names

I love this Plugin it is fantastic. I like to be able to create an initial model with the right buttons in the right place and then duplicate that same sreen with a different name, to be faster. Is it possible? Nelson
 
chris1
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10/30/14 12:02 PM (9 years ago)
Possible, yes - as long as you don't mind looking at some scary looking text for a brief couple of seconds :) Create the "template" screen first. Then, go back to the "screens" page on your control panel. Find the screen you just created using the Ultimate Screen Creator, but don't click on it. Instead, click on that small icon that looks like </> at the bottom right of the icon. It should bring up a pop-up with a bunch of scary looking text in it. The first few lines of text will have properties of "itemId", "itemType", and "itemNickname". Copy everything *below* those three lines. Next, create a new screen using the USC plugin and go back to the 'screens' page. Do the same thing, right-clicking on the </> icon for that new screen. Delete everything *below* those three lines and paste in what you copied from the other screen. You should now have a duplicate.
 
Nelson
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10/30/14 12:41 PM (9 years ago)
Yes Chris this definitely is a MustHavePlugin. Thank you. Nelson
 
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10/30/14 07:10 PM (9 years ago)
Chris- Thanks for the tip. seems obvious now ;) Sure will save a ton of time!!! I copied a screen which was so much faster now. I noticed that the row information for Table items were not copied. Does that mean that it won't work for child items?
 
chris1
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10/30/14 08:02 PM (9 years ago)
correct - child items for a table will not be copied over via this approach. Sorry - not much you can do about that without some good ol' fashioned php work on a self-hosted server.
 
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10/31/14 07:20 PM (9 years ago)
Better late than never -- like the profile picture, Chris! :-)
 

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