More and more, I’m running into situations where I need to deep copy an entity and its children / grandchildren (structure and content). Typically, this is a project in a space, where I want a second (third etc) instance of that project in the same space. The data hierarchy is: project 1:M section…

Duplicate action nows deep copy entities [image] April 16, 2026 / gorilla Automatically link entities with more operators, Text color in rich text, Filter and sort relation selectors in Forms, Share with all users with a particular email domain Changelog A bul…

Search this forum for “clone” for additional discussion. A real, general purpose cloner/“deep copy” script for Fibery is very complex - I have written one that is over 550 lines long, and it still has limitations and tradeoffs. Fibery automations have hard limits on CPU and runtime, which limits …

Matt, Thx for the quick reply. I am fully aware that Fibery’s unopinionated design translates to complexity for sth like a generalized deep copy. But I don’t think that negates the need for this function. But on the other hand, I don’t see how a fairly straightforward project tracker like mine (pr…

I think what you ask its not so complicated to accomplish in a script, see for example Entity Migration Script: Hierarchical Data Transfer Between Databases which is not your use case but somewhat related. You may be lucky this time, last week I did some work in creating pattern template maps as I …

Yuri, Thx so much! This is darn close to what I’m trying to achieve (although I think your scripts go far beyond my basic requirements). My situation is relatively straightforward - I have n projects, each project has a 1:M relation to sections, and each section has a 1:M relation to tasks. Maybe …

[image] IMTanuki: But on the other hand, I don’t see how a fairly straightforward project tracker like mine (project 1:M section 1:M task) can be automatically created for each new project, other than exporting/importing an extire space, which I think undermines the space-project concept. If …

Hey Chris, Thx for jumping in to clarify. Yeah, I’m not trying to create a general purpose deep copy - as we’ve discussed in the past, given Fibery’s almost limitless configurability, that would definately be above my pay grade… :grinning: But in my case, a very narrowly focused copy function tha…

@Matt_Blais Thank you! This may take me a little bit to work thru all the code you and @Yuri_BC provided, but I’m confident I’ll end up with the solution I need. This is great - this makes Fibery a complete solution for 99% of my use cases… :grinning: Cheers

Thx @Matt_Blais @Yuri_BC , @Chr1sG for all your insights and examples. I’m half way thru my code - my different db’s are sufficiently different that I need to write a special branch to read/write fields based on the db in my hierarchy, but I don’t think it should be a big deal. This is going to make…

@IMTanuki do you have a feature request for this? I came across Airtable’s Template feature today and want to share how it works with the Fibery team for consideration.

Intra-Space Deep Copy

Get Help

Matt_Blais April 15, 2024, 7:17pm 8

@IMTanuki Also see this post for a basic cloner script.

Topic		Replies	Views
Deep Copy (within a space) Fibery Showcase	2	153	May 2, 2024
Clone parent and child records Get Help	4	52	April 16, 2026
Deep Copy (intra-space) Ideas & Features	6	197	May 9, 2024
Copy file to another entity Get Help files	11	535	October 30, 2025
Generic cloning of a hierarchy Fibery Showcase	10	367	May 10, 2024

Intra-Space Deep Copy

Related topics