Duplicate existing group

Hi Jeroen. To be clear, what do you need to duplicate? A group's theme (including its theme selection, theme configuration, page layouts, and widget configurations) should have been copyable with the export/import. The group's settings itself are not part of the theme, and that could be scripted via the API. Do you also need to copy content? Permissions? How far are you going? Most of this should be possible via the API in a repeatable way - perhaps making something of a template - but it depends on the scope of "copy and paste".

Hi Jeroen. To be clear, what do you need to duplicate? A group's theme (including its theme selection, theme configuration, page layouts, and widget configurations) should have been copyable with the export/import. The group's settings itself are not part of the theme, and that could be scripted via the API. Do you also need to copy content? Permissions? How far are you going? Most of this should be possible via the API in a repeatable way - perhaps making something of a template - but it depends on the scope of "copy and paste".

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your answer.

Preferably we would like to duplicate an existing group including all underlying settings/templates/permissions.

This so we don't have to do everything over and over again when we need to create a new group.

Got it, so not content then. Unfortunately, there isn't an out-of-the-box way to do this bundled up as a button. But the API would support this. 

It would be possible, for example, to write a fairly small widget that lets you select a group to clone (or just use the current contextual group) and then creates a new group using the Create Group API matching as many parameters as are reasonable to the previous group. A tiny bit of effort, but could save time if you're creating a lot of these groups.

Thank you Michael I'll ask our development team to take a look at this. Is the Rest API standard part of the installation or should it be installed separately?

The API is a, supported, built-in component of all Community installations, and is made available in three ways: REST, from scripts like widgets or themes (or automations in 11), or from in-process .NET-based plugins. For more detail, I'd recommend the developer documentation.