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Allow to duplicate Forms
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I have created several (and similar) forms and it would be great to allow to duplicate them because most of the options (visibility, field order, default values) are almost the same

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Sorry I'll try to describe the problem better.

The problem is that I cannot duplicate an existing "Maniphest Tasks" form.

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I have created 7 forms, all of them very similar and would have been great to have that simple feature: to duplicate a form.

I would suggest to add an option like "Duplicate Form" in the "Edit Form" screen:

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This doesn't explain the root problem we require for feature requests. Please see Contributing Feature Requests and Describing Root Problems. We don't expect people to need to make so many forms, we don't know why you're creating so many forms, we don't know what number that is on say a weekly basis, and so forth. We also have upcoming products like Nuance that might be better suited for your workflow. Please please please... only file feature requests stating the problem (and not the solution) you are having with Phabricator.

Well it's not a real problem if you see like that. It was only a suggestion. Of course I can live without that.

It is only a... let's say a "helper" to make things simpler if you need to create a new form based on an existing form. Just that. I needed to create 7 forms because at the company, we are adopting your excelent solution (Phabricator) and I have several departments in the company, each one with different fields, visibility, spaces, etc...

Of course it's not an important thing but I missed that option using your product and I thought you would be happy to have that feedback (I'm also a software developer and I'm always very happy to have feedback).

I have more things and ideas that maybe you can think about or try to incorporate, but seems like you don't like this kind of feeback...

The solution I proposed was only a suggestion (as I said) just to help. Of course you can do it the way you want (it's your software!!!). It was only a suggestion from my point of view, nothing else.

Believe me, I understand all that rules when submitting feature requests, as I said before I'm also developer and I have the same problem when people fillout bugs and requests but I don't think it's good to be so strict not allowing real users in their real environments to express also their ideal solution...

Just to provide some more information, filling this feature request I realised that I like the fact that you have created two different forms (Bug and Feature Request) with the tags preassigned to avoid people "forgetting" to tag them.

So now I'm going to create 7 more forms (remember I have 7 forms, one for each department) to split the actual ones into "Bug" and "Feature Request".

And believe me, it takes some time to create 7 forms going through all the options (visibility, order, permissions, etc...). It would have been much much more simple to duplicate the existing ones and change the name and the tag, that's it.

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Thanks for the suggestion, we'll keep this task around if there is further interest we can always reopen.