Duplicating Pages in a Workspace?

Question

I may be missing something really obvious, but I don't see a way to make a copy of an existing page in a workspace. Aside from wanting to quickly make a new page which is similar in content and layout to a page I already have, my main reason for duplicating the page is that I have created several "label groups" (for "Label" column types in a table on a page) and those same "label groups" do not appear to be available on any other pages - they seem to only exist on that one page? Am I missing another obvious thing of being able to make my "label groups" available in other pages within a workspace? Or across all workspaces in Loop?

[note: I am also creating another Question here related to making labeling groups available workspace/Loop-wide]

Answer 1

I'm sorry that I don't have an answer to this but I wanted to add a comment.

This seems like such a basic function that...

1. I'm surprised you can't copy a page without it being linked to the original
2. Unable to create a template for frequently used page styles
3. That any of this functionality (or lack thereof) isn't being called out in their documentation.

Its one thing to not include something as basic as page copy/template creation in the app, but then not to address it in documentation so the user starts to question their own sanity (which I have as well) is just... crazy.

Every single person who uses this app is going to have this very question. Why not just address it by saying you can't do it so we don't spend hours looking at videos and reading countless web pages to no avail because surely... there is a copy function... !?

Answer 2

Without this basic feature, MS Loop goes from a good product to an almost useless one.

Answer 3

Yep crazy this is missing, such a basic must have requirement

Answer 4

I totaly agree! I will stop using it until its fixed!

Answer 5

Create a page (page 1), add stuff to it, then make one or more copies of it in order to not have to manually make page 2, page 3, page 4 and THEN copy and paste the contents (one at a time) from page 1 to pages 2, 3 and 4. Like, make a copy of an existing page so now you have two pages containing the same content.

Here's a scenario. I am doing fiscal year planning. I have a page for this fiscal year. I have put the necessary actions my group needs to take to assess the budget, check with various groups, assess purchases, blah blah. We do this every year and sometimes work on multiple FYs at once. I would like to make a page for this fiscal year with all the routine actions on it (this is what ArthurGuepe7007 would refer to as a Template), and then duplicate the page many times thus creating a separate page for each subsequent fiscal year. Each page takes on a life of its own after that with different data and updates and actions and such, BUT they all start the same way. Can't I just copy an existing page to make a new one from that starting point?

Don't get me wrong, love Loop - but would love it more if this were an option. I am certain that, since this is not already a thing, it is HIGHLY complex under the hood to replicate a page since pages are probably not really pages, but rather collections of pointers to chunks of text and editable/shared Loop components in the Dataverse. So, maybe this isn't possible fundamentally. But just asking.