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storytheaterco
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March 5, 2015 at 5:13 am
I have verified this is the case several times.
When clicking “Duplicate Event” on an event in EE3, the following status comes up:
“has been successfully copied. You are now editing the copy.”
This is incorrect. You are actually editing the original. I was on ID of 7 when I hit duplicate, and when everything finished loading for the duplicate, I was editing ID 7 again.
This should really be changed to forward to the copy, or change the wording to say “the original.”
I can provide a video of me duplicating an event if it would help. 🙂 Thanks!
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Tony
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March 5, 2015 at 5:39 am
Hi Troy,
Are you looking at the URL to confirm the Event ID?
When I duplicate an event, the ID in the URL stays the same but once the event has been updated the URL will change.
For example, here is my original event – http://take.ms/5dETY (Event ID = 1836)
Now I click duplicate and see the message you are referring to – http://take.ms/B98W1
Notice the ID in the URL is the same, I’ll make some changes – http://take.ms/mlX8v
Now push the updates, the page will reload with those changes and you’ll have the new ID in the URL – http://take.ms/Tpk7X (Note the ID is now 1837)
Now I’ll go back to the Event Overview and check the original (I added both those Events to a Category after doing the above so I could load them together) – http://take.ms/mKBUa
Original Event is still the same as before – http://take.ms/Xa3N7
Duplicate has all its own changes – http://take.ms/Ksdub
You can confirm this by duplicating an event, changing something small (such as adding ‘1’ to the event name) and updating the event.
Then go to the event overview to find your new event has been created and your original remains.
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storytheaterco
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March 5, 2015 at 5:41 am
Yep, as I mentioned in my post I am looking at the ID.
Look at the status label that appears. “You are now editing the copy” – when in fact you are still editing the original ID.
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storytheaterco
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March 5, 2015 at 5:44 am
I see what you are saying, and that may be the case. But to have the ID of the original on the screen, but actually editing the copy, it is confusing.
It would be better to take the user to the actual duplicated event and edit that, IMHO.
I guess it isn’t technically incorrect … but it is confusing. If you are indeed editing the duplicate, it should show the duplicate ID in the URL, not the original. Would be logical.
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storytheaterco
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March 5, 2015 at 5:46 am
Thanks for the response, it clears it up, I will try it and see what happens. I just pay close attention to the ID in the URL to make sure I am editing the correct thing. And with it showing the original ID, I didn’t want to risk messing something up. 🙂
Thanks again. 🙂
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Tony
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March 5, 2015 at 6:02 am
No problem 🙂
I do agree that the original Event ID within the URL could cause some confusion, I believe that was the reason the message was added to try and help clear that up.
In the previous version of EE3 when you clicked duplicate you were taken to the Event Overview containing only the original event. We changed this to the current behaviour to allow the user to duplicate and directly edit the duplicate event with minimal effort.
I’ll create a ticket to see if we can update the URL.
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