We’ve had a number of ways to copy a doc in our product for some time. You can copy a doc from your workspace doc list, from the title of a doc or from the “Copy Doc” call to action on published docs with copying enabled.
But at Coda, one of our values is “Right over Familiar.”
And we couldn’t ignore the trend we saw in docs published to the Doc Gallery where the author includes some text explaining how to copy their doc so that a reader may use and customize it. So today, we’re adding another option for copying docs that can live in-line with your text, tables and views: a “Copy Doc” button type.
You can insert and configure this button just as you would other buttons like “Add Row,” "Notify User,” and “Open Hyperlink.” It is available for insertion via the / command as well as the Explore panel.
You can use the Copy Doc button type in private docs, docs you use to collaborate with your team or published docs. As with other buttons, users will need to sign in to Coda in order to interact with the copy doc button.
We hope this makes it even more intuitive for your doc viewers and editors to know when and how to copy your great docs!
This is an interesting feature!
Could some other action be done before the copy?
Then one could generate different docs from just one!
i’m thinking that for me this could be game-changer because my users could have their “app” localized in their language while copying it! or different user could have different data into the copied version!
I want more about this
UPDATE: yeah this can be done using other button obv
This is really useful thanks!!!
Update 2: it works also in “published” mode, this is amazing, for me it’s basically an auto-reset, pre-copy configurator
(p.s. it works also with the “disable copy” option turned on, in future some sort of block would be precious )
I’d love to be able to have an internal template gallery for my company and have the ability to choose some predefined templates as slash commands that we can use.
But in lieu of that, having the ability to create our own gallery / directory using the copy other doc feature would be a good start.
@David.Greenwood yeah you are possibly right
It’s not a problem to deal with those options now, but in future when public doc (docs with mainly non-coda users) will be more popular a more precise control should be integrated in my opinion
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