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Ram Zorkot

• December 15, 2018 03:41

It would be great to have the ability to create a virtual copy of the bullet. This type of copy cannot be edited directly, only through the original. All shadow copies are in sync with the original. One bullet can have many shadow copies in different places.

I develop and design games and this feature will help me a lot in creating scripts, gaming systems, and descriptions.

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  Adam Pearson

  • December 15, 2018 13:52

  Good request - there are a few variations on this theme.

  I also think some kind of alias/shadow/clone/parent-child function would be massively useful.

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  Artur Ostapenko

  • December 16, 2018 14:18

  +1 for bullet clones 

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  Papa

  • December 17, 2018 10:17
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  Not sure to understand, what similarity is there between ""shadow copy", templates (as in PHPStorm or such) and word-like Styles?

  If you change "the original", does it apply to already-existing copies? (as it would if you update an Object Class for instance)? Or only the next copies?

  Edit: P.S. I mentioned word-like styles because you can link styles between them, such as defining that after "Title1" for example, when you press Enter then it switch to "chapeau" style , then "Title 2", then "Normal2", then "bullet 2", etc. Kind of template.

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  Ram Zorkot

  • December 17, 2018 15:22
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  Papa, it's only visual copy of a bullet (text content). When you edit the original – all shadow copies updates. I need it to create different lists of content from the same sources.

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  Max Yakin Bozek

  • December 17, 2018 15:59

  Have a look in the request history, there are many requests of this same concept explained with many different words as: "aliases", "instances", "clones", "duplicates", etc, etc. You should also vote those requests up so give them more preponderenace! This is a key functionality that WorkFlowy is really needing to implement ASAP so we can access the same bullet points from different places in our organizational structure.

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  Ram Zorkot

  • December 17, 2018 16:25

  Max, sure! 

  You can place links here, it will help a lot, because I found only a couple of similar topics and those are not exactly the same

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  Adam Pearson

  • December 17, 2018 16:39

  https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360001389746-Virtual-Instances-of-Bullet-point

  https://workflowy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006454646-Clone-alias-twin-feature-request

  quite a few scenarios and preferences explored in those two. (ok, the second one is just me, but hey...)

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  MR M S AAMER

  • March 02, 2019 16:58

  Hi 

  I have been waiting for this feature for ages, but since it hasn't been implemented I have found a workaround for it which isn't perfect but its better than nothing. Lets say you have a bullet and you need it to be in multiple places, just copy the link of the bullet and create an identical bullet in another location and place the link in the notes section, as shown below in the attachment. I find this works great for the above reasons.

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  Jim

  • November 16, 2019 03:07

  I didn't think it would work, but just for fun I tried sharing a bullet with my own account. Sure enough when I tried to add it back in from the invite email link, WF said "You are the owner of this document, you can't embed it. But it made me wonder why not--is the reason technical or design? An obvious workaround could be a second account. 

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • November 18, 2019 16:09

  Hi Jim,

  Even if you had a second account, you would only be able to embed a list once... not multiple times. So the workaround of the workaround wouldn't work. 

   

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