Table of Contents
Overview
How It Works
How To Clone a Catalog
After You’ve Finished Cloning
Related Articles
Overview
After publishing a catalog, it is common for users to make a copy of the catalog to begin editing a future version. In Coursedog this is referred to as “cloning”.
How It Works
Overview
If you think of a catalog as a set of custom pages, cloning a catalog simply creates an identical copy of this set of pages (including the homepage).
Each catalog is also assigned a top navigation and a side navigation, each of which is assigned to a “catalog scope” which determines the set of pages that the navigation is linking to.
For this reason it is very important to ensure that each catalog has navigations that are assigned to the catalog’s scope.
What’s Not Included
When you clone a specific catalog, the website settings DO NOT get cloned; rather, the cloned catalog will pick up the global website settings configured at Catalog > Settings > Website.
Filters applied to the catalog will not be cloned.
How To Clone a Catalog
Step 1: Ensure the website settings configured at Catalog > Settings > Website reflect the website settings you would like to see in the catalog you are about to create via the “clone” option.
Step 2:
Navigate to Catalog > Settings > Catalogs.
Click the “CLONE” button under the “ACTIONS” section.
Step 3: Name the new Catalog and then select “Clone”.
Step 4: Navigate to Catalog > Navigation.
Step 5: Click “Clone” next to the navigations you wish to clone.
Step 6: Give the new navigation a name/label and then select “Clone”.
Step 7:
Click to open the new navigation you just created.
Select the applicable catalog from the “Catalog Scope” dropdown menu.
After You’ve Finished Cloning
Navigations are cloned, but if you have links in your navigation that connect to the old catalog, you might want to make a new one or edit a clone of the navigation.
This is often the case with any links to pre-built pages which are in a nested navigation group.
Similarly, check the CTA links on your homepage to ensure you’re linking to your current catalog rather than a previous iteration (best practice is to use the relative URL as noted here, so no updating is needed, but if you’re using a full URL, you will want to make sure it’s updated after cloning).