Duplicating Objects

Duplicating Objects with Advanced Options

You can duplicate a structure and choose to duplicate, reuse, or exclude each child object.

Compared to the Duplicate command, the Duplicate Advanced command provides options that give you more control over the resulting duplicated structure.


Before you begin:

Select all connected objects together to duplicate the connections and move them to the new objects. Otherwise, the new objects will remain connected to the initial object.

  1. In the Duplicate dialog box, click Advanced Duplicate.

    The structure of the objects and a panel with the advanced options are displayed in the dialog box. You can move this panel or dock it at the top or on the right of the dialog box.

  2. To select objects, do one of the following:
    • Select one or several objects in the table.
    • In the Selection tab of the panel, specify the filters of your choice:
      • To filter objects based on their title, in the Title section of the panel, enter a string of characters, and select either the Contains or Does not contain option.
      • To filter objects based on their properties (for example, types of objects or maturity states), in the Tags section of the panel, select the tags of your choice.
      Click either Add to add the objects matching these filters to the selection, or Remove to remove them.
  3. To specify whether the selected objects are duplicated, reused, or excluded from the duplication process, select the operation from the Actions list in the Tools tab of the panel.
  4. To modify the title for the duplicates, select one or several objects, and do one of the following:
    ActionDescription
    Add a prefix or a suffix
    1. In the Add Text section of the Tools tab, enter a string of characters.
    2. To add this prefix or suffix to the children of the selected objects, select the Apply to children option.
    3. From the list, click either Before Title or After Title.
    Replace a string of character with another one
    1. In the last section of the Tools tab, enter the string to replace in the Find box, and the new string in the Replace box.
    2. Click Replace.
    Modify the complete title of the object Click the title in the New Title column, and enter the title of your choice.
  5. Click Duplicate.