Create New List item by Copy Existing List Item and then edit the newly created List Item

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_{Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:09 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

We have requirement where in we want to create new list item by copy existing list item and then edit the newly created list item. How can we achieve this?

Regards,

Amit

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_{Wednesday, April 29, 2015 3:10 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi Amit,

you can use SharePoint designer workflow

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/10064/sendemail-activity-in-sharepoint-2010-sequential-workflow.aspx

https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Workflow-actions-in-SharePoint-Designer-2010-A-quick-reference-guide-5a7ad276-0ed7-49b0-b652-e56a77dd96c6

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John Naguib

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_{Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:08 PM ✅Answered}

You can use SharePoint Designer workflow to achieve this.

1. You can create 'Copy item' action to create new item and get reference to newly created item by using any of the column (like ID) and update the newly create item.

2. You can use 'Create new item' action to create new item and set properties for new item one by one. 

Only issue i can think of with this approach is, this workflow should be triggered manually. It if try to start it on item creation or on item edit, it goes into an infinite loop creating items and editing items.

As always you can write custom event receivers. 

_{Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:09 PM}

Hi,

We have requirement where in we want to create new list item by copy existing list item and then edit the newly created list item. How can we achieve this?

Regards,

Amit

_{Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:09 PM}

Hi,

We have requirement where in we want to create new list item by copy existing list item and then edit the newly created list item. How can we achieve this?

Regards,

Amit

_{Tuesday, February 20, 2018 9:43 AM}

hi Amit,

Can you please help me to set this up

Have the same request but i didn't understand how to implement it acc the instruction

Thanks

Almog

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