What is a 'Detached' Clone?

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I was working through some new template builds when I came across this:

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But as of yet, I’ve seen no articles related to these new ‘detached’ clones. Anyone have some enlightenment to share?
Was very much hoping it might have something to do with the ability to stage an existing page while using another (‘detached’) page’s dnd-built-template to save time from saving and re-adding section by section. Would be nice to be able to just clone the whole like classic design tools templates.

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Hi @DevenD,

thanks for the info. Must have missed this update!

Since I haven’t seen this yet I can only assume that this will give you what it’s called - a detached clone of your page. What this means is most likely a clone of your page that is not connected to the page you’re staging. Basically you’re building a completly new page which won’t affect the original one once you’ll push it to live.

What do you mean by “Would be nice to be able to just clone the whole like classic design tools templates.”?

If you want to save time creating the layout over and over here some tricks:

  1. create your own default template
    • Install the HubSpot developer chrome extension, while building a page in the page editor enable the developer-mode via the extension; click on the arrow down of your dnd_area, dnd_section … and select “copy Hubl”.
    • Navigate to the Design-Tools(Marketing--> Files&Templates --> Design-Tools(or Design-Manager)
    • locate your theme and open the templates folder
    • optional: create a new folder like “custom templates” or “pages” - the name is up to you
    • clone an existing template, rename it (label; somewhere in the first few commented lines)
    • paste your layout(s) between the {% block body %}…{% endblock body %} tag
    • save it
    • use it for your pages
  2. Clone an existing page (not recommended by easy)

hope this helps

best,

Anton

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Hey, @DevenD and @Anton :waving_hand: Way to go with the eagle eye on new features. I reached out to the owner for this feature.

  • It was released last week :white_check_mark:
  • Here’s the description they shared with me — “When you go to “Stage” from an existing page in the content staging tool, a third option will now be available to “Stage detached clone”.
    Selecting this option will create a clone of the existing page, but when this new page is published, it will not replace the existing page. Instead, it will be published as a brand-new page.”
  • The Knowledge Base article hasn’t been updated as of today (10/31). I’ll reach out to that team as well

Have fun building! — Jaycee