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I have two channels product & product_info. The product and product_info have a one to many relationship using playa. The product_info list the product as a parent. Both channels use Matrix fields in the field set.

As a one off event, I need to duplicate a product and all of it's linked product_info entries for versioning purposes. I would like any suggestions on the best way of achieving this.

My current ideas are: - Dump out the db into a sql file and manually hunt down all the insert statements i want to duplicate and copy/pasta them after doing some find replace on id's - Write a script to query certain tables and insert them back in as new records - try and use something like Datagrab

I am currently pushing forward with the db script but I am finding EE database "design" challenging.

thank you for any suggestions

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Unless I'm misunderstanding, how about using Cloner? http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/mx-cloner

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  • I have installed mx_cloner and it does the job, however i have several thousand entries to clone and they do need slight title tweaks. So going through each one is time consuming. I have unpicked the db and am nearly there using some python. Whoever decided it was a good idea to keep appending fields as new cols to the exp_channel_data table should be shot. – user2032060 Apr 10 '14 at 12:50

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