Duplicating Unpublished Projects

If the project is unpublished, after duplication the daughter project will appear in the list of active projects of all members of the original project. If one does not wish to make the duplicate available to all members, the Project Administrator should simply delete those other members from the duplicate project.

If the project is unpublished and the person requesting the duplication is not the Project Administrator, that person can request that he or she be made the Project Administrator of the duplicate copy. These kinds of project duplications will be done in consultation with the Project Administrator of that project.

Requests for duplication of unpublished projects will always result in the notification of the Project Administrator of that project before any action is taken. 
Preferred candidates for duplication are projects that:

  1. are intended to serve as a common base of data for two or more distinct sub-projects. Duplication allows your project data to be "branched" into sub-projects.
  2. are scheduled for partial publishing at different times. Branching allows you to create "snaphots" of your project for publication, which you continue working on the primary copy.