Automate CMS Page Duplication with Dynamic Content in Webflow

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I’m creating a Webflow webapp where users can log in and browse company profiles (e.g., Apple), showing details like strategy and competitors. I have 3 dummy CMS Collection Pages, each with 100+ cards (e.g., Card 1 = strategy, Card 2 = competitors) populated from the CMS.

To start, I created CMS page #1 for company #1. Then linking each card to the CMS database. After finishing, I duplicated CMS page #1 to make pages for companies #2 and #3, aiming to copy everything, including CMS data elements, to avoid re-linking each card manually. However, I found that only the layout/design duplicated, not the linked text fields. I received the error: “Dynamic elements can only be moved within the same Collection List or Collection Page.”

I need a solution to duplicate CMS page #1 so that the text fields on the duplicated cards automatically pull from their respective CMS Collections without manual re-linking.

Is this possible, if so how?

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hi @Jake_NL I do not fully understand but it seems to me you are taking about page template that is in WF called Collection page

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As Stan said, your setup and problem aren’t entirely clear, but my guess is;

  • You’ve created a collection and designed a collection page
  • You want to duplicate the collection, and ideally clone the collection page with it, while having it automatically re-bind all elements to the new collection

The answer is no, that’s not a feature of Webflow.

You’ll manually recreate the collection, and then manually recreate the collection page layout, and then manually re-link everything.

In general, the idea of duplicating a collection isn’t a desirable design practice. Instead, you’d make use of refs, multi-refs, and filtering to display the content you want where you want it, and keep your schema normalized, which is to say- following good data modeling principles like DRY ( don’t repeat yourself ) with your schema structures.

Webflow generally works better that way, though you’ll face some limitations no matter what approach you choose.

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Thanks for the remarks all, i have solved the problem by using the unique URLS of the Collection Items to create seperate pages whilst still using the same overaching Collection Page!