Cope CMS project layout to a new static page

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Hi everyone, I’m in the middle of building my portfolio website and now having trouble with this CMS project layout. So now I had a complete layout for my three CMS projects, and I want to create another page that has the exact same page layout as my CMS project page. When I copied the section from CMS project page, it won’t let me to paste it ( due to permission issue). I’m wondering if anyone else have encountered such problem as well? Is there a way I can copy the template I used in my CMS project and paste it in the new page?

Here is my read-only link: Webflow - Working Portfolio

Thanks!

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Hi Ruoyi, you can sort of hack this.
In your designer, create a readonly link, same as you’d do here for forum posts.

Then-

  • Open that link in a new browser window, and navigate to your collection page you want to copy structure from.
  • In your main designer view, navigate to the static page where you want those elements to be.
  • Copy from the read-only view to the designer view. Webflow will unlink the CMS items as you go.
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Hi Micheal,

Thank you for your help! When I select the entire section in the read-only view to the designer view, it says that the clipboard is empty. Even when I try select just the text box, it says that too in my designer view.

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Aaaah that’s right. Readonly won’t work here, you’d need to clone the site instead and work from the clone. Webflow doesn’t realize the site already belongs to you.

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Got u! That means I need to work in a paid workspace right?

So I would first of all showcase my site on the marketplace, and then clone it from there to be able to copy paste it right?

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You just duplicate the site, you don’t need to showcase it.

If you’re on a free workspace plan you’ll be limited to 2 unhosted sites total.

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Thank you for your help! it works now!

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