Cloning a Design

Designs can be created using another design as a starting point. This can take one of two forms:

  1. You wish to create a new version of an existing design (either major or minor version)
  2. You wish to start an entirely new design, using the contents of an existing design version as a starting point.

These two processes are started in the same way.

  1. Click 'Open' to open your existing design
  2. Choose the system under which your existing design can be found and choose 'Search'
  3. Find the design on which you wish to base the new work and click 'Open'
  4. The versions of that design will be listed. Against the design version you want to use, click 'Clone'
  5. You are asked whether you wish to create a new design, or simply a new version of the existing design

Step 5 is the point at which the two journeys vary.

Choosing 'Design' will create an entirely new design, unrelated to the old (but containing a copy of its content.)

Choosing 'Design Version' will create a new version, underneath the existing design.