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Copy button that lives alongside existing buttons for duplicate, move, manage access and delete. This would be made available at the Component, Unit, Subsection, and Section levels. The UI includes a new dropdown menu from a three-dot icon in the right heading section of components, units, subsections and sections.
[DECISION 2/15/23 - We will keep both the duplicate and the copy as independent features for now, due to nuanced differences in their scope, ie duplicate only works within a course, and copy works across courses, and duplicate allows authors to interact immediately with the duplicated content. Additionally, duplicate is a well-used function and one we don’t want to remove from current authoring flows. The concern about confusion is addressed with the UI decision to build a dropdown menu that allows both functions to coexist.] Note: The overlap between Copy and Duplicate is likely to confuse users. It’s possible that we could also replace the Duplicate functionality with this.
Authors are alerted that their copy is complete with a toast notification.
Context-specific paste button(s). You can’t paste a Section into a Unit, so these would have to only be usable when the appropriate type of thing is in the Clipboard.
Paste preview via a “What’s in my clipboard” hover display that informs authors about the title of the copied item, the item type, and the source with a link back to the source.
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