Forms Duplication in Sitefinity CMS

We have a lot of requests form clients about duplication of existing Sitefinity forms.

Please find a sample showing how to duplicate a specific form programmatically:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

var fromManager = FormsManager.GetManager();

//Get an existing form

var firstForm = fromManager.GetForms().Where(f => f.Title == "Test"

).FirstOrDefault();

if (firstForm.LockedBy != null)

{

fromManager.UnlockForm(firstForm.Id, false);

var firstDraft = fromManager.EditForm(firstForm.Id);

//Duplicate the form

DuplicateForm(firstForm.Title, firstDraft, fromManager);

fromManager.Lifecycle.CheckIn(firstDraft);

}

void DuplicateForm(string title, FormDraft draftToDuplicate, FormsManager receivingManager)

{

var dateString = DateTime.Now.ToString("MMddHHmm");

var name = "sf_adave" + "_" + dateString;

var formManager = receivingManager;

//Create a new form

var newForm = formManager.CreateForm(name);

newForm.Title = title + "_" + dateString;

var draft = formManager.EditForm(newForm.Id);

var master = formManager.Lifecycle.CheckOut(draft);

formManager.CopyControls(draftToDuplicate.Controls, master.Controls);

master.SuccessMessage = draftToDuplicate.SuccessMessage;

master.Owner = draftToDuplicate.Owner;

master.LastModified = DateTime.Now;

foreach (var control in master.Controls)

{

control.Published = false;

}

master = formManager.Lifecycle.CheckIn(master);

formManager.Lifecycle.Publish(master);

formManager.SaveChanges(true);

}

In the code we get an existing form and duplicate its controls and create a new form. You could change the name and title of the form to be different than the one we are using above. Execute the form in a new web form, created in Visual Studio.

Note that the sample works in monolingual environment.

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Forms Duplication in Sitefinity CMS

Stefani Tacheva