copy/duplicate header

[schoettl]

I'm trying again to use organice in our company for production planning using orgmode exporter ox-taskjuggler.el to generate Gantt and resource diagrams. New orders are automatically added to the org file and we can use organice to manage the file.

For this, I need a method to "split" an order if it is produced in two batches.

I'm thinking of a "duplicate" or "copy" button in the header toolbar. This way, the task (=header) is duplicated with same order number and customer information and I can sort the copies as sub tasks into different production batches.

Do you think this duplicate function would be general useful? Or can it be combined with the "+" button somehow? Long-press (hidden functionality)?

I think adding a dedicated "copy" icon to the toolbar may be best.

[schoettl]

Another option would be a "copy" checkbox in the refile menu (org-refile-copy). The disadvantages of this way for my use case would be

• not as easy to reach
• the copy will appear at a different place, not right below the original header

But if I'd go that way, another option in the refile function for prepend vs. append would be helpful.

And a copy button could still be added and reuse the refile function.

Any comments?

[munen]

Thank you for pinging on this issue, again 🙏 First, kudos to using organice i production 💪 💯

I can relate to wanting copy functionality. Personally, I also have templates for various things that I regularly copy and populate with new data. Some of those templates, I even keep in the spot where the new populated version should be, so our use cases are very similar. So, since it's two people speaking and both understanding the requirements, it's definitively something that is generally useful(; Well, at least it is to us^^

As for the UX, I'm a bit torn. I understand that another button would be good as it appears as a simple option. However, that re-opens the whole UX debate of how we can add more functionality to a header. I'd argue that we're on the limit for the maximum number of buttons per header. I don't have the smallest phone, but adding another button would squish the existing ones a uncomfortably close together.

Since the discussion on how to tackle that issue is not resolved, I like your two alternative suggestions! Long press would work for me. Would be a first in organice, though. I have no experience how well that would work across platforms. There's certainly someone on the web that has researched this properly, though. Alternatively, we could also go with the refile option. It feels less composable, though, as it would do two things at once (copy + refile).

Would 'long press' work for you, assuming that there's a good way to make this work across platforms?