{"id":4207,"date":"2015-06-17T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2015-06-17T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:43:44","slug":"copying-contacts-and-large-amounts-of-content-in-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2015\/06\/17\/copying-contacts-and-large-amounts-of-content-in-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying contacts (and large amounts of content) in NILE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/06\/copy-manuscript.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4210\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/06\/copy-manuscript-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"copying a manuscript\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/06\/copy-manuscript-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/06\/copy-manuscript.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The preparation of sites for the 2015\/16 academic year is now starting in earnest and you may find yourself copying material from last year&#8217;s sites. Usually this is fairly easy using the &#8216;copy&#8217; dropdowns, but one section that is a little more difficult is &#8216;Contacts&#8217;. It isn&#8217;t possible to copy individual contacts from one site to another, but you can copy the whole Contacts folder even if this isn&#8217;t immediately obvious. Especially as you probably only ever do this once a year!<\/p>\n<p>One advantage of this full copy process is that you can create a &#8216;Master&#8217; contact list to import into all your modules with every contact, then just delete those you don&#8217;t need on a particular module.<\/p>\n<p>We have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/nile.northampton.ac.uk\/bbcswebdav\/xid-2408602_1\" target=\"_blank\">quick one-page guide<\/a> to jog your memory and \u00a0help you speed things up. The same principle can be applied to large content areas with lots of content. Rather than copying items individually you can move across all the content of a menu item on the left side. 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