It would be quite useful to be able to make a copy of a draft mailing. As it stands currently, if you want to duplicate a draft email (for instance, if you want to send two slightly different mailings), you have to send it first and then reuse it.
I'm not sure if this would be complicated or simple to implement (essentially the same as re-using a mailing or something more complex). Does anyone have thoughts?
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Here's a pull request that adds the Re-use option to draft mailings.
After doing this, I see that re-use is perhaps not the right word when we are dealing with draft mailings, since they have not yet been used. Would it make sense to change this to Copy or Make a Copy? Copy is used for events, Make a Copy for Contribution Pages. I think Copy is clear enough and I don't think it is unclear on scheduled/sent or archived mailings.
This works for mailings created from a search. As far as I can tell, there is no difference between mailings created from a search or mailings created via new mailing for continuing or copying a mailing - it works for both. I see the docs are out of date about this and have submitted a change removing that text.
@ufundo are you on an older version? Continue and Re-use work for me for mailings from a search on 5.35.1 and dmaster.
Strange. I don't see Re-use for sent mailings from a search on a 5.35.1 site. Maybe a setting somewhere? I will have to investigate. Or maybe your PR will just solve it
[I do get the Continue option (wouldn't the draft mailing be completely useless without this?)]
You're so right. I was just looking at Continue. Currently, mailings based on search results can't be re-used on dmaster or 5.35.1.
This patch does enabled copying of mailings from search results! I'm going to comment on the PR to see if that is a problem — but hopefully it's just a nice bonus.
I did wonder if there may be some subtleties to what would happen with the hidden recipient groups in case of copying a search mailing ─ sounds like a good thing to flag. I assume there was some reason that functionality was originally disabled?