The paradigm of Edit As New is to go to a node you want to copy, and then click the Edit As New tab.

What about the other direction, where you would want to copy a node (say from a limited vocabulary of template nodes) or a portion thereof, to your new node?

Perhaps there could be a way to create simplified nodes for just the purpose of holding snippets of HTML / text, and you can choose them from a popup or dropdown?

Sort of backwards from what your module does ...

Regards
Rick Cogley
Tokyo Japan

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javanaut commented

Hmm..that seems like quite a challenge..

To implement this as things exist currently, you could:

1. create a vocabulary that just contains templates
2. add a menu item under the "create content" menu item (call it "create from template") that points to some taxonomy browser for the template vocabulary.
3. either have the user select the node, then click the "edit as new" tab or somehow override the action of the taxonomy browser to point to node/$template_nid/editasnew, which goes into this module.

BTW, I'm going to make the "edit as new" tab an admin-configurable field (http://drupal.org/node/16900) probably today.

Thanks for the input.

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jcarlson34 commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Almost 6 years since this post. Not sensing it getting fixed so cleaning up d.o a bit by marking this closed.