duplicate-event.md

How to duplicate an event

Every now and then organizers in regions where English is not the main language request to have 2 websites, an English version and a non-English one. For example, Django Girls Geneva has requested twice to have a French and an English website. For a while, we have manually created the event, copying the details from the event created when the event application was approved and deployed. This takes time and is a bit frustrating for the person doing it.

Since April, 11th, 2022, we have added an action in the Event admin to duplicate an event automatically. It copies everything else, add _clone to the page_url field of the new event to avoid the MultipleObjectsReturned - Expected 1 Get returned 2 objects error. While the main organizer is copied, the team field which relies on foreign keys is not copied because the id of the new event is None when it is created.

This means the person duplicating the event should change the page_url fields to appropriate urls for both the original event, for example, to geneva_fr for the French version and geneva_en for the English version. They also need to copy the team from the original event as well. These are the only 2 bits that still need human intervention.

The instructions for duplicating an event are as follows:

1. Log in to Django Girls Admin.

2. Click on the List of Events link in the left pane.

3. Select the event you want to duplicate.

4. Open the dropdown menu in the Action on top to select the Clone selected Events option as shown in the image below.

5. Click Go as shown below. The process will only take a few seconds.

6. As shown below, the organizers sections will be empty and will be filled by you copying manually the Team section from the event you just cloned.

7. Click on the new event which has _clone at the end of the name. Select the team members to populate the organizers list.

8. Also change the website URL as shown below.

Yay! You have duplicated an event!