Jeff, I have a use case where duplicating an entire topic would be extremely useful.
We use our instance for business collaboration, specifically a union. Each meeting we make a thread, 8 posts long, TOC style.
Each meeting posts 1-8 while very different within the topic are the same format month to month with just specific info pasted in. it would be stunningly useful to have the ability to make a template not just for the first post, but the whole topic, replicating it each month and inserting the monthly information.
Right now, I have a topic I created in a private category with the template for each post 1-8. I currently have to open it split screen with a new topic, copy post 1 from template topic to new topic, then post 2, then post 3, etc.
While this is a really unusual use case, there are some instances which could really benefit from an admin feature to clone a topic, or if there’s a way to expand the topic template to include multiple individual reply templates nested into the category with the topic template.
Right now, whether its a topic template or a wizard, all I can do is clone an unfilled post #1 basically.