Structure and duplication of category contents intra discourse and between discourse sites

I am using discourse to document the parts and pieces of a particular recent bill and would like to use the existing category & contents for said bill to provide the initial populating of a category focused on the repeal of that bill.

So category A with contents → category B Any thoughts on a good export/import for categories intra discourse?

I have considered spinning up new discourse for the category B work on a subdomain, a different domain i.e. domain focused on repeal effort or site focused on the actual text of the repeal act.

Also, related possibly: Has anyone done a sync setup from some category of a discourse to same /similar category on different discourse instance?

Do you want to create just subcategories or also the topics?

You can export a category… Maybe it’s here: Administrative Bulk Operations

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Thanks for that! It is useful but to answer your question, no subcategories, just one categories’ contents into another, once and done. I am trying to avoid duplicating manually but as I work on the manual approach I am reminded the topic title can’t be reused so I need to append/modify the title and change the contents to need text or placeholder.

I am probably conflating things a bit as I get my head wrapped around things. Also, I am trying to avoid use some actual links that would help with articulating my needs given the highly political nature of the bill in question. :wink:

Hopefully this helps.

For individual topics without all the index and chapter stuff
Category A
Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Enrolled-Text
Law-as-Amended | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Law-as-Amended
Impact | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Impact

Category B
Draft | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Draft
Ready-to-Publish | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Ready-to-Publish
Published | Sec. 10101. Re-evaluation of thrifty food plan tagged Published (the text would be pubished on a seperate single focus site.)

You can change that in the site settings: Allow duplicate topic titles

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yes i have to use this for those emails that repeat subject

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