Hello there, I need to set up somehow a way to let my users duplicate one invoice (with all the invoice lines) 24 times. I´m trying to think about a solution but I cannot figure out how to solve this. Does anyone know how can this be done? Thanks a lot.

Have you looked into list shifter plugin? To run a workflow N times.

No, I actually saw on your post several times but I did not know that plugin could do such a thing. Let´s take a look. Thanks a lot @vini_brito !

Also possible to use Schedule workflow and run it 24 times. (You create a thing “Clone”: processed, requested. When user click clone, this set requested to 24 and processed to 0 and send to Schedule API Workflow. The API Workflow Clone the item, make a change to current “Clone” item: processed: thi…

Wow this could work. Let´s try it out. I´ve just remembered that it does not have to be always 24 times. I need to let the user to duplicate up to 24 times but it can be lower than 24. Will this work as well? Thanks a lot @Jici

Yes because you will set requested = input value

I´ve just figured another situation: When a user creates for example the next 6 invoices, and then he modifies the second duplicate. We should ask if the modification only affects to the current invoice or to the another 4 one´s that comes from the first duplicated invoice. If he says to affect the…

It’s more complicated. Will user always edit the master one?.. If yes, I suggest you to have a master invoice app and when user create clone, this create thing in a different app and all item will be linked to the master. Then you can update related clone if needed. This may be easier to find origin…

Hehe seems like more complicated to me also. I´m thinking about maybe having the master invoice unique id saved in the duplicated ones so when the user tries to edit the duplicated ones, we do a search for to that unique id, and then we know that the newer invoices with the “duplicated invoice id” …

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