# Simple Action - How to copy a record within a page?

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**Created:** [June 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/simple-action-how-to-copy-a-record-within-a-page/19485 "2025-06-17T00:02:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mathew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.knack.com/u/Mathew)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/simple-action-how-to-copy-a-record-within-a-page/19485/1 "2025-06-17T00:02:49Z")

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Hello Knack Community,

I need assistance with creating a “duplication” action for users. I’m currently building with Next Gen Apps version.

In Microsoft excel users can copy a row of data and insert a duplication of the data on the row below. My users would like to have the same ability while logged into a live page and interacting with data on a table.

Here is what I have so far. I have created a table of data and have placed it on a page. Knack pages gives the following action: Edit Record, Delete Record, View Record, Link to existing page and dynamic option. But knack doesn’t give a copy or duplicate action. These options will create a child page where you can add a form to update the current record but doesn’t allow a form to add a new records.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/knack/original/2X/a/ad4cdf329fc94ac75621547a0cf42b7a981d2518.png)  
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My Purpose: I am creating an app for a medical billing company. We submit claims to insurance companies. However, sometimes the insurance companies will partially pay a claim. When this happens we create a duplicate of the claim record. The original will show paid, the copy will show that a secondary payment is owed. We need two entries for tracking purposes.

Solutions: At present I have created a button that links to a child page. I added a form that adds a new record. The problem with this solution is that the original data is not carried over, so we have to add all the field values again. A duplicate action would streamline this workflow. As you know when building a program for others they will always prefer to do less work. XD

Here some pictures:

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 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/knack/original/2X/f/ff3e652284b36715c821d082f3fd139ee95ccb02.png)

Thanks for any feedback. I’m also open to workarounds. If there is a way to get the data on the current table to auto populate onto a new form, then that would be great. However, at present I’m not inclined to explore flows or api.

- Mathew