How to successfully clone news widgets?

[Kvist]

Hi!

I am currently building a new news center, for which I want to clone the widgets News Info and Featured News. The problem is, once I clone them, I cannot publish to them. I can only publish to the original widgets. I assume this can be altered somewhere, but have yet to find where.

Furthermore, I would like to insert a copy of the Featured News widget into a portal page under a different scope. But it seems like I can only publish news to pages under the Content Publishing scope. Can this be altered?

[Abhishek_Thakur]

Hello @Kvist ,

If you have cloned your widget successfully, you need to edit it from the instance in page editor and navigate to the original version of widget from instance in page editor and change the widget you cloned from the bottom. Attaching the screenshot for your reference.

Navigate to the page in which you want to replace your widget.

After opening it, you will get the view as attached in the image and click on the original widget.

Now, finally go to the bottom and change the widget, which you want.

Please mark my answer as accepted solution and give thumbs up if it helps you.

[Kvist]

Hi,

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The issue is not editing or inserting a cloned widget; the issue is that I am not allowed to publish to cloned news widgets (at least not out of the box).

[Kvist]

Thanks but I was probably not clear enough in my description: I know how to edit and insert cloned widgets. The issue is specifically for news widgets, where I need to publish to them. That does not seem to be possible for cloned widgets.

[Abhishek_Thakur · Accepted solution]

Hello @Kvist,

Yes, you are correct it's not possible to do it.

Please accept my solution and give thumbs up, if it helps you.