Copying bookmarks to another user's profile

[alliej428]

Hi-

Is there a way to copy over bookmarks from one user's profile to another?   I've looked but haven't found a way to do so, and I'm not sure if this is possible.

Thanks!

[Community Alums]

I've been trying to figure out the same every time I come across this task...  Let us know if you figure it out!

[Chuck Tomasi]

The fields for the icon and color are (unsurprisingly) called icon and color.

If you are copying a record, be sure to include those values. Example:

target.icon = source.icon;
target.color = source.color;

[Marcin Kroszel]

[The below XML solution doesn't work but I will leave it here for the others]

I've found a different non-scripting method to perform copy/paste of bookmarks from one account to another.

Steps:

1. Navigate to Bookmarks,
2. Filter by records which should be copied,
3. Export xml 
4. Edit the xml with Notepad++
5. Copy sys_id of a user where you want to copy bookmarks to
6. In Notepad++ select sys_id, click CTRL + H and replace all values
7. Do the same as above (point 5 & 6) for user's display_value
8. Save xml
9. Import xml to your instance.

I don't know if this is a bug free method but so far it worked for me. 

I created my own script and managed to copy --> paste bookmarks from one account to another as well but the syntax is not as advanced as presented above by @Peter de Bock 🙂

[Chuck Tomasi]

I would be careful of that method because the original records from sys_ui_bookmark each have their own sys_ids and if you upload those back to the same instance, you are basically overwriting the old records since sys_id is the system's coalesce value to determine uniqueness.

[Marcin Kroszel]

And this is exactly what happened 😄 At least if someone tries to do the same he will stop after reading this 😛