The Clone feature allows you to create a copy of another user's document in your own workspace. The copy includes all the annotations from the original, but is otherwise independent from the source. Think of cloning as a way to build on the work that other users have created and shared, without the risk of breaking or interfering with anything.
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How to Clone
When you visit another user's workspace, you will see a list of documents. There are two possible reasons for why the documents are visible to you:
- the owner has explicitly shared them with you
- the owner has declared them to be under an open license and enabled public access
Only the second category - public documents with an open license - are available for cloning.
Important: documents are only available for cloning if they are declared to be under an open license, and were configured for full public access in the sharing settings.
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Select a document from the list. Click the button labeled Clone to my workspace that appears at the top right of the screen. Cloning may take a while. Once the process has finished, you will find the document in your workspace.
Navigating Connections
When a document is cloned, the information about where it was cloned from (and when) is kept. You can navigate this connection from the
annotation view.![](/assets/images/help/470958ec3054d001c39a194a8496b8a5-link-to-clone-source.png)
The page header will automatically show a link to the original if the document was cloned from another source. Likewise, when looking at the original document, the header will display a small label indicating how many times the document was cloned.
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Clicking the label reveals a drop-down list of links to the clones.