Copy/Paste locked element

Yeah, this is a massive pain.  I often want to duplicate frames within a board for use by different breakout groups and having to unlock/lock everything every time is really frustrating.

Same massive pain. A special select would be nice.

I would reclassify this as a defect “unable to copy/paste locked elements”.

Agree with @Dave Kelly -- being able to copy a frame and keeping the locked things locked and the unlocked things unlocked would be really helpful in setting up a set of identical frames so that each small group or person has their own to work on. Did this get added to wish list?

Wanted to add another that requires ability to copy/paste (or duplicate) a locked object.  We have a list (group) of objects with text that we want participants to place on a larger object.  In a live conference room, it would be like giving them all a stack of custom stickers to be placed on a flip chart. 

My thought was to create the objects and have them “ctrl-d” to duplicate the “stickers” so they can place them.  I want to lock the objects so a participant doesn’t accidentally takes the “list” away.

Any other ideas on how to do this? 

@Stephen Chew You should be able to do this already. Users can duplicate locked objects, and then place the duplicate. You’ll have to lock each “sticker” individually instead of as a group if you want them to be able to duplicate one at at time. Try it out!

@MichelleF Thanks!  I did lock all at once and tried to click on an individual object.  

One of the whole ideas of frames is to make it easier to create multiple instances.  Having to relock every item on a complex frame when you copy it really removes most of the value of the frame concept for use in classes!

Created couple of frames to support SAFe PI planning.

It really costs a lot of time to unclock, copy&paste, relock the frames with their content.

Can there be a solution near time ?

The problem appears to be the selection process. When you select via dragging a rectangle around an area, only unlocked item within the bounds of the rectangle are selected.

Locked items can be manually selected and copied/pasted, however only a single locked item can be selected at a time.

In addition, group selection ignores locked items. So if I drag a rectangle around a large area that consists of complex shapes or a large piece of work, then any locked items are not selected, and thus not included in the copy/paste. 

This is incredibly frustrating. One side effect of this is that everything must be unlocked to copy/paste. Which means the copy/paste will not include lock state and makes it a pain if you have to reapply locking and “admin only unlock”.

You all would probably appreciate this idea, which would solve this problem: https://community.miro.com/ideas/allow-selecting-locked-objects-when-ctrl-key-pressed-11642

I love Miro, but this is its biggest draw back!

Anything changed since the last post? Is there any chance this issues can be solved? It is really annoying when you have to unlock so many items to copy them to the new board, where the frame will be the same but for the different group of people :(.

Thank you everyone for sharing your feedback on this idea. We appreciate the insights. 

Our team is reviewing this, and it is open for votes and comments. For those coming across this idea, if you feel this would be helpful for your business, please be sure to vote for it and leave a comment about your use case to help our team scope this request!

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