# Cloning projects
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [November 5, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100 "2013-11-05T02:04:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@catenalogic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/catenalogic)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2013, 2:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100/1 "2013-11-05T02:04:46Z")
I am trying to group projects and configurations. My project consists of this:
- \* CI
- - Project X
- - Project Y
- \* Development
- - All
- - Project X
- - Project Y
- \* Test
- - All
- - Project X
- - Project Y
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- etc
Now the first level is a project in Continua (because I want all people to start the CI, Dev, Test build, but I want to prevent them doing an actual production build). Then the separate projects are configurations in Continua. I can only clone configurations, not projects. It would be **great** if I could clone projects. Or is there another way to fine-grain the grouping of such a large and complex project structure?
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### Author:  [@catenalogic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/catenalogic)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100/2 "2013-11-05T02:24:59Z")
Another thing that would help me out is if I could group (or tag) the configurations. Then I can create a single project which is good. Then I can create subgroups of configurations.
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100/3 "2013-11-06T02:49:13Z")
We did have sub-projects as part of the original design but this was removed to reduce complexity. We will look into whether we can implement project and/or configuration categories or groups for a later release.
Cloning projects has been on our to-do list for a while. I'll bump up the priority.
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### Author:  [@catenalogic](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/catenalogic)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100/4 "2015-03-24T10:04:22Z")
One possible technology you can use is this:
[http://aaubry.net/pages/yamldotnet.html](http://aaubry.net/pages/yamldotnet.html)
Basically you can serialize your configuration object and allow the user to export / import. I think that would be a nice feature for 1.7 😉
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/cloning-projects/5100/5 "2015-03-25T01:38:59Z")
Hi Geert,
Cloning projects is already available.
The main body on work with importing and exporting is selecting which linked resources such as repositories, variables and user permissions are included and re-linking any missing resources to to new resources on the new server. It is on the to-do list, but we’re concentrating on get version 1.6 released first.