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title: Copying elements
description: To build your authorization logic more quickly and accurately, you can make editable copies of many of your Policy Editor entities.
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revdate: June 13, 2024
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# Copying elements

To build your authorization logic more quickly and accurately, you can make editable copies of many of your Policy Editor entities.

## About this task

Within the Policies and Trust Framework pages, you can copy whole definitions, policies, rules, statements, and Library entities. See the following table for page-specific capabilities and limitations.

| Policy Editorpage                      | Capabilities and limitations                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Trust Framework                        | * You can copy any definition.

* With the exception of resolvers, you can't copy a portion of a definition.

  * Copy the whole definition to duplicate any of its content, or manually copy the element between definitions.

* When you copy a definition that contains child definitions, only the parent definition is duplicated.

* You can't copy definition hierarchy trees.                                                                                                                         |
| Policies                               | - You can copy any policy, rule, or statement.

- You can't copy policy sets.

- You can't copy targets, conditions, or properties within a policy or rule.

- When you copy policies containing rules, targets, or statements belonging to the Library, these entities get reused in the new policy, not copied.

- When you copy rules or statements within a policy, you must save the policy.                                                                                                             |
| Library                                | * On the Library tab, you can copy top-level Library rules, targets, and statements.

  * You can also copy statements within rules.

  * You can't copy targets within rules.

* You can copy Library rules and statements at their point of use.

  * When you make copies of Library entities within rules or policies, the copies display at the point of use and on the Library tab.

* Where relevant, the copying capabilities and limitations listed for the Policies page apply to Library entities. |
| Trust Framework, Policies, and Library | - You can't use Make Copy in the tree structure view.

- You must save any unsaved changes to an entity before making a copy.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

## Steps

1. To create a copy of a Policy Editor entity, click Make Copy in the hamburger menu.

   ![Screen capture of using Make Copy to copy an attribute in the Trust Framework.](_images/eti1686766224950.png)

   ### Result:

   The Policy Editor creates a duplicate of the entity and its contents. The new duplicate's name is formed by adding the prefix \[Copy of] to the original name, as in the following image.

   ![Screen capture of a duplicate Trust Framework attribute created using Make Copy.](_images/vcx1686767993451.png)

2. **Optional:** Make edits to the new entity.