Making Copies of Field Widgets

All plans Last reviewed February 9, 2026

When building a form in your campaign, you might want to save time by copying and pasting Field Widgets into your Form Container. However, this approach may not produce the results you expect.

Overview

When setting up a Field Widget for the first time, you need to establish the field type (refer to the Field Widget Help Doc for details). Once a Field Widget is set up and saved, certain settings—such as the field type—cannot be changed.

Key consideration

If you copy and paste a field already set up:

Shared Settings: Any changes made to the duplicate field will also apply to the original field.
Shared Data: Information submitted to one field will automatically populate in all instances of that field in the form.

This limitation means copying and pasting fields may not work as intended for creating new, unique fields with similar formatting.

Examples

Copying and pasting Field Widgets

If you attempt to copy and paste a Field Widget that already has its type and settings configured, you’ll encounter the following prompt:

A Please confirm dialog warning that the pasted fields are already used elsewhere in this form, listing Name, Text Field, Custom Text Field and Email, and asking whether to still paste the widgets.

This prompt alerts you that the field(s) you're pasting into your campaign is already being used elsewhere in your Form Container.

Alert in widget settings

If you proceed with pasting the field, you’ll see an alert message at the bottom of the widget settings pop-up:

Field Widget settings for a First and Last name field. A green arrow points to a yellow warning bar reading This field is already used elsewhere in this form.

This message warns you that changes to this field will affect all other instances of the field in your form.

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