Copy a field when creating a new version in Sitecore

Question

I understand that the Unversioned and Shared checkboxes in Sitecore allow us to share a fields value across languages and versions.

I was wondering if there is a setting that will allow me to copy all fields from the default language into the new language when I add a new language version?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't think you can do this by default. You have several options, but the main ones (IMO) are:

• The no-work approach is that you use the "Translate" view, which lets you see two versions of an item side-by-side so you can transpose one into the other. The copying process is manual, but at least you don't have to constantly switch versions.

• Another (and by no means the only other) approach is to write an event handler that interacts with the Sitecore API. Make it respond to a version created event and, in the correct circumstances, copy the values from another version into the new version.