Creating a new guide by using an existing guide as a template has a couple more steps than creating one from scratch, but is just as easy!
- Get to the create guide screen.
- From the Home / Dashboard page, click + Create Guide in the LibGuides Shortcuts box.
- Or go to Content > Guides and click the + Create Guide button at the top of the page.
- Choose Layout or Reuse (see below):
Start Fresh is selected by default - select Copy content / layout from an existing guide instead.
- Choose Local Guides.
- Click in the "Select a guide" box and start typing the name of the guide.
(Or you can add the guide's URL.)
- Select the guide from the search results.
- Reasons why a guide might not appear:
- Sharing Guide Content is set to No (if an internal guide) or Internal (if Community).
- The guide's status is not Published or Private (if Community).
- It's a v1 guide - you cannot copy v1 guides into v2 systems (or vice versa).
- Fill out the rest of the form (see below):
- Guide Name & Description:
Remember, keep these short & to the point!
- Guide Type:
Select the type of guide; default is "General Purpose". This aids users in browsing through guides on the public side.
- Share Guide Content:
- No: No one can reuse this guide, either in our outside of your system.
- Internal: Can be reused within your system, but not outside of it.
- Click Create Guide.
