Channel Form: Cloning Entries on Front-End

Okapi Creative

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Front-end cloning used to be possible in Safecracker but apparently this functionality was removed in EE 2.6 - I’ve got round it like this (thanks to a user on Stack Exchange):

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PARENT
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{exp:safecracker channel="my_channel"}

    {embed="my_tpl_group/my_form" copy_from_entry_id="123"}

    
        <button id="form_submit" type="submit" class="">Duplicate Program</button>
    

{/exp:safecracker}


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EMBED
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{exp:channel:entries channel="my_channel" entry_id="{embed:copy_from_entry_id}" }

    {!-- Output the pre-filled form of the entry you are wanting to duplicate --}
    
        <label for="program_number">program_number</label>
        <input type="text" name="program_number" id="program_number" value="{if program_number}{program_number}{/if}">
    

    <input type="hidden" name="program_start_date" id="program_start_date" value="{if program_start_date}{program_start_date format='%F %d, %Y'}{/if}">

    .....etc…..

{/exp:channel:entries}

And this works in Channel Form fine. The problem is that I needto show Inline Error Reporting and this does not work because of the embed. It just gives the actual code of the error - i.e.:

{error:my_field}

And not the error message.

Any way round this? Is there a way of doing this with Stash - embedding/pre-parsing the entry and thus getting the error to show correctly?

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