# Product Cloning

Managing thousands of IoT devices efficiently requires standardised setups. In Datacake, this is achieved through **Products**, which define shared elements like dashboards, payload decoders, and downlinks.

Previously, products created in one workspace were not available in others. With the **Product Cloning** feature, you can now duplicate products across workspaces, making it easier to manage large-scale deployments while retaining flexibility.

### The Challenge Before Cloning

* Products were **workspace-bound**: each workspace had to create its own product from scratch or from the template catalog.
* Products in the main workspace were not available in sub-workspaces.
* This meant duplicating setup work whenever you added new workspaces.

Product Cloning solves this limitation. It allows you to **copy an existing product** from one workspace into another.

#### Key Benefits

* Save time by reusing product definitions across multiple workspaces.
* Maintain consistency in dashboards, payload decoders, and downlinks.
* Retain flexibility: cloned products are independent of the original.

If you prefer, you can watch our YouTube video:

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## How to Clone a Product

### 1. Create Your First Product

Of course to clone a Product, there needs to be a Product first. The first time you create a product, it must be linked to a device, so:

* Click on "**+Add Device"**
* For LoRaWAN or API devices choose:
  * **New product from template** → Create a product based on one of Datacake’s templates (with dashboard, fields, decoders, etc.).
  * **New product** → Create an empty product from scratch.

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The Cloning Product feature only works for LoRaWAN and API devices!
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### 2. You can add more devices later...

When you want to add additional devices of the same kind:

* Next time you +Add Devices, select "**Existing product"**.
* This way, all devices stay linked through the **Product definition** and share:
  * Dashboards
  * Payload decoders
  * Downlinks
  * Fields

### 3. Now, Clone an Existing Product

To clone a product into another workspace:

1. Go to one of the devices belonging to the product in the original workspace.
2. Open **Configuration/Product & Hardware**.
3. Scroll down to **Advanced Actions**.
4. Click **Clone Product**.

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### 4. Configure the Clone

When cloning, you can change the **product's name**. This will appear in the new workspace and can only be configured once, so be mindful!

Then, select the **target workspace** (only workspaces where you have device permissions will be shown).

Choose whether to copy **Integration settings** (LNS, MQTT, HTTP).

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For devices using the **Datacake LNS**, the LNS configuration is always cloned automatically.
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### 5. Add Devices to the Cloned Product

At first, the cloned product will not contain any devices. Don’t worry!

* Go to **+Add Device** in the target workspace.
* Select **LoRaWAN** or **API device**.
* Choose **Existing product** → The cloned product will appear here.
* Add your device keys and add devices to your cloned product.

## Remove a Product

To remove a product from a workspace:

* Delete all devices belonging to that product.
* Once no devices are left, the product will be removed automatically as well.

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Cloned products are **independent from the original products**: changes you make to dashboards, decoders, or downlinks in the cloned product will not affect the original. So the products are still workspace dependent!
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That’s it! You can now quickly replicate your setups across multiple workspaces with **Product Cloning**.

## Example Use Case

Imagine you manage multiple customer deployments across different workspaces. Instead of rebuilding products for each customer, you can:

1. Define a product once (including dashboard, decoder, downlinks).
2. Clone it into customer-specific workspaces.
3. Adjust cloned products locally, while keeping the base setup consistent.