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Copy a webpage on ifixit to use for a new guide?

How do you copy a webpage on ifixit to use for a new guide? i dont really want to start over completely to add one step for a new fix.

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You're right, this is something that we commonly need to do. That's why we built prerequisites into the guide system.

"Prerequisites simply add the steps from existing guides to the beginning of your new guide, so that they show up before any new steps, breaking your guides up to be specific to one component. For example, in most devices you'll want to remove the battery early in the repair process. Instead of having to include a step explaining how to remove the battery at the beginning of every guide, you can write the battery removal guide once, then select the battery guide as a prerequisite in future guides. Here's a guide for replacing an iPhone 5 battery. The battery removal guide is a prerequisite for the iPhone 5 Volume Controls guide. You can see that before you even get to the volume controls, you must go through the same steps that are found in the battery guide.”

Learn more about prerequisites.

If you want to add one step and the existing guide can remain unchanged, then simply add it as a prerequisite. If you want to take a subset of an existing guide, you may have to perform some surgery. Let's say steps 1-9 of Guide A are common, and step 10 is unique to A. You want to add several new steps to create guide B.

  1. Delete step 10 from guide A and create a new guide, C, with A as it's prerequisite. C will be the new A.
  2. Mark A as 'prerequisite-only' (we do this by adding a flag to the guide, for the moment only admins can do this part so just leave a note here on Meta requesting it)
  3. Create Guide B, add A as its prerequisite, and create your new steps.

Voila! A is now a building-block guide, with B and C as the publicly-viewable procedures. Any improvements made to the steps in A will be reflected in both.

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You don't necessarily "copy" a guide into another guide. We have a prerequisite guide field that lets you import and attach an existing guide to the beginning of the new guide.

Check out this Edit page for the Kindle Fire Motherboard Replacement guide. (This is the Details tab of a guide.) You should see something like this:

List any prerequisite guides

• Kindle Fire Back Case Replacement

• Kindle Fire Battery Replacement

• Deroute Kindle Fire Speaker Cable

In this case, the Back Case, Battery, and Speaker Cable guides were all attached to the beginning of Motherboard Replacement. So if you view the Motherboard Replacement guide, you'll note that:

Step 1 — Back Case

Step 3 — Battery

Step 6 — Speaker Cable

and...

Step 7 — Motherboard

The Back Case prerequisite starts at step 1, ends at 2; the Battery prerequisite starts at 3, goes until 5; the Speaker Cable guide is just one step. So in actuality, the Motherboard Replacement guide starts at step 7, and the previous six steps are all prerequisites.

This is how we make our lives easier, as it would be rather silly (and wasteful) to have to recreate the same steps over and over again for subsequent guides.

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