Can i duplicate CMS collection, format and design, for a different page with different information?

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Question:
Can i duplicate CMS collection, format and design, for a different page with different information?

Product:
Currently in Wix Studio

What are you trying to achieve:
I am building a property rental site and want a different page for student apartments and student houses.
Created cms for houses, just want to duplicate the format not the information?

What have you already tried:
Duplicating the page when editing the site

Additional information:
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Hi Martha. If I get your question right (And I sometimes don’t, so please correct me if I’m wrong! :blush:), the solution should be simple.

The simplest way is to list all your properties in ONE collection and create an extra field in your collection, which will tell you whether the property is a house or apartment. Then all you need to do is filter your datasets based on the type indicated in this extra collection field.

  1. Add all the properties into your collection - regardless of whether they’re houses or apartments.

  2. Add another field to your collection. It can be a text field or a tag field. This field will indicate whether the item in your collection is a student apartment or a student house.
    (Personally, I would go with a tag field as it’s the quickest to work with).

  3. Add the appropriate tag for each item in your collection. To those that are student apartments, add ‘student apartment’ tag, to those that are student houses, add ‘student house’ tag or you can add both for one property.

  4. Create a page with a repeater and a dataset. When you click on dataset settings, setup a filter (you want to filter the collection). Find the field name (the name of the field you’ve just created) in the dropdown and set it to includes: student houses/student apartments - depending on the page you’re working on right now.

  5. Then repeat this step for another page, but this time you’ll choose includes: {the other type}

In case you want to create 2 separate collections, simply create another collection, copy the layout of the page and in your dataset settings, connect your repeater to the second collection.

Hope this helps :four_leaf_clover:

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Thank you so much!
I have never done wix training before and have managed to do it!!
Thanks again!!

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