<p>No, there's nothing built into Craft that lets you do this. </p>

<p>Please note though, that you can reuse fields across sections in Craft. Field groups is just an organizational layer on top of fields to make it easier to add a group of fields to a section, and to be able to find fields more easily. It doesn't give any additional meaning to the fields. So you can't have a field with the same handle in different field groups, and it doesn't make sense to duplicate a field that's actually used across sections.</p>

<p>If you need to duplicate fields (because they're actually suppose to be different fields), I highly recommend the Field Manager plugin by Verbb (<a href="https://github.com/verbb/field-manager/tree/craft-2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Craft 2</a> and <a href="https://github.com/verbb/field-manager" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Craft 3</a> versions available) which makes it super easy do to this, and in general provides a much better interface to manage fields.</p>

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2018-03-21T19:29:29.120Z
Thanks.  I've now got the Field Manager plugin.  Whenever I clone a group or the individual fields, does the plugin handle distinct naming, or is it up to the user to handle the naming?
buck1112
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2018-03-22T09:29:03.847Z
You have to give each field a unique handle, as I said in my reply. The label can be different, though.
André Elvan
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2018-03-21T16:22:38.960Z
2018-03-21T16:22:38.960Z
André Elvan
<p>I hadn't seen this asked, so I thought I'd broach the subject.<br>
I would like to copy fields into a new field group, and then add/delete a few of those fields from the new group, to save time of building one again from scratch.
Does Craft have a way to do this?</p>

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Populate Field Group With Fields From Another Field Group
# Populate Field Group With Fields From Another Field Group

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-21)

I hadn't seen this asked, so I thought I'd broach the subject.  
I would like to copy fields into a new field group, and then add/delete a few of those fields from the new group, to save time of building one again from scratch.
Does Craft have a way to do this?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-03-21. Score: 2

No, there's nothing built into Craft that lets you do this.

Please note though, that you can reuse fields across sections in Craft. Field groups is just an organizational layer on top of fields to make it easier to add a group of fields to a section, and to be able to find fields more easily. It doesn't give any additional meaning to the fields. So you can't have a field with the same handle in different field groups, and it doesn't make sense to duplicate a field that's actually used across sections.

If you need to duplicate fields (because they're actually suppose to be different fields), I highly recommend the Field Manager plugin by Verbb ([Craft 2](https://github.com/verbb/field-manager/tree/craft-2) and [Craft 3](https://github.com/verbb/field-manager) versions available) which makes it super easy do to this, and in general provides a much better interface to manage fields.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks.  I've now got the Field Manager plugin.  Whenever I clone a group or the individual fields, does the plugin handle distinct naming, or is it up to the user to handle the naming?  
> **username_1**: You have to give each field a unique handle, as I said in my reply. The label can be different, though.  

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