[3.x-5.x]: Save as New Entry Should Clear Slug #17918
Description
What happened?
Description
Clients often don't want to start from scratch when creating new entries so one of the easiest ways to get started is to do a save as. This mostly works.
However when creating a new entry from an existing entry, the donatee's slug isn't automatically cleared out so we end up with slugs like whatever-service-name-2 instead of the actual title they do end up entering. This is rarely, if ever, optimal or what you want.
No matter how many times I've asked clients to clear the slug before saving, it's a detail they up forgetting.
I know there's ways to automatically set slugs based on the title every time an entry is saved or using URL formats but those solutions have their own sets of drawbacks.
It would useful if the default slug generation was improved when doing a save as. Craft already knows the duplicated entry is a draft, it seems trivial to clear the slug before presenting the editing screen. If the default behavior can't be edited, maybe it can check to see if the slug and the title don't match (or it's about to put -1 or -2 on it) and silently (or not so silently) fix the problem—it would probably really only need to do this on the first save/publish.
Steps to reproduce
- Pick an existing entry.
- Use the red drop-down menu and choose "Save as a New Entry"
- Experience the horror.
Expected behavior
Entry slugs should match the title upon first save.
Actual behavior
On duplicated entries the slug is already set even though the client may have entered a new title since.
Craft CMS version
5.8.17
PHP version
8.3
Operating system and version
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Image driver and version
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