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alias: user-guide-clone-business-partner
description: "Clone existing business partners to create new instances with modified names and attributes"
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# Clone Business Partner

:lock: BusinessPartner.**Clone**

## Overview

This operation is used to clone an existing **Business Partner** into a new **Business Partner** with a different name and identical characteristics.

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* The Business Partner exists in the system.

## Sequence of Steps

The Clone Business Partner wizard can be called from the **Business Partner** page within the Business Data Group. The default values will be taken from the current **Business Partner** to be used as a base for the new object.

### Step 1: General Data

1. On the left side panel, add as many rows as desired (each row represents a new  **Business Partner** to be created based on the currently selected **Business Partner**) by selecting :material-plus: and specifying the property values for each new instance to be created. You can also provide a name for each of the new instances, however if a **Name Generator** is configured for the Entity Type, you can leave the field blank and a new name will be automatically generated.
2. Optionally, enter a comment for the operation.
3. Press **Clone** to complete the transaction and a new object will be created.

!!! info
	For more information on these and other features of cloning, see [Clone](../../general/clone.md).

![clone_business_partner][clone_business_partner]

[clone_business_partner]: images/clone_business_partner.png