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# Duplicate an action or subflow

# Duplicate an action or subflow {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated March 12, 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Duplicate an action or subflow within a flow.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin or flow_designer

## About this task

This procedure can only duplicate an action or subflow within the current flow. You can't directly duplicate an action to move it from one flow to another. If you need to move content between flows, you can use one of these alternatives.

* Create a custom action that hard-codes the values you want to duplicate between flows. For more information about creating a custom action, see [Create an action in Workflow Studio](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/OQqBBG3jNnKFj0Kf0dvE5A "Create a reusable component to automate one or more steps of a process.").
* Convert one or more items in the current flow to a subflow. Call the subflow from each flow that needs the duplicated content. For more information about converting items to a subflow, see [Convert items to subflow](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/wenY7P60hfiAmBpbICvCyg "Convert consecutive items of a flow into a new subflow that preserves data pill references between the converted items. Update the original flow to replace the converted items with a call to the new subflow.").
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## Procedure

1. Navigate to AllProcess AutomationWorkflow Studio.
2. On the homepage, select Flows.
3. Select the flow containing the action or subflow that you want to duplicate.
4. Under Actions, point to the action or subflow that you want to duplicate, and then from the list of icons at the end of the line by the Data pane, select the duplicate action icon (![Duplicate action icon]()).  

## Result

Your selected action or subflow duplicates directly under itself. All configurations, including [transform functions](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Rnk38vm3sLblAarQEQ9Kzg "Transform data pill values without the need to write a script. Use transform functions to reformat text, perform mathematical calculations, sanitize potentially unsafe SQL statements, and serialize complex objects to raw XML."), are copied over to the duplicated action or subflow.

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