# Best Practice - How to Duplicate Multiple Rows?

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-practice-how-to-duplicate-multiple-rows/72283
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [April 3, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-practice-how-to-duplicate-multiple-rows/72283 "2024-04-03T18:20:58Z")
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### Author: ![\_eric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/5f9b8f/32.png) [@\_eric](https://community.glideapps.com/u/_eric)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-practice-how-to-duplicate-multiple-rows/72283/1 "2024-04-03T18:20:58Z")

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Hello Glide Community,

I’m seeking advice on the most efficient method for simultaneously duplicating several rows (or records) in Glide. I’m particularly interested in cases where a parent database is linked to multiple child data records. My goal is to duplicate both the parent record and all its corresponding child records in one go. Creating a copy of both the parent record and a copy of all the child records.

Could anyone guide me on how to achieve this?

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### Author: ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-practice-how-to-duplicate-multiple-rows/72283/2 "2024-04-03T23:46:14Z")

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Do you have access to the Glide API? I think this would be doable either with a Call API action (and a structure to generate the API call’s body), or a [Make.com](http://Make.com) scenario.

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### Author: ![DarrenHumphries](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darrenhumphries/32/91715_2.png) [@DarrenHumphries](https://community.glideapps.com/u/DarrenHumphries)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/best-practice-how-to-duplicate-multiple-rows/72283/3 "2024-04-04T14:12:19Z")

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Perhaps this method can help you with this: [Using Call API and Glide API to add rows to related tables. Also...JSON Object!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/using-call-api-and-glide-api-to-add-rows-to-related-tables-also-json-object/70860)

In it I’m using Call API and Glide API to create a parent record and a number of related records with one action.