Title: Nested Fields Make Copied forms "Locked Down"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Nested Fields Make Copied forms "Locked Down"

 *  [chaderos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaderos/)
 * (@chaderos)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nested-fields-make-copied-forms-locked-down/)
 * With Visual Form Builder, if you make a copy of a form that has utilized the 
   nested feature, you can not add new fields to the copy or move the old fields
   around. You can edit existing fields only.
 * I made a bunch of copies of a long form with the hopes of customizing the forms.
   I got as far as deleting fields that were not applicable in the copies (which
   was a lot of work), then tried to add some and move old fields around. I couldn’t.
 * Now I am going back, undoing the nesting in the original long form and making
   copies of the form to redo my customized forms.
 * There needs to be a fix to the “locked in” feature of copied forms who’s parent
   utilized nested fields.
 * A good feature of the nested field should be the ability to delete the entire
   nest in a copied form if the nest is not applicable in the customized form. Otherwise
   some of us will have to un-nest the original form (tons of work), create the 
   copies, and delete dozens of irrelevant fields (also tons of work). This is costing
   me a day and a half of work.
 * This is the best form builder there is though because it includes uploads. Other
   forms are that use drag and drop for field creation to build forms are great 
   because you don’t have to move the newly created field after you create it.

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