Hi @Felipe
You are mixing concepts and functionalities. Duplicating a term (a specific record) is not the same as duplicating a branch (a parent children records).
When you are duplicating a record, you are add new one with the same relations that the original. You can think that the record will have the same relations because the concepts related are the same. For example:
The record 1 is a silver coin, the record has linked the material "silver". If I duplicate the coin record, I will get new silver coin, but I DON'T WANT duplicate the silver material that is linked to the main record, you want maintain the link to be exactly the same: silver. You will want to have 2 records coins calling to the silver material, and you don't want duplicate the silver concept.
So, the links need to be the same in both records. Right?
Children are links in the same way that material is a link into the coin so, In your case, you are duplicating the record, and the links (in this case the children) need to be the same as previous case.
Maybe In this point you are thinking that you want duplicate the branch, in different way than I explain for duplicate the record. But duplicate a branch has many implications, and lots of questions arise:
- do you want to duplicate only the literals? only in the parent?, in all children?
- do you want duplicate all children recursively (children of children)?
- does the term need to be duplicated?, only the term or do all other literals such as dates?
- will all other links such as bibliography be duplicated?
- do you want to duplicate the associated images or other media?
- and a long etc....
And, because is not possible to know what do you want to duplicated (too many combinations and too many exceptions and contexts), and as you can see, duplicating a thesaurus branch is not a trivial matter, it is not implemented in the way you are explain.
Do you want duplicate a thesaurus branch?
Export the branch, change/remove/add the data that you want, add new ids and re-import it.
I hope that will be clear.
best