Copy set of keywords across projects#537

It would be very helpful if we could copy keywords set in one project to another or create a keyword template and be able to import it.

Daniela– Good concept! I’m assuming the reason is, you have highly similar projects and find similar keywords? Or, do you have keywords that are similar across almost all projects?

In the meantime, if you have a highly similar old project, Nest Copy does carry over keywords and may enable you to pull in those keywords (along with any exclusion reasons or tags). I know that’s not a universal aid, but may help with configuring new projects with highly similar prior projects. Thanks!

This is an old one, but just wanted to add that I think our major use case here would be for keywords that indicate exclusion- we often add the same set for things like preclinical terms, case reports, other study types, and it would be convenient to add those all at once from a template, and then customize others for the project.

I hear you– how necessary would it be to have templates vs rapid copy over from a single project?

One thing we could put together pretty quickly is a copy/paste function for copying out the keywords from nest A and pasting them into B.

Templates are quite a bit more heavy weight and will be harder for us to prioritize relative to other development initiatives.

(I’d probably advocate for a dead simple comma-separated bulk entry system, meaning you could copy from one project, copy from an outside source, or manually construct a list of KWs directly in the input without slow individual additions)

Copy over from a project and/or comma separated would be great, I think that would be more useful than a template, actually! Then you could just grab the keywords from a project on a similar topic or with similar criteria, or build your own from a protocol.

Copy-out & list input of highlighting KWs was added in release 1.101.1. Thanks for the input & ideas!

Thanks!