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Duplicating Entity Types

Learn how to duplicate entity types.

Written by Andrea Harvey

Updated at May 7th, 2025

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Overview Duplicating Entity Types

Overview

You can duplicate an existing regular expression or block list entity type and edit it to expedite creating additional entity types. However, the duplicate feature is unavailable for all other entity types.

Duplicating Entity Types

  1. Expand the Manage section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click Entity types.
  3. Locate the entity type you want to duplicate.
  4. Click the ellipses (…) in the Action column.
  5. Click Duplicate in the menu that displays.
  6. Click Yes when prompted to verify you want to duplicate the entity type.
  7. The entity type is duplicated with “-COPY” appended to the name.
  8. Click Edit on the tile that displays the entity type name.
  9. Edit the name as needed.
  10. Click Done to save the new name. The name on the card and at the top of the page reflect your edits.
  11. Make additional edits to the entity type as needed.
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