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Command to copy existing Item
It would be very nice to have a Shortcut/Command to copy an existing Item into the creation mask so that after creating it it would have the same attributes as the original item.
What page/feature is this about? Are you talking about ACE creation in the DACL page (copying the ACE) or object creation in "tree pages" (copying the attributes)?
If it's about object creation, yes, it's pretty rudimentary right now. My wish is to be able to improve the object creation page so that the object can be created with all necessary attributes in one go, instead of having to fill them after creation.
It's a bit complex to implement and frankly it would demand some knowledge of the schema from the user, since creating an object with lots of attributes is more error-prone (due to schema restrictions) than creating it with default attributes and then setting additional attributes as needed, but I still think it's a valuable feature.
If it's about the DACL creation, it should be fairly easy to implement, since we just have to prefill the values of the selected ACE.
I'm closing this since there was no activity for some time now. If this issue is about object creation, it's really not trivial considering that each object class can have arbitrary uniqueness restrictions applied on them, thus it wouldn't work in manners that aren't predictable (at least for me at the current moment). To quote Active Directory docs:
Attribute uniqueness in AD Attribute uniqueness is enforced by constraints or pre-operation triggers that apply associated checks. The directory server performs checks on all update operations before it makes changes to the directory. Examples of update operations are Add, Modify, and Rename. Active Directory does not provide any means for identifying unique attributes. Some attributes are unique as a result of their specific processing rules defined by the protocols. In a broader AD view, this translates into associated constraints and triggers applied to objects during replica update operations. These rules depend on objects and may apply to a naming context (NC), a container, a distinguished name (DN), a domain, or an entire forest, etc.
(Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/pt-br/archive/blogs/openspecification/understanding-unique-attributes-in-active-directory)