Compatibility with Field Collections

I'm having the same problem using Panelizer and Page Manager

I'm going to work on the Panelizer compatibility on Monday-ish, will report back in #2375563: Compatibility with Node Clone.

The problem is that the fieldable panels panes id is just copied as it. I had to loop through all of the FPP, clone them and then assign the new ids to the new node. If you need to see my implementation I'd be glad to share it but I'm afraid is not a general solution.

I'm honestly not sure how field collections are implemented. This is not something I would really expect to work OOTB.

Please indicate if you are willing to provide a patch for Field Collections support, otherwise I'll just close this.

I don't think this will work out of the box ether, this is the code I'm using in case anyone needs it:

<?php
function your_module_clone_node_alter(&$node, $context) {
	$original = $context["original_node"];

	if($original->type == "your_content_type")	{
		if(isset($node->panelizer["page_manager"]->display)) {
			$node->panelizer["page_manager"]->display->uuid = uuid_generate();

			foreach($node->panelizer["page_manager"]->display->content as $entity) {
				$entity->uuid = uuid_generate();

				if($entity->type == "fieldable_panels_pane") {
					// clone each fpp and then assign the new fpid in the form of fpid
					list($subtype, $fpid) = explode(":", $entity->subtype);

					if($subtype == "fpid") {
						// Load the entity
						$fpp = fieldable_panels_panes_load($fpid);

						// Create a new entity based on the same entity
						$fpp->fpid = null;
						$fpp->created = null;
						$fpp->timestamp = null;

						$newEntity = fieldable_panels_panes_save($fpp);

						// Assign the new id to the $entity->subtype
						$entity->subtype = "fpid:" . $newEntity->fpid;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}
?>

Lets simplify this request. The desire is for data stored in Field Collections to be exportable via Node Clone.

FYI Field Collections are stored as an entity object. And I don't think this issue should be closed until it's made to work.

@DamienMcKenna - I really don't think this belongs in the base module. Field collections are neither simple to copy (I expect) nor part of core or very central contrib.

So, do you think Field Collection should implement hook_clone_node_alter() to load the full objects prior to cloning?

Did you look at the add-on module referenced here: #2279659: Point users to the Field Collection Node Clone module

.. oh. I wish they'd built it as a patch for either Node Clone or Field Collection, rather than needing a third module.