appsmithorg/appsmith · error · Error

Could not find action to copy

Error message

Could not find action to copy

What it means

Generic Error thrown by the copy-action flow when actionObject is falsy before building the duplicate payload. The source action to copy could not be located by the preceding selectors, so Object.assign and the network call are skipped.

Source

Thrown at app/client/src/sagas/ActionSagas.ts:787

  if (!parentEntityId || !parentEntityKey) return;

  const newName: string = yield select(getNewEntityName, {
    prefix: name,
    parentEntityId: destinationEntityId,
    parentEntityKey,
    suffix: "Copy",
    startWithoutIndex: true,
  });

  const destinationEntityIdInfo = generateDestinationIdInfoForQueryDuplication(
    destinationEntityId,
    parentEntityKey,
  );

  if (objectKeys(destinationEntityIdInfo).length === 0) return;

  try {
    if (!actionObject) throw new Error("Could not find action to copy");

    // At this point the actionObject.id will be the id of the action to be copied
    // We enhance the payload with eventData to track the action being copied
    actionObject = enhanceRequestPayloadWithEventData(
      actionObject,
      action.type,
    ) as Action;

    const copyAction = Object.assign({}, actionObject, {
      name: newName,
      ...destinationEntityIdInfo,
    }) as Partial<Action>;

    // Indicates that source of action creation is copy action
    copyAction.source = ActionCreationSourceTypeEnum.COPY_ACTION;

    delete copyAction.id;
    delete copyAction.baseId;

View on GitHub (pinned to 8cd9021c24)

Solutions

1. Refresh the page and retry the copy.
2. Confirm the source action is still listed in the entity explorer before copying.
3. If reproducing consistently, check that the redux action payload carries a valid source id.

// Before invoking copy, confirm the source action is present
if (!sourceAction) {
  showAlert('Source action not found; refresh and try again', 'error');
  return;
}

When it happens

Trigger: User triggers 'Copy query' on an action whose record was already removed from the store; the source id resolved to undefined due to a selector mismatch; copy invoked during a page switch.

Common situations: Right-click copy on a row that was just deleted by a collaborator; git branch switch left stale state; bulk delete outran the copy dispatch.

Related errors

• Could not find action to update
• Widget ${payload.widgetName} not found
• Unable to create Actions

AI-assisted analysis of appsmithorg/appsmith@8cd9021c24 (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/970c0dd27c0b6979. Report an issue: GitHub.