# Duplicating a Batch Journey

Marketers might need to modify a live journey based on the performance of specific campaigns within the journey or if they need to end particular campaigns. To alter a live journey, marketers can create a version of the journey.

This topic includes:

* [Limitations](/products/customer-data-platform/journey-orchestration/batch/duplicating-a-batch-journey#limitations)
* [Create a New Batch Journey Version](/products/customer-data-platform/journey-orchestration/batch/duplicating-a-batch-journey#create-a-new-batch-journey-version)
* [Journey Version Workflow Details](/products/customer-data-platform/journey-orchestration/batch/duplicating-a-batch-journey#journey-version-workflow-details)


# Limitations

* You can only create versions of batch journeys.
* You can only create one draft version of a journey at a time; no more than one draft version can exist within a journey simultaneously.
* Customer journeys support up to five versions. If five versions exist, you must delete an existing version to create a new version.


# Requirements

* A journey must be live to make a new version.
* Marketers must have edit permissions to create a new version.


# Create a New Batch Journey Version

When your administrator enables Journey Versioning, all existing journeys are automatically renamed version 1 journeys (for example, *journeyname* v1).

1. Open TD Console.
2. Navigate to the **Audience Studio**.
3. Select a parent segment and then open an existing live journey.


Live journeys have a solid, complete journey icon ![](/assets/creating-a-batch-journey-version-2024-05-01-1.b3f9ec286cc045753f266b03288f6bc1137dda051edec5c1fdcdfbdb2231a113.9e7171ae.png)

1. Choose one of the following:


* Select the ellipses (...) in the upper-right menu and then select **Create new version.**
* Right-mouse-click the journey and then select **Create new version**.


Journey Versioning automatically applies a version number to the current journey name.

![](/assets/creating-a-batch-journey-version-2024-05-01-2.05dad7c82ee81e706d8120ee627c54931217449a406185342c79c5b68ea8e975.9e7171ae.png)

1. (Optional) Rename the journey version name.
2. Select **Create**. The new version is in draft state.


The versioning of a journey is similar to copying a batch journey. Review the following table to determine what you can and cannot change in the journey and its events.

| Object | Editable | Non-Editable |
|  --- | --- | --- |
| Journey version name | X |  |
| Stage names |  | X |
| Stage configuration |  | X (No stage additions, deletions, or reordering) |
| All other events in the journey version (Activations, Wait steps, Decision points, Merge, Jump, A/B testing, End) | X |  |


1. When you are finished making changes to your version, select **Launch**.


You can only create one draft journey version at a time. Therefore, you must launch the latest journey version before creating another version.

# Journey Version Workflow Details

* **Journey Versions** : After launching a version, it becomes the latest version.
* **Profile Workflows** :
  * **New Profiles to a Journey** : Profiles new to the journey will enter the latest version.
  * **Existing Profiles in a Journey** : Existing profiles that have already entered a previous version will stay in the version until they exit the journey.
  * **Profile Journey Re-entry** : Profiles that exit and later re-enter the same journey will re-enter the latest journey version.
    * **Journey Re-entry Timing** : Journey re-entry does not happen on the same day. For example, if profiles exit a journey (v1) and a new version (v2) has been created, the profiles that meet the entry criteria again enter the latest version (v2).
  * **Profile Jumps** : If profiles jump to a different journey with versions, the profiles enter the latest journey version.