From e8709c3ad0eb57cac6b0f05ca06776b5ea837a7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Imbert <diego@windmill.dev>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:24:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: default datatable fork behavior to keep_original

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/windmill-api-workspaces/src/workspaces.rs           | 4 ++--
 backend/windmill-common/src/workspaces.rs                   | 2 +-
 .../workspaceSettings/CreateWorkspaceInner.svelte           | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/windmill-api-workspaces/src/workspaces.rs b/backend/windmill-api-workspaces/src/workspaces.rs
index 7d08d00470..31b0ac584c 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api-workspaces/src/workspaces.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api-workspaces/src/workspaces.rs
@@ -1744,7 +1744,7 @@ async fn fork_resource_datatable(
 }
 
 /// Fork all datatables from a source workspace into a target workspace.
-/// Uses per-datatable behaviors from the provided map, defaulting to SchemaOnly.
+/// Uses per-datatable behaviors from the provided map, defaulting to KeepOriginal.
 async fn fork_all_datatables(
     db: &DB,
     source_workspace_id: &str,
@@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ async fn fork_all_datatables(
         let behavior = datatable_behaviors
             .as_ref()
             .and_then(|m| m.get(name).copied())
-            .unwrap_or(DataTableForkBehavior::SchemaOnly);
+            .unwrap_or(DataTableForkBehavior::KeepOriginal);
 
         if behavior == DataTableForkBehavior::KeepOriginal {
             continue;
diff --git a/backend/windmill-common/src/workspaces.rs b/backend/windmill-common/src/workspaces.rs
index 61952fc9ac..6b26528c56 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-common/src/workspaces.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-common/src/workspaces.rs
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ pub enum DataTableForkBehavior {
 
 impl Default for DataTableForkBehavior {
     fn default() -> Self {
-        DataTableForkBehavior::SchemaOnly
+        DataTableForkBehavior::KeepOriginal
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/CreateWorkspaceInner.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/CreateWorkspaceInner.svelte
index 3f0e1dadd1..2144bbf713 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/CreateWorkspaceInner.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/CreateWorkspaceInner.svelte
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@
 				return
 			}
 
-			// Build datatable behaviors map, defaulting to schema_only
+			// Build datatable behaviors map, defaulting to keep_original
 			const behaviors: Record<string, 'schema_only' | 'schema_and_data' | 'keep_original'> = {}
 			for (const dt of allDatatables.current ?? []) {
-				behaviors[dt] = datatableBehaviors[dt] ?? 'schema_only'
+				behaviors[dt] = datatableBehaviors[dt] ?? 'keep_original'
 			}
 
 			try {
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@
 								<Select
 									dropdownClass="max-w-96"
 									bind:value={
-										() => datatableBehaviors[dt] ?? 'schema_only',
+										() => datatableBehaviors[dt] ?? 'keep_original',
 										(v) => (datatableBehaviors[dt] = v)
 									}
 									items={[