# Referencing Clones **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [July 22, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/referencing-clones/152052 "2019-07-22T15:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![maxb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/maxb/32/35200_2.png) [@maxb](https://community.thunkable.com/u/maxb)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/referencing-clones/152052/2 "2019-07-22T16:05:21Z")
I was just going to post a thing similar to yours: I’d like to clone entire rows or columns that have multiple buttons and label inside but I don’t think that it’s possible to have a reference to them in any way right now unless you copy and position alla of them one by one, which is not that crazy now that I think about it, but it’s way more work that there would be needed with for example a name component block, Here’s the ending comment on a problem I’m having that would have made me use way many blocks. > [@Renaming isn't... real? Problem with any component blocks](http://community.thunkable.com/t/renaming-isnt-real-problem-with-any-component-blocks/146234/43): > > @maxb I think I understand what you’re trying to do and it makes sense to me. There are a couple of upcoming features that should help you. One is a block which would return the name of a component. That would, presumably, let you do exactly what you described. The other is the ability to add your own properties to a component, so you could, for instance, add a food property on your buttons which could have a value of “pizza” or “hamburger”. That would allow you to name your buttons whatev… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/referencing-clones/152052)._