i wrote a clone thingy (scontrol) , you will have pull it out of the package it's in, then modify it, then probably re-write it, but here you go

https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a03300000036TtfAAE

you basicaly do this :

 query into an sobject, the record using all the fields that are not readonly
 remove the ID from the sobject
 pass this same object to sforce.connection.create()

if you do this simply, you don't get the related objects ( deep clone) , but it sounds like you don't want that.

here are some snippets
Code:

function init() { 
  var qbean = new sforce.SObject("SFDC_Action_Plan__c");
 
  var desc = sforce.connection.describe('SFDC_Action_Plan__c'); // need field defs
 
  var qfields = desc.toUpdateFieldNames(); // list the editable fields , skip the read only
  var soql = "select Id," + qfields + " from SFDC_Action_Plan__c where id = '{!SFDC_Action_Plan__c.Id}'";

 queryResult = sforce.connection.query(soql); 

// more stuff removed here, see scontrol

}

// create the new record
function clone(src) { // returns one record
 var clean = src;
 delete clean.Id;
 var dst = sforce.connection.create([clean]);
 throwUnless(dst);
 var ret = dst[0];
 return ret;
}


// and a helper function ( note uses dojo ) 

// return list of fields used to create a clone
sforce.Xml.prototype.toUpdateFieldNames = function () {
   var sb = [];
   this.eachField(  
    function (f) { 
     if (f.getBoolean('updateable') || f.getBoolean('createable') )
      { 
       sb.push( f.name); 
      }
    } 
   );
   
   var ret = sb.join(', ').replace(/[, ]+$/g,'');
   return ret;
}

sforce.Xml.prototype.eachField = function (iterator) {
  for (var f in this.fields) {
        var field = this.fields[f];
        if (field) iterator(field);
  }

}

Message Edited by Ron Hess on 07-26-2007 04:46 PM