# Using a template without navigating to its page/collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [February 26, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/using-a-template-without-navigating-to-its-page-collection/1751 "2025-02-26T09:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Russ](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.noloco.io/russ/32/604_2.png) [@Russ](https://community.noloco.io/u/Russ)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 9:15am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/using-a-template-without-navigating-to-its-page-collection/1751/1 "2025-02-26T09:15:04Z")
Explained in this loom: https://www.loom.com/embed/3500cec4bf604d768edbe0a0e74fa45e **Problem:** - We want a master template for a type of record to re-use across different navigation areas - Noloco makes you navigate to the source of the template that you want to use (navigating away from where you are) - Users are confused and taken away from the section they were just in. **Proposed solutions:** - Completely separate the concept of a Template from where the data for that template lives - Allow re-use of a Template in another navigation tree (and keep the URL/tab within the section you’re in) - Allow a collection/view to “sync with” another type of template so that the developer only needs to maintain one I’m sure you have thoughts / roadmap items on this so I’d love to hear what you’ve exploring here. ---
**Author:** ![EthosLuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/46a35a/32.png) [@EthosLuke](https://community.noloco.io/u/EthosLuke)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 9:39am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/using-a-template-without-navigating-to-its-page-collection/1751/2 "2025-02-26T09:39:00Z")
Great request, this is very much needed as the dev experience of managing multiple views atm is quite a nightmare.