# Critical Features that will save countless hours of development - Link to Tab Action + Reuse Forms **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [August 1, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406 "2020-08-01T13:54:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deena](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/deena/32/9877_2.png) [@Deena](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Deena)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/1 "2020-08-01T13:54:36Z")
The link to screen action is incredible, but you can only choose from source tabs in the sheet. I think it would be AMAZING and help us avoid a ton of rework when we have an app that ends up with too many tabs or generally if we want to redesign the user experience, to simply be able to link buttons and inline list items with independent screen config to APP TABS and not just SHEET TABS. My use case: I made the mistake of creating multiple tabs visible only to the admin and now I want to put them all inside one admin tab, but I have to rebuild all of the forms and custom text components, inline lists, etc that lived inside each tab. So this is gonna be my Saturday! 🙃 In complex apps, there would be many instances where over time there is a need to simplify the UX by reorganizing entire tabs. Glide team, I challenge you to watch this 8 min video in its entirety and feel a tiny fraction of the pain I will experience spending hours rebuilding because we cannot currently link/reorganize entire tabs (AND REUSE FORMS) that we’ve already spent hours and days building! 😩 By the way, this is not in any way a criticism, just an attempt to prioritize something that will surely be developed in the future! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![sardamit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/sardamit/32/263_2.png) [@sardamit](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sardamit)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/2 "2020-08-01T14:09:07Z")
I agree. This would also make it easy to create different layouts and versions of the same tab. ---
**Author:** ![noelboss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/noelboss/32/11499_2.png) [@noelboss](https://community.glideapps.com/u/noelboss)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/3 "2020-08-04T15:28:49Z")
This is truly a critical feature and would reduce the amount of work that is required to make a good app flow significantly and improve usability alot… Like Deena, i spent (lost) hours because of this… Also, alow us to save screens or single component configurations as templates… ---
**Author:** ![adelhammoud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/adelhammoud/32/5587_2.png) [@adelhammoud](https://community.glideapps.com/u/adelhammoud)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/4 "2020-08-04T18:07:40Z")
Totally support this request as well. Glide will most likely willl advise you to submit a new feature request via [https://features.staging.glideapp.io/](https://features.staging.glideapp.io/) I had a couple of relevant posts as well: > [@Saving a form and use it from multiple places](https://community.glideapps.com/t/saving-a-form-and-use-it-from-multiple-places/10442): > > How can I save a form and call it from multiple locations within Apps? > [@Can tabs within an app read from different google sheet files?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/can-tabs-within-an-app-read-from-different-google-sheet-files/9221): > > Sometimes, an app needs to read data from two different files. One way, of course, is to copy (no desired as this is too manual of a process) or link but linking between google sheets requires the source to be open. ideally, tab 1 of the app read from worksheet A of file X and tab 2 of the same app reads fro worksheet B of file Y. This way, we can have common data across apps reside in one common google sheet and we don’t need to duplicate or link data. Is this feature available? can we submit… Meanwhile, my advice is to (1) Setup G.S. based on Objects & Records and (2) build recursive relations structure within Google sheet with more of arrayformulas/commands - this is what I ended up using for my first commercial app [https://demo-ibs-box.com](https://demo-ibs-box.com) Good Luck! ---
**Author:** ![kyleheney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/kyleheney/32/41173_2.png) [@kyleheney](https://community.glideapps.com/u/kyleheney)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/5 "2020-08-06T22:25:04Z")
Please please please add the ability to save/re-use forms. I just ran into the issue today — I used the new ability to have different screen configurations from items in an inline list… though those screens are different, I want to include the same form button in each item details page so that I can link to my Contact Me form — which has a decent amount of configurations in it. ---
**Author:** ![Deena](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/deena/32/9877_2.png) [@Deena](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Deena)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/6 "2020-09-28T16:23:01Z")
Please vote for the ability to link new tabs to existing screens (meaning screens that are existing tabs with their layout already set; not just to sheets, which we can already do, but then we have to do all the layout work). > **[Feature Requests](https://features.staging.glideapp.io/dl/ewAiAHQAIgA6ADMALAAiAHMAIgA6ACIAYwBsAGEAcwBzAC0ARgBlAGEAdAB1AHIAZQBzACIALAAiAHIAIgA6ACIAQQBZAHIAMQAuAE8AcABtAFEAYgBPAEgAQQBQAFcAYQBBAHAAOQA1AGcAZwAiACwAIgBuACIAOgAiAEwAaQBuAGsAIAB0AG8AIABlAHgAaQBzAHQAaQBuAGcAIABzAGMAcgBlAGUAbgAiAH0A)** > > Feature requests for Glide Apps ---
**Author:** ![S\_C](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/s_c/32/12766_2.png) [@S\_C](https://community.glideapps.com/u/S_C)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/7 "2020-09-29T19:20:54Z")
Voted on it. ---
**Author:** ![George\_Mburo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/george_mburo/32/28227_2.png) [@George\_Mburo](https://community.glideapps.com/u/George_Mburo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/8 "2021-10-07T01:51:34Z")
Just getting into glide but. was the vid pulled? ---
**Author:** ![david](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/david/32/62831_2.png) [@david](https://community.glideapps.com/u/david)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/critical-features-that-will-save-countless-hours-of-development-link-to-tab-action-reuse-forms/13406/9 "2021-10-07T02:33:33Z")