# Guidance for multi-page form entry workflow
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144 "2024-02-25T20:18:20Z")
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### Author:  [@stomgb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/stomgb)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144/1 "2024-02-25T20:18:20Z")
Hello fellow Gliders!
I am looking for guidance on how to load/work-with the same data (i.e row in a table) across multiple screens. I am building an app that allows a user to perform different interactions with a ‘case’. There is one ‘intake’ flow that creates the case, and then a user can later on looks at cases, select a case to perform different tasks on, etc. Each task will have it’s own flow in the app, will possible multiple screens.
I saw the example of the multi-step form which allows for multiple screens to write to the same row. But is there a concept of a global variable where I can set the key of the selected item (i.e the case) and then load/modify/write data in other screens related to this key?
For example, the intake workflow has a few stages - I’d like each stage to present on its own screen (for focus and simplicity), in each stage a user will either enter an input (e.g text), edit an existing value, or approve a computed output (generated text based on the user input).
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144/2 "2024-02-25T22:14:01Z")
> [@stomgb](#):
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> But is there a concept of a global variable where I can set the key of the selected item (i.e the case) and then load/modify/write data in other screens related to this key?
I really need to make a video on this. Yes!
Check out this video that shows how to use a template column + query column to reference the record of the screen you’re viewing (around 07:00).
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERVxDnpn4lU)
Otherwise, yes you can use a set column action to write the record of of your case in the users table.
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### Author:  [@stomgb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/stomgb)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 11:18am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144/3 "2024-03-01T11:18:03Z")
Thanks for replying Robert!
SOLVED: I was able to solve my issue!
I added an Active Case column to the Users table and also added a Relation column to the Cases table. The User profile columns are always available so this way I am able to go from Users to Cases from any screen in the app.
For the intake flow, I also didn’t need to use multiple screen eventually, but instead just used a single screen and the mutli-form pattern (using containers with conditional visibility instead of multiple layout screens).
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144/4 "2024-03-01T13:13:18Z")
To get different screens, use the “Show New Screen” action
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/guidance-for-multi-page-form-entry-workflow/71144/5 "2024-03-08T13:14:01Z")
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