# How would you hand two contexts for the same view?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978 "2024-06-08T11:12:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![sumgii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sumgii](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sumgii)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 11:12am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978/1 "2024-06-08T11:12:07Z")

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Clients and I both use the glideapp we’ve built. They use it to manage their own involvement in our work. I use it to manage multiple clients.

There are often views that we both use. One I am working on at the moment is a risk register. Whether I am looking at the risk register for a particular client or they are the view is essentially the same. The only difference is that I can see it for multiple companies as a “advisor” level user.

I currently handle such view like this:

- Create the client view. Rely on owner columns the pull the relevant data. Their path is effectively Client-home → Risks

- Create a second view for me, that is a “drill down” from a client screen . My path is then effectively Advisor-home-\> Clients → Risks so that the screen knows what client I am looking at.

This works, but it making maintenance/change hard (as lots of things are duplicated).

Outside of Glide I’d probably look at either template blocks or storing the client of interest in a session variable. I believe neither are possible here.

I feel like there is probably a way of be passing another variable down the navigation path (like I might with a get var in a traditional web app). I can’t figure out the Glide approach though.

Otherwise the only approach I can think of is to store the current client of interest in data, change any client navigation to have a custom action to change that variable and lose breadcrumbs for “advisor” level users. Feels unwieldly.

Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978/2 "2024-06-08T16:13:52Z")

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Not sure if this applies, but have you considered using the deeplink of the screen to get context?  
https://www.loom.com/embed/cdf1ad9dbcad4c4ea91d542f450cbbde

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**Author:** ![sumgii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sumgii](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sumgii)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978/3 "2024-06-08T17:21:24Z")

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I’m not sure if that applies either yet. I’m thinking it through. VERY interesting though. I will definitely be using that at some point, whether it is for this issue or another.

Thanks so much. I was half the way through that when I realised you recorded it for me. Amazing.

I’ll go back over the issue with this new information in mind.

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978/4 "2024-06-09T02:13:07Z")

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So in your Client-home tab and Advisor-home tab you’re displaying an item/a button for people to go to the Risks part?

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**Author:** ![sumgii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@sumgii](https://community.glideapps.com/u/sumgii)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-would-you-hand-two-contexts-for-the-same-view/73978/5 "2024-06-09T09:02:03Z")

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For clients it sits in the top navigation.

For admin I have a collection of clients on the home dashboard. That links to a view for each client. This will include a widget of the top risks that will link to the full risk view for each client.

Does that make sense?