Sigh, sometimes I wonder as an agency why bother with webflow.

This wish has been here for 8 years now. Is there still hope this gets updated? That would be such an improvement for most of our clients.

It would be great to have multiple page templates all pulling data from the same collection!

It’s mid 2024 and we still have this strange schema with a single template page per collection. I don’t event understand the use case where its enough.

I’ve tried to use Webflow to implement multiple landing pages based on CMS content. Unfortunately a landing page is not enough- I need order page with data from same collection record, I need confirmation page etc. It feels today CMS in webflow is not real, it’s usage is too limited.

Use cases for this are pretty limitless. Feels backwards that this feature is not available. This would also allow us to create secondary pages from within the collection template. For example a collection item would generate two pages, one that is the main landing page and second with a call to action that you can access from the first. Currently it looks like I have to manually create those pages every time a collection item is recorded. I see about 400 people wanting this feature, why is it still not available?

This is clearly mandatory in order to create programmatic SEO pages, and target multiple keywords combination based on CMS items data.

This would be helpful to allow an editor to input content once that feeds two different pages and use cases with the same slug for predictability.

Consider a restaurant database that has a /location/[slug] page for potential diners to find a restaurant, then a different page /thankyou-offer/[slug] to show an offer or discount code to people that DID dine there.

An editor listing a new restaurant could make one CMS entry, listing both the name and address of the restaurant for the location finder view, and the discount code and thank you offer at the same time.

Then two different template pages could pull their relevant fields from the same CMS collection item, but have the SAME SLUG but with a DIFFERENT PATH.

For example.

eat.com/locations/mamma-mia
eat.com/thankyou-offer/mamma-mia

The reason this is valuable, is that at the moment the editor creates the restaurant listing, both pages are created without double entry or risk of forgetting to create one or the other.

Also, the URL structure and slug is predictable, so if any external software points to this content, it can deduce the /thank-you/ slug address from the /locations/ slug for each item, and vice-versa.

There is specific benefit in one CMS collection driving two different templates with different URL addresses, rather than say one URL with a query string at the end, or a conditional display set within one template. This would make it easier and cleaner to report on traffic to the two different use cases, and also pixel/tag the templates differently, for example to retarget pre-diners differently to post-diners in paid media.

Is this already possible via any other means? If so, please let me know.

Please this would be so helpful as I am trying to make regional templates and links for versions for every item in a collection

This is much needed in my opinion. Been a while since this started!

We need this functionality to create a custom summary of the page and print it as PDF and different designs for some portions of the collections

We need to have SEO pages for each of clients PER collection. Unusable to not have this.

This is a HUGE PAIN POINT. Please fix this or we need to cancel our subscription and look for other solutions.

Please make this happen

What's the point of a CMS if the records can only be viewed on a single page??

Is this going anywhere? I'm working with users with low tech literacy who sometimes want to print pages, and I'd like to make a "print-friendly" version of my collection template. The website also needs to exist in two languages, and I was hoping to have one collection (so my org partner can input the English and Spanish at the same time/in the same place) with an English and Spanish version of the collection template. This could also be used for light/dark modes. I really hope y'all are considering this!

yeah, this is ridiculous. How can you launch an eCommerce builder without multiple product page types? Clearly, it shows you only care about single merchant stores and we should look elsewhere for serious solutions.

I agree.
@webflow, if you want to compete with wordpress on cms, or watch cms clients defect, do this already.

I was honestly pretty shocked when I got to the point in using CMS features for the first time to see that not only is a 'collection page' created arbitrarily that you can only copy & paste content into, but that one page is the only one you get to have.

It seems like it must have been a consession of some sort, like maybe things didn't go well when they were creating that area of functionality... so they settled for a limited feature? Well, it's a basic feature, everyone here thinks so. There's 247 votes at the moment saying so. It's absence has shaken my confidence in Webflow altogether so much that instead of being enamored with it, as I was when I first discovered it, I'm now exploring alternatives.

This is a serious problem. Please fix it. We need collection template pages, like yeserday. F*ing Wordpress has you beat on this.

I have mini courses database with materials and videos. I display everything on my website, but only a few are available for non members.

I would like to display the same database with all the materials and videos on another page, which is shown only for members, in another URL. I'm using memberstack for that.

I was annoyed in the first place that it creates the CMS page "auto-magically" the moment you create a CMS. It was totally unexpected behavior, impossible to predict. That you can't have any control at all and have to expect irrational behavior combined shows that this is a very broken part of the UX.