🎨 Formaloo templates are a great way to get started quickly. Each template gives you a ready-made setup – whether it’s a portal, a form, a survey, or a full-blown internal workflow.
Sometimes, though, one template isn’t enough. For example, you might have grabbed a Client portal template, but then also stumbled upon few others that you'd like to incorporate in your portal flow, e.g.:
A Client onboarding form from another template
A Client feedback form from a third template
When you add templates to your workspace, each one is created as a separate project. This can feel confusing if your goal is to bring everything together into one app.
ℹ️️ Whenever you grab a template, it creates a new separate project in your workspace, but the forms inside it are available across your entire workspace.
This means you can connect forms from different templates into a single project and build a unified app or portal.
How combining templates works
Instead of merging projects, you’ll:
Pick one project as your main app or portal
Add new pages to structure your app
Connect forms from other templates by adding them on the main project's pages
This way, you keep everything consolidated in one place while taking advantage of ready-made templates that may fit different parts of your flow.
Step 1: Copy templates to your workspace
Start by copying all the templates you want to use from 🎨 Formaloo template gallery. Each template will:
Be added to your workspace as a separate project
Include one or more forms
Have its own structure and pages
At this stage, don’t worry about them being separate – you’ll connect them in the next steps.
ℹ️ Already have an app? You can enrich and expand it with templates as well:
If you’ve built your project from scratch and just found a template that fits a new part of your flow, you can:
Grab the template to your workspace
Open your existing project
Create a new menu section or just a new page for that part of the flow
Connect the form from the template to that page (along with any desired data blocks)
This works exactly the same way as combining multiple templates – you’re just plugging a new piece into your existing app.
Step 2: Choose your main project
At this point, decide which project you want to build on. This can be:
A template you’ve just added
Or an existing project you’ve already been working on
Pick the one that best matches your desired structure (for example, a client portal), and use it as your main app.
From here, you’ll expand it by adding pages and connecting forms from other templates.
Step 3: Add menus and pages to your app
Open your main project and start adding pages for each missing part of your workflow.
For example:
Onboarding
Feedback
Support requests
Etc
These pages will act as entry points for the forms you’ll connect next.
💡 You can easily customize menus, pages, and layout of your app/portal anytime to fit your desired user journey.
Step 4: Add forms from other templates
Now you can connect forms from any other projects into your main project.
On any page in Edit mode:
Type
/formor click the + buttonSelect the Form block
Search for the form by its title
Select it to add it to the page
ℹ️️ You can select any form in your workspace – even if it originally came from a different project or template.
💡 If you're combining multiple forms from different templates, you can use workspace themes to keep everything on-brand and consistent across your entire app:
Step 5: Display and manage form data
You can also display submissions from newly-connected forms inside your app in any way that fits your user journey or internal needs:
On any app/portal page, add a data block using a + button or a / command menu:
Type
/tableto show responses in a tableType
/kanbanto visualize workflows in a kanban board
After adding the block:
Choose the form you want to connect
The block will display its data automatically
This lets you build dashboards, workflows, or internal views based on the forms you’ve connected.
💡 Want to refine how your data is displayed?
Learn how to sort and filter your data in tables and boards
Explore different ways to customize forms and organize data in your portal
What this setup allows you to do
By combining templates this way, you can:
Build a full app or portal from multiple templates
Reuse forms without duplicating them
Keep everything organized in one place
Mix and match templates based on your needs
Bottom line
Templates that happened to suite specific parts of your flow don’t need to stay isolated. Even though each template creates its own project, you can easily consolidate all forms into a single app.
Pick one project as your base, add missing menus or pages, and link forms from other templates – and you’ll have a fully combined app without rebuilding anything from scratch 🧡