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title: "Template Composition"
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# Template Composition

> <IUCard title="Template Composition" link="https://www.inductiveuniversity.com/video/template-composition/7.9" />

## Templates Within Templates

You can embed templates inside of other templates. The nested template behaves like a component. This can be useful if the project can be broken down into many similar, small parts. Instead of building a template for a tank with a guage, a motor with a guage, and a compressor with a guage, it might instead be better to first build a simple guage template that can then be added to each of three templates so that it already is setup correctly.

### To Nest a Template Inside Another Template

1. Drag an existing template from the **Project Browser** into the template that you are currently working on.

2. Bind the nested template properties to the properties located on the parent template's **Custom** properties such as UDT parameters.

I can easily use an indicator template that I made to display values from a motor template, or values from a tank template, as long as I setup the indicator template with the proper indirection. This way, I only have to setup the indicator once and write in a few parameters, instead of having to customize the indicator the same way for every template that it gets added to.

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