# Adding more sections & Customizable Widgets to the Clinician Dashboard

**URL:** <https://talk.openmrs.org/t/adding-more-sections-customizable-widgets-to-the-clinician-dashboard/9954>\
**Category:** Reference App\
**Created:** [February 7, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/adding-more-sections-customizable-widgets-to-the-clinician-dashboard/9954 "2017-02-07T06:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/darius/32/8082_2.png) [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/adding-more-sections-customizable-widgets-to-the-clinician-dashboard/9954/16 "2017-02-23T23:52:25Z")

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> [@ssmusoke](#):
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> 1. Can the app templates be inherited, which means that authors do not have to add all fields to all templates

I don’t think so. Are you sure “app template” is right for this, though? A widget isn’t an app…

> [@ssmusoke](#):
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> 2 . Can application definitions be inherited so that instead of copying all the contents of an appId, I can extend it overwriting the parameters that I need.

We have a disconnect here. I would not expect each widget to be an app or an app template. My current thinking is somewhere in [this post](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/patient-summary-widgets-sprint/10225/2).

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