# Perspective: Using the Flex Repeater like the Template Repeater

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**Created:** [May 7, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-using-the-flex-repeater-like-the-template-repeater/24721 "2019-05-07T03:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-using-the-flex-repeater-like-the-template-repeater/24721/1 "2019-05-07T03:58:43Z")

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8.0.0

I’m playing around with the Flex Repeater component, as I want to display a number of the same pump status View with different parameters. However when there are too many to display them at full height on the screen, I get scrollbars on each embedded View in the Flex component. What I want is to display them all at full height, and have a master scrollbar displayed instead. Is this possible?  
Otherwise, I can just stacked embedded Views directly into the Flex **Container** , but this won’t let me filter pumps out if I want to in the future like I would be able to do with the Flex Repeater…

E.g. below. the top 4 pump status components are contained in a Flex Repeater; the bottom 2 (1 is mostly cut off) are independent Embedded Views.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/d/d9a5771217af46e36db0fd29ab6f36a6904264d9.png)

PS. I realise that green is a bad colour for stopped. I’m just playing around at the moment 😉

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-using-the-flex-repeater-like-the-template-repeater/24721/2 "2019-05-07T16:47:56Z")

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Disclaimer: I’m not a css expert, but, you may just need to specify the right flex child properties? See: [https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/)

I would recommend playing around with browser developer tools (they’re incredibly powerful) first, to get the layout you want, then add it as necessary to Perspective.

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-using-the-flex-repeater-like-the-template-repeater/24721/3 "2019-05-07T23:36:36Z")

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Thanks Paul, I’ll have a look. I’m completely new to web development, so moving away from the coordinate space and into fluid positioning is a bit of a strange shift!