📑Reuse a Screen in Navigation
Put the same list or form in the tab bar / drawer more than once — then detach that extra tab when it needs its own filters or name.
This is for app makers editing navigation in the builder.
If you only remember one sentence:
Use Reuse screen when two tabs should stay in sync. Use Detach when that extra tab must diverge. Use Duplicate Screen when you want a separate copy from the start.
When to reuse vs duplicate vs detach
Same list in two places (for example Home and a group)
Reuse screen
One screen, two nav entries. Edits apply to both.
Same layout, but this tab needs different filters or a different name
Reuse, then Detach
The extra tab becomes its own screen.
Start from an existing screen and never keep them linked
Duplicate Screen
Immediate full copy (including secondary Details / forms).
Step 1 — Reuse a screen
Open the screen in the builder (the one that already lives in navigation).
In the screen title bar, click Reuse screen.
NotionApps adds a second nav entry. The new tab gets a copy of the icon and a slightly different tab name so you can tell them apart.
Open Edit Navigation and drag the extra tab where it belongs (another group, another role menu, or next to the original).
A banner on a reused screen says it is Also in navigation as the other tab names, with Detach to edit this copy only.
Step 2 — Edit while it is reused
Anything you change on the screen — Filtering, fields, appearance — applies to every nav entry that points at it.
That is the point: one Assets list reused under Field and Admin stays one list.
Step 3 — Detach when this tab must be different
Select the extra nav tab (the alias you want to split off).
Click Detach in the screen title bar. Detach only appears when the screen is in navigation more than once.
NotionApps clones that screen (and its secondary Details / forms) and points this nav entry at the clone.
The original tab keeps the original screen.
Now you can change filters on the detached copy without changing the original. Example:
Tab A: Assets, filter Status equals Open
Tab B (detached): Assets, filter Status equals Closed
Detach clones the screen After Detach you have two screens to maintain. If you only needed a second label in the menu, stay on Reuse.
Removing a reused tab
If a screen is in navigation more than once, deleting from the extra tab removes that nav entry only. The screen itself stays. Deleting the last remaining entry deletes the screen (and its secondaries) as usual.