# How to build one collection for all nested sections?
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950 "2020-09-01T07:19:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Troy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Troy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/1 "2020-09-01T07:19:44Z")
Based on [this answer](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/pagination-for-nested-sections/27938/2) I want to know how to build one collection for all nested section?
At the moment my setup looks like this, which prints a list of all (nested) sections:
_list.html_
```auto
{{ range .Section }}
{{ .Title }}
{{ partial "children.html" . }}
{{ end }}
```
_children.html_
```auto
{{ $child_pages := union .Sections .Pages }}
{{ range $child_pages }}
{{ .Title }}
{{ partial "children.html" . }}
{{ end }}
```
I want so save all nested sections in one (!) collection so that I can later range over it like
```
{{ range $allsections }}
{{ .Title }}
{{ end }}
```
After reading through the docs I think I might need [Scratch](https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2017/04/hugo-scratch-explained-variable/) to get the work done.
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### Author:  [@nfriedli](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/nfriedli)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/2 "2020-09-01T07:57:50Z")
Did you try something like:
```
{{ range where .Site.Pages "Kind" "section"}}
...
{{ end }}
```
The doc: [https://gohugo.io/templates/section-templates/#page-kinds](https://gohugo.io/templates/section-templates/#page-kinds)
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### Author:  [@Troy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Troy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/3 "2020-09-01T08:12:46Z")
The order of the pages is important (I need it like in the tree…the same order you have in a prev/next navigation).
In your solution I get all sections but only in alphabetical order.
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### Author:  [@jmooring](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/jmooring)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/4 "2020-09-01T09:40:47Z")
If you can’t share your repository, can you paste the ouput from `tree content`? Something like this?
```auto
content
├── articles
│ ├── articles-1.md
│ └── articles-2.md
├── recipes
│ ├── recipes-1.md
│ └── recipes-2.md
└── _index.md
```
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### Author:  [@Troy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Troy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/5 "2020-09-01T09:51:13Z")
```
content
- folder1/folder11/folder12
- folder2/folder21/folder22
```
…in every folder is an `_index.md`.
**I think I have found the solution. Maybe there is an easier one?**
_allsections1.html_
```
{{ $indexScratch := .Scratch }}
{{ range .Sections }}
{{ $.Scratch.Add "sections" (slice . ) }}
{{ partial "allsections2.html" (dict "indexScratch" $indexScratch "context" .) }}
{{ end }}
{{ range .Scratch.Get "sections" }}
-
{{ .Title }}
{{ end }}
```
_allsections2.html_
```
{{ $indexScratch := .indexScratch }}
{{ $child_pages := union .context.Sections .context.Pages }}
{{ range $child_pages }}
{{ $.indexScratch.Add "sections" (slice . ) }}
{{ partial "allsections2.html" (dict "indexScratch" $indexScratch "context" .) }}
{{ end }}
```
Thanks @regis for the amazing tutorial on [https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2017/04/hugo-scratch-explained-variable/](https://regisphilibert.com/blog/2017/04/hugo-scratch-explained-variable/)!
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### Author:  [@nfriedli](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/nfriedli)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/6 "2020-09-01T10:21:43Z")
> [@Troy](#):
>
> In your solution I get all sections but only in alphabetical order.
The recursive “function”:
```
{{ define "subpages" }}
{{ if .Pages }}
{{ range .Pages}}
{{ if eq .Kind "section" }}{{ .Title }}
{{ end }}
{{ template "subpages" . }}
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
{{ end }}
```
All pages from root sections:
```
{{ range .Site.Sections }}
{{ .Title }}
{{ template "subpages" . }}
{{ end }}
```
So you can choose the sort method you want (date, weight, etc.) in the `range` loops (for `.Site.Sections` and `.Pages` in subsections).
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### Author:  [@Troy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Troy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/7 "2020-09-01T10:25:59Z")
Does your solution result in ONE collection?
I need this collection for pagination (as discussed [here](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/pagination-for-nested-sections/27938/2)).
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### Author:  [@nfriedli](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/nfriedli)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/8 "2020-09-01T11:07:13Z")
> [@Troy](#):
>
> Does your solution result in ONE collection?
No, sorry. I forgot the pagination you need ☹
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### Author:  [@Troy](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Troy)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/9 "2020-09-01T11:14:47Z")
No problem. I always appreciate your help 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-build-one-collection-for-all-nested-sections/27950/10 "2020-09-03T11:14:56Z")
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