In Webflow all CMS data is published either inside of a Collection List, or on a Collection Page. These provide the CMS context for your elements and determine what you can bind your elements and nested collection lists to.
Collection Pages publish a single item in the Collection as a distinct page, They are intended to be the most detailed representation of an individual Collection Item, for example;
By design, CMS templates work identically across all of the CMS items in that CMS collection.
The only things that vary between to instances of the page are-
Although those are significant limitations, you can do a lot with those capabilities- but always keep in mind that a template is a template- anything you change will affect all of the item pages generated from it.
WORKAROUND: See the lesson on Creating Variable Layout Options for some techniques on how to increase your layout flexibility with this design limitation.
The path structure of Collection Pages is always;
/collection-slug/item-slug
There is no way to exclude a Collection from generating Collection Pages. This means that even a Collection that is used as e.g. a Tags reference, will still generate Collection Pages.
WISHLIST - Allow Collection-Bound Pages Anywhere
SOLUTION: This limitation creates a significant issue for some site designs, particularly when they want semantic paths like /usa/illinois/chicago
. To remedy this, Sygnal has created a series of technologies we call Fluid Paths as part of our Hyperflow solution.