# Why cant templates of choices not import other template choices?

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/why-cant-templates-of-choices-not-import-other-template-choices/6424>\
**Category:** Icinga Director\
**Tags:** host-templates, choices\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/why-cant-templates-of-choices-not-import-other-template-choices/6424 "2021-01-08T20:48:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![blindzero](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/blindzero/32/134_2.png) [@blindzero](https://community.icinga.com/u/blindzero)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/why-cant-templates-of-choices-not-import-other-template-choices/6424/1 "2021-01-08T20:48:54Z")

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Hi everybody,

I have templates organized for “host” (~ purpose), “network” and “os”.  
Each of them has some kind of hierarchy to implement inheritance.

- os \> os-win \> os-win-2008r2 | os-win-2012 | os-win2016
- os \> os-lin \> os-lin-ubu \> os-lin-ubu1804 | os-lin-ubu2004

To assure the import order and choice rules I wanted to use “choices”.  
But choices have a big disadvantage as I found out:  
You can not import a template which is used in a “choice”. This would lead to the issue that e.g. fields and rules need to be defined for each and every choice template again and again and again…

Do I miss something or why is that rule implemented? For me it does not make sense this way.  
I would expect:

- templates of choices can import other choice-templates
- templates not member of a choice can import other templates which are not member of a choice

Best,  
Matthias