# How do I add 'elements:' in domain templates?

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-do-i-add-elements-in-domain-templates/416>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-do-i-add-elements-in-domain-templates/416 "2018-08-13T12:59:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjspeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mjspeck](https://forum.rasa.com/u/mjspeck)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-do-i-add-elements-in-domain-templates/416/2 "2019-03-21T01:02:05Z")

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Were you ever able to figure this out? I’m having a similar problem. I need to send back an additional argument in the response to my chatbot’s frontend and I figured elements is the way to do it. But now I have to send all the buttons as elements too and instead of a key:value pair each button just becomes a long string

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