diff --git a/cmd/serve/httplib/serve/data/data.go b/cmd/serve/httplib/serve/data/data.go
index 629835d05..e4840f8ed 100644
--- a/cmd/serve/httplib/serve/data/data.go
+++ b/cmd/serve/httplib/serve/data/data.go
@@ -9,9 +9,47 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
+
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs"
+	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/flags"
 )
 
+// Help describes the options for the serve package
+var Help = `--template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for http
+and webdav serve functions.  The server exports the following markup
+to be used within the template to server pages:
+
+| Parameter   | Description |
+| :---------- | :---------- |
+| .Name       | The full path of a file/directory. |
+| .Title      | Directory listing of .Name |
+| .Sort       | The current sort used.  This is changeable via ?sort= parameter |
+|             | Sort Options: namedirfirst,name,size,time (default namedirfirst) |
+| .Order      | The current ordering used.  This is changeable via ?order= parameter |
+|             | Order Options: asc,desc (default asc) |
+| .Query      | Currently unused. |
+| .Breadcrumb | Allows for creating a relative navigation |
+|-- .Link     | The relative to the root link of the Text. |
+|-- .Text     | The Name of the directory. |
+| .Entries    | Information about a specific file/directory. |
+|-- .URL      | The 'url' of an entry.  |
+|-- .Leaf     | Currently same as 'URL' but intended to be 'just' the name. |
+|-- .IsDir    | Boolean for if an entry is a directory or not. |
+|-- .Size     | Size in Bytes of the entry. |
+|-- .ModTime  | The UTC timestamp of an entry. |
+`
+
+// Options for the templating functionality
+type Options struct {
+	Template string
+}
+
+// AddFlags for the templating functionality
+func AddFlags(flagSet *pflag.FlagSet, prefix string, Opt *Options) {
+	flags.StringVarP(flagSet, &Opt.Template, prefix+"template", "", Opt.Template, "User Specified Template.")
+}
+
 // AfterEpoch returns the time since the epoch for the given time
 func AfterEpoch(t time.Time) bool {
 	return t.After(time.Time{})