Hi. I am building a software prototype and on frame 14, I have a template. You
can get to the template via a button that appears on frames 1-13. However, I
need a script that would allow the user to return to the frame they linked to
the template from. As it stands now, I can only get it to go back to a specific
frame. So if I make frame 1 the specific frame to return to, it is confusing to
the user unless they originally came from frame 1.

Is it possible to put the template on a separate layer versus a separate
frame? Then I could make the "go to template" button change the
visible/nonvisible state of the template layer?

Thanks for any help!

no, layers don't exist (as such) outside the authoring environment.

just use a variable to store the value of the current frame as they enter
each frame (except 14). use that variable's value to return them to the
previous frame.