Saving Changes to Views

You may find that you have several views that you make the same changes to every time you open it. For example, you apply a certain filter to only include data relevant to you, you sort in a different order than how it was published, and so on. Rather than having to make these changes every time you open the view you can choose to remember your changes as a custom view.

To remember your changes:

  1. Open an individual view that you want to save as a custom view.

  2. Modify the filters, sorts, zoom level, etc.

  3. Select Save on the custom views menu in the upper right corner of the view.

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Now every time you open the view it will automatically update the original view with your changes. Your custom view is related to the original view and does not stand alone on the server. That means that as the original view is updated or republished, your view is also updated. Additionally, if the original view is deleted from the server, your custom view is also deleted.

 

 

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The custom views menu displays in the upper right corner of the page when you look at an individual view. The title of the menu indicates the view you are looking at. For example, if you are looking at the view as it was published it will say Original View, however, if you are looking at the original view with the addition of your saved changes it will say My View.

Sharing your changes

You can choose to share your saved changes with others so they can quickly apply your set of changes to the original view.

To share your changes:

 

As you browse views on the server, you can see other people's saved views by selecting their name on the custom views menu. And of course, you can always return to the original view by selecting Original View. You can select Share again in the custom views menu to make your view private.

 

 

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Removing your changes

At anytime you can remove your saved changes and return to the original view. Removing your custom view does not affect the original view.

To remove your changes: