Lotus Notes® and Domino® 6 Application Development Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams 610, 611, and 612)

Creating, Modifying, and Troubleshooting Views

Views are design elements that present a sorted and/or categorized list of documents and serve as the primary way to access data in a Notes database. Keep in mind that every database must have a minimum of one view, known as the default view. A view may display all documents in the database, or it may use a selection formula to select a subset of the documents. Each row in a view represents one document in the database and users can double-click that row to open the underlying document. View types are summarized in Table 4.7.

Table 4.7. View Types

Type	Description
Shared	Shared views can be used by any user with at least Reader access to the database, unless specifically excluded through a view access ...