SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Instant Reference

Create Views

A view in SharePoint controls how items in a list or library are displayed. At a basic level, the view sets the columns to be displayed (normally shown from left to right, like columns in a spreadsheet), how the items are sorted, and which items to filter. Views are used to help categorize and locate items within a single library. While creating views is easy, there are many optional settings that you can use.

Any list or library will have at least one view that is marked as the default. You can create new views as well; here are a few practical examples:

• Sales personnel who store their customer proposals in SharePoint can use separate views to manage the documents by region, salesperson, size, or type.
• Accounting staff can use ...