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Every way of looking at your inventory — and why you no longer publish to see one
A view is one arrangement of your inventory: which assets it draws, how they are arranged, and how they are painted. The same assets can carry many views, and none of them copies the data — a view is a lens, not an extract.
Views in the studio nav is the home for every view except maps, which have their own section.
Render is not publish
Opening a view renders it, in the studio, immediately. You do not publish a view to look at it. Publishing is a separate, optional act that gives a view a URL and an audience — covered in Publishing.
What a new workspace starts with
A workspace arrives with a default view library rather than an empty page, grouped by shape:
| Group | View | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Tables | All assets | table |
| Visualisations | Coverage matrix | matrix |
| Visualisations | Dependency graph | graph |
| Search | Search | search |
These are marked Default. They are ready to open and ready to publish, and acting on one turns it into a view of your own — publishing a default view materialises it, after which it behaves like any view you created.
+ New view creates a view of a chosen type.
The view types
- Table — rows and columns, with the same sorting, filtering and column control as the Inventory grid
- Matrix — assets placed in cells by two fields. Choose the Type it draws, what forms the Rows and Columns, and what it is Coloured by
- Graph — assets as nodes and their relations as edges, laid out by connection rather than by position
- Search — a query surface over the workspace, for finding rather than browsing
- Map — assets pinned to a stable grid. Maps have their own section; see Maps
A view's controls sit above its canvas, and changing them changes the view for everyone who opens it — a view is shared, not personal.
Saving a grid as a view
The Inventory grid and the table view are the same surface, so a grid you have filtered and arranged can be kept without rebuilding it. Views > Save as new view in the grid toolbar creates a table view carrying the current filters, columns and sort, and it lands here.
Customizing
Customize on a view opens its configuration — the source it draws from and the options its type offers. What you set becomes the view's own arrangement, and is what a viewer sees when the view is published.