Views have many settings to help make it easier for you to quickly find the information that you need in a list or library. The following are the settings for SharePoint views. All settings are not available for all types of views. The settings for calendar views differ from other types of views.
The maximum number of items in a view is 5000. You can manage the number of items in a view by using the filter and item limit settings.
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Default view All lists and libraries have a default view, which is the view that people see when they go to the list or library. You can change the default view to any public view for that list or library. but you cannot set a personal view as the default view. To delete a view that is the default view, you must first make another public view the default for that list or library.
Note: If Make this the default view is not displayed on the create or edit view pages, you do not have the permissions to create a public view or the view is a personal view. To create a public view you need to be in the Designer group for the list or library, or have the equivalent permissions.
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Audience When you create a view, you can set the audience for the view to be Personal View or Public View. A personal view is a view that only you can see. A public view is a view that anyone can see.
You cannot change a personal view to a public view or a public view to a personal view. You can use a public view as the starting point for personal or public views. You can use a personal view as the starting point only for personal views.
If Create View is disabled when you try to create a view, you do not have the proper permissions to create a view. If Create View is available, but the Create a Public View option is disabled you need to be in the Designer group or equivalent permissions. With Create a Personal View, you need to be in the Member group for the list or library, or have the equivalent permissions.
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Columns The columns in a view contain the information that you need to see for list or library items. Columns, in combination with other features of views, such as filters, can help you see only the information that is most important to your work. This is especially helpful if the list or library contains lots of items.
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Gantt Columns Select the columns that will be in the Gantt view. Title is a required text field. Start Date, and Due Date are required date fields. When you select a column, such as Title, if no option displays in the drop-down list, you must create the column to support this view.
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Sort Set the order in which items appear in the view. You can have up to two criteria. For example, show the items in a task list sorted by priority and then by due date.
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Filter Configure a view to display a subset of the items in a list or library by filtering them with information in columns of the list or library. For example, a view can show the documents in a library that are for a specific project.
Tip: You can use calculated columns or filters that use calculations, such as [Today] to show items when the date matches today or [Me] to show items for the user of the view. You can also combine simple equations with functions. For example, to show items created in the last seven days, filter on the Created column, set the operator to is less than, and set the value to [Today]-7 (no spaces).
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Tabular View Provides check-boxes for each item so that users can select multiple list or library items to perform bulk operations. This can save lots of time if many items in a list or library must be changed. For example, a user can select and check out multiple documents.
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Group By Group list and library items by information in the columns. For example, group the items in a task list by priority and then percent complete.
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Totals Displays summary calculations for the columns in the view, such as: count, average, maximum, minimum. By setting the title column to Count in a document library, for example, the view will display the number of documents in the view and in the groups in the view. The columns that are available for totals and the settings available for each column differ depending on the type of column, such as number, and the type of list or library the view is being created for.
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Style Determines the layout for the view, such as newsletter. All styles are not available for all view types.
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Basic Table Displays items in rows.

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Boxed Displays the items in the list using a layout similar to business cards. This style is available only for lists.

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Boxed, no labels Similar to the boxed style, but the labels for the columns are not in the view. This style is available only for lists.
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Default The default view varies, depending on the type and configuration of the list or library.
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Document details Displays the files in a library using a layout similar to business cards. This style is available for most libraries, but not lists.

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Newsletter Displays items in rows with lines between the rows.

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Newsletter, no lines Displays items in rows of alternating shades, without the lines between the rows.

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Preview Pane Displays the name of the items on the left side of the page. When you point to the name of an item, the columns selected for the view are displayed on the right side of the page.

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Shaded Displays items in rows of alternating shades.

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Folders Select Show items in folders to display the list or library folders in the view with the items. Select Show all items without folders to display only the list or library items in the view, also referred to as a flat view. You may also be able to select whether the view that you are creating is applicable in all folders, in only the top-level folder, or in folders of a specific content type.
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Item limit You can specify how many items are displayed at the same time (batches) in each view or the total number of items that the view will display. The larger the batch of items in a view, the longer it takes to download in the browser.
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Mobile You can specify that this view is for mobile devices, is the default mobile view for mobile devices, and the number of items to display in the list view Web Part for this view. This option is not available for all lists and libraries. The view must be a public view.