
View editor
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Whenever you browse a database's content in the *data viewer*, you are
looking at one "view" of the data.  A view is a subset of the columns
in the database, displayed in a particular order and with specified
display widths.  Each database has a default "All Columns" view which
shows all the columns in the database in the same order as they appear
in the *row editor*.

Views are defined using the view editor dialog.  At the top of the
dialog is a text box containing the name of the view; changing this
renames the view.  Next are droplists allowing you to pick a default
sorting and/or filter that will be applied whenever you switch to this
view; selecting "No default sorting" and "No default filter" leaves
the current sorting and filter unchanged.  (This avoids the need to
select a view, then a sorting, then a filter if there are certain
combinations of these that you use often.)  Below those is a table
showing the names of all the columns in the database, with a checkbox
next to each indicating whether or not it is included in this view.
Click this checkbox to include or exclude the column.  There are "Up"
and "Down" buttons for moving the selected row up or down in the
table, changing the order of the columns in the view.  Click
"OK"/"Done" to accept the currently shown settings, or cancel out of
the dialog to revert to the previous values (or to cancel adding a new
view).
