Module 08 - Customizing Views Flashcards
What is the definition of a view?
A list of records, including the columns that are shown, query used to select the records and the fields used to sort the records.
What is a System View?
Special views created by CRM and used in specific parts of the application. Can be customized, cannot be deleted and additional system views cannot be deleted. Not displayed in view selector, and cannot be used on form or as list on dashboard.
What are some examples of system views?
Advanced Find View, Associated View, Quick Find View, Lookup View
What is a public view?
When a user navigated to an entity the user is shown the default view for that entity. The view that is last selected for an entity is remembers up until user selects a different view or signs out.
Where do public views appear in the list of views displayed to the user?
Public views appear in the System Views section even though they differ from actual System Views.
In the list of views, what does System Views mean?
Views available system-wide to all users.
What are My Views in the list of views?
Views available only to the user who created the view and to the users to whom the views are shared.
What happens to views when you add a custom entity?
CRM creates a set of public views, and you can create more later.
What does the default public views created on a custom entity depend upon?
Whether or not the entity is an activity, whether it is owned by users or teams (My), whether it participates in Connections or is configured for activity feed follows.
Public views created automatically by CRM can be modified and deactivated but not?
Deleted.
What kinds of public views can be modified, deactivated and deleted?
Public views created by a system administrator, system customizer or a user with appropriate privileges, or by importing a Solution.
If a Solution is deleted, the views in that Solution are?
Also deleted.
If a user has rights to read a record of a particular type (to user level), then the user can access what?
All the public views for that entity. Access levels assigned to the User’s Security Roles control the records that are shown to the user, even if they can access the view.
How can a user create a personal view?
Create Personal View link at bottom of list, or performing an Advanced Find search and Saving it.
Who can view personal views?
User themselves, and other Users and Teams the view is shared with.
Does the view selector list differentiate between views created by user and views shared to other users?
No, it does not.
Can you convert a personal view to a public view or vice versa?
Nope.
What is view filtering?
A view returning a subset of records based on a query / view filter for a single entity.
How does view filtering work?
Views use parameters in query to return records that depend on the context when a view is displayed or the value of the date field compare to current time.
What can view filters include?
Test that are on the fields in the entity, on the fields that are on the parent or child records associated through an N:N relationship.
What records shows in a view selected by a user?
Only records displayed are those which are included and to which the user has a minimum of read access according through the Security Roles or through record sharing.
In a view you can display a column for any field in the entity that the view is configured to display. Which includes what?
Can include primary/parent enttiy in 1:N relationship, cannot include columns in related child entities since you can’t select which of the child entities to show.
What should you ensure to remove in a view?
Redundant columns.
You can’t sort by what kind of columns?
Fields from a parent record.
What is the Advanced Find View?
Every entity has one, which can be used to create a personal view. Used to save time to ensure basic set of columns always included. Can override.
What is the Associated View for an entity?
It is displayed when a user navigates to a list of related records displayed in primary record form.
Most system entities and custom entities have how many Associated Views?
Just one. Can be modified. Can have more.
What is the Quick Find View?
Defines columns displayed for the records that match, and the fields in the entity that are searched for the text that is entered by the user.
Quick Find Views have two sets of columns, what are they?
View, Find.
When you enter text in the search, what happens?
Each find column is searched for records where the field value beings with the text entered by the user. You can only select find columns from the fields on the entity, and not from other associated entities.
What does the (*)asterisk do in a search?
Any find column of the entity that contains the text string, instead of begins with.
How does using the wildcard reduce performance?
Because indexes cannot be used.