Creating custom views
We have now come full circle with our discussion of Project views. We can apply everything that we have learned so far in this chapter to create new views that are perfectly suited for our own projects. Let's explore two techniques to create custom designed views. Remember that views are constructed from specific instances of tables, filters, groups, and display formats. So, a new view can be designed from the bottom up, designing each of the components that make up your new view. Refer to the following diagram:
Figure 14.31 – A pyramid design showing the construction of a new view
It is best to build a view by starting from the bottom of the component pyramid and moving up, shaping our data as we reach the completion of our view.
In the next sections, we will create a new view from the solution achieved by our previous exercise.
Creating a new view from a current view
With this simple technique, you first modify...
