Create and edit views in Power Apps maker portal

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Next, you'll learn to create a new view for a table and edit an existing view.

Create a view

To create a view for a table in the Power Apps maker portal, navigate to the table's list of views and follow these steps:

  1. Select New view.

    Screenshot of the list of views for the Account table. Focus is on the New view option.

  2. Provide a Name and Description for the view, choose whether you'd like AI help generating column suggestions, and then select Create.

    Screenshot of the Create a view form. Focus is on the Name and Description fields and on the Create option.

  3. You're now in the view designer. The next unit explores the different features of this area more in depth. For now, select Save As to proceed.

    Partial screenshot of the view designer. Focus is on the Save option.

  4. To make the view available to all other Power Apps users, select Save and Publish.

    Partial screenshot of the view designer. Focus is on the Publish option.

After you've closed the view designer, the newly created view will be added to the list of available table views.

Screenshot of the list of views for the Account table. Focus is on the newly created view named Sample new view.

Edit a view

To modify a view for a table in Power Apps maker portal, navigate to the table's view list and follow these steps:

  1. Select the name of the view to edit.

    Screenshot of the list of views for the Account table. Focus is on a view named Accounts: Influenced Deals That We Won.

  2. Make any changes to columns, change to Name if you'd like to save a new view, and then select Save As.

    Partial screenshot of the view designer. Focus is on the Save and Save As options.

  3. To make this new available to all other Power Apps users, select Save and Publish.

    Partial screenshot of the view designer, showing the Publish option.

Next steps

Now that you've learned how to create and edit Dataverse table views, you'll learn how to add columns to an existing view, namely the Active Accounts view.