hi! i’d love the ability to create “child” views which inherit settings from a “parent” view.
tl;dr
the problem
as it is, when you create a view, it copies over all of the table’s existing settings. but this only happens at the time of creation. if you change anything on the table, it will not propagate any of those changes to the rest of the views.
for example, let’s say i had a table of Tasks, sorted alphabetically, and split into four identical views that filter by status: Active, Inactive, Completed, and Cancelled.
now, if i decided that i wanted to sort all tasks by date instead of alphabetically, i’d have to edit the Sort settings of all four of those views, one by one.
the solution
but what if i could set Active to be the parent of Inactive, Completed, and Cancelled views? then i’d only have to edit Active, and any changes i make to Active would cascade down to its three children. if i set Active to sort by date, the other three would also sort by date.
same with filters, grouping, showing / hiding columns, even column widths.
exceptions
naturally, any changes you make to a child view will override anything inherited from a parent view. and you can selectively disable inherited characteristics, like filters.
but anything untouched will get inherited or take priority. so if i have Active sorted by date, and Cancelled sorted alphabetically, then Cancelled will sort alphabetically first and then by date second.
it’s possible!
this functinoality already exists: in Conditional Formatting!
i just want this same functionality for every other setting, like Sorting, Grouping, Columns, etc.