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title: How to save and share a view
canonical: "https://cloudmonitor.ai/docs/how-to/how-to-save-and-share-a-view/"
description: "Keep a report arrangement you will want again, and send someone a link that opens on exactly what you are looking at."
---

If you rebuild the same report arrangement every Monday, save it instead. Views work the same way on
every grid in CloudMonitor.

## Save one

1. Arrange the report — grouping, sorting, search, column visibility, whatever you need.
2. **Views** in the toolbar.
3. **Save current as…**, name it (up to 50 characters), press Enter or **Save**.

That's it. The name appears in the menu and the view is yours.

## Use one

Open **Views** and click it. The button then shows its name, so you always know which arrangement
you're looking at.

Two controls appear beside an active view:

- **×** — **Clear view (reset to default)**, going back to the report's default arrangement.
- **Trash** — deletes the saved view.

## Keep it up to date

Change anything while a view is applied and a dot appears on the button, titled **Unsaved changes**.
The menu then offers **Update "…"** to overwrite the saved arrangement with what's on screen.

Changes are not saved automatically. Navigating away without updating leaves the saved view as it
was, which is usually what you want.

**Reset to default** discards everything and returns to how the report ships.

## Share a link

The page address follows what you're looking at, including the active view. Copy it from the browser
and whoever you send it to opens on the same arrangement.

Some screens also have a share control in the header that does this for you.

Two things to know before you send one:

- **They see their own data, not yours.** A link carries the arrangement, not permission. If the
  recipient isn't a member of a cost group in the view, their version will be emptier than yours.
  See [Roles and access](/docs/reference/roles-and-permissions/).
- **Virtual tag filters travel; some others may not.** If the numbers matter, say in the message what
  period you were looking at rather than relying on the link alone.

## Where views live

**Per report and per person.** Your saved views on The Ledger don't appear on the Explorer, and
nobody else sees them.

They follow you between devices, and they're kept if you're offline for a moment — a view you save
during a blip isn't lost.

:::note[There is no central list of saved views]
Views live on the report they belong to. To find one, go to that report and open **Views**. There's
no screen listing every view you've ever saved.
:::

## An empty menu

**No saved views yet.** — nothing saved on this report. Arrange it and use **Save current as…**.

## Worth saving

- The grouping you always start from on The Ledger.
- A cost group scoped to your team, ready for a weekly check.
- A rate-based analysis on the Explorer — those take the longest to rebuild and are the most valuable
  to keep. See [The Explorer](/docs/using-cloudmonitor/reports/explorer/).