# View Settings

The settings button in the View editor's toolbar switches the inspector to
**View settings**. These settings belong to the whole View rather than
to one layout.

## General

- **Name** names the View in the Views list, on admin pages and in the
  editor's tab.
- **Data source** chooses where the rows come from: a post type, a database
  table, a remote URL, a file on the server, a file from the media library, or
  a preset. The fields below it change with the choice; see
  [Data Sources](/docs/view/views/data-sources.md).
- **Post type**, for a post type source, chooses the post type the View reads
  and whose list it replaces. On that list the View shows as its card alone,
  its layouts as tabs, on WordPress's own page.

Changing the data source, the post type or the file clears what depended on
the old columns in every layout: hidden and visible table columns, the
initial sort, custom filters, the Kanban and Feedback taxonomies and Kanban
column settings, the chart cards' columns, and the layouts' Data filters.

### Enable View

**Enable View**, on by default, lets this View replace the post list of its
post type. Turned off, WordPress's standard list, or the next most recent View
of that post type, takes its place. Admin pages and shortcodes still show a
disabled View, and the Views list marks it **Disabled**.

### Public embed

**Public embed**, offered for post type sources only, lets visitors who are
not logged in read this View where a shortcode embeds it. A public embed is
read-only and shows only the View's published posts that have no password.
Filters and sorting on custom fields are left out for those visitors, and the
layout's own Data filters still apply. A layout the View's or its own
conditions hide from a visitor stays unavailable to them. Rows carry no edit
links, and an item's upvotes show the count and the visitor's own vote only.
Everyone who can edit posts sees the embed as before. A public embed loads
only when a visitor scrolls within 400 pixels of it, so a View far down a page
costs nothing until then. Every embed holds its height while it loads, so the
content below it does not move.

## Field mapping and column labels

Sources other than a post type have a **Field mapping** section, which says
which source columns act as the row's ID, title, content and date. Every
source with columns has **Column labels**, which renames columns for display.
A preset may fix either and hide its section.
[Data Sources](/docs/view/views/data-sources.md#field-mapping) explains both.

## Shortcode

**Shortcode** shows the View's embed code with a **Copy** button:

```text
[sleek-view-widget id="123"]
```

Place it in a post, a page or any other place that renders shortcodes. The
View renders inside an isolated frame, so the theme's styles do not reach it,
and its layouts appear as tabs; Default post screen layouts are left out.

An individual embed can choose a fixed theme and omit the surrounding workspace
canvas while keeping its field card, tabs and controls:

```text
[sleek-view-widget id="123" theme="light" presentation="card"]
```

`theme` accepts `light`, `dark` or `system`; when omitted, the host's normal
theme applies. `presentation` accepts `workspace` (the default padded canvas)
or `card`. These options affect this embed only, leaving the saved View and
administration screens unchanged.

The page markup is the same for every visitor, so full-page caching keeps
working. The View itself loads when the page opens, for users who can edit
posts (Contributor and above), and for everyone when **Public embed** is on.
Other visitors see nothing.

## Conditions

**Conditions** limits who sees the View. On the post list, a View whose
conditions do not match leaves WordPress's standard list in place; on admin
pages and in embeds the View is left out. See
[Conditions](/docs/view/views/conditions.md).

## Delete

**Delete View**, in the editor's toolbar, removes the View and every layout in
it after you confirm. Deleting is permanent; remove the View from any admin
page that shows it.

## Where a View shows

| Place                                   | Who sees it                                              | What applies                                                                                             |
| --------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| The post type's list screen in wp-admin | Users who can edit posts and open that screen            | The View unless it is disabled; its conditions, its layouts' conditions                                  |
| An [admin page](/docs/view/admin-pages.md) | Administrators                                           | The View's and its layouts' conditions; no Default post screen tab                                       |
| A shortcode embed                       | Users who can edit posts, or everyone for a public embed | The View's and its layouts' conditions, decided for the visitor on that page; no Default post screen tab |

Data for any of them is read through SleekView's REST API with the same
checks, so a condition never shows a View to someone who could not read it
otherwise.