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Originally Posted by BetterRed

My starting point was to set the current view to the one with the Sort Order closest to what I wanted. I then adjusted a couple of columns via the list headers, then did the 'Create new View'. When I went into configure I expected to see the Sort Order already set, my intent was to reverse the order on a date column. I ended up having to grab a screenshot of my starting View, and enter it from scratch.

I was rather hoping the Sort Order on a 'Create new View' would clone the current configured View Sort Order. Any chance of doing that, or providing a "Copy current configured sort order" check box on the new name dialogue? For me at least, the Sort Order list has always been 'harder' to get right than the Columns in View list.

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

Of the four potential changes the only one I would use is the "Create a new View based on current view', that would mainly be to nominate which columns were selected, their positions, and widths. Once a new view was created I would look at the Sorting via VM Configuration.

And in my head:
View == View Manager 'View'. view == current display.

If you want to copy an existing View, go into VM config, select the View, click the Add button and it will copy all the View settings.

It might be worth the effort to update/create with sort settings from the current column sorts, but taking columns from current display and sort from last used View (ignoring changes since then) is, IMHO, a Bad Idea.