Can we add a common view to parent and child tables?

[veena_kvkk88]

Hello all!!

Hope you are having a great Monday morning!

So, I have a question about views. I have a parent table, say Task, and it's child tables, Incident, Problem etc. Is there a way for me to create a view for Task, that also applies to all child tables? They basically consist of only the common fields from the parent table.

[Chuck Tomasi · Accepted solution]

Hi Veena,

If there are no views on the child table, it has no choice, but to inherit from the parent - it has nothing else to go on. Once you say "I've got a better way, here's a view specific to the form", then the views from the parent are ignored. Consider the CMDB and it's complex parent-child table structure. It would be insane to try and remember where the view came from, who is doing what, which fields are available, etc. It's already challenging enough to keep the fields straight.

Same concept as choice lists. Once you start making changes, it ignores the parent's settings.

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