A View is a definition; you can see it in under the Definitions node in the Explorer. When you create a new View, you must specify if the View will be a Static View or a Dynamic View. The default is Static. The two types of Views have different icons in the Explorer, as shown in the picture above.

Static views are item-based and can contain other definitions. To populate static views, open at least two Explorers at the same time, and then drag artifacts into the view.

See also Creating a static view.

A dynamic view is report-based. It runs one or more reports that you have specified in the view definition whenever you expand a folder in the view. You can refresh a view by pressing F5, or by right‑clicking, and selecting Refresh.

Turning on Auto-Refresh can have adverse effects on performance.

Dynamic views can also be nested; however, the reports are only displayed in the view where the dynamic view definition was created.

See also Creating a dynamic view.