For Professional encyclopedias, all users can create views.

For Enterprise encyclopedias, the default setting is to allow users to create views.

The System Architect Administrator, through System Architect Catalog Manager, can control the ability of users to create or see views. By assigning a view to a role, you make the view visible to users assigned that role.

When you create a view, it is stored as a definition in the encyclopedia. Everyone can see this view definition if they look in the classic Explorer Browser or Explorer All tab.

When you create a pane, and put views on it, or add or rearranges views on an existing pane, those choices can only be seen by you, and are stored in their profile (in the sa_usrviews.xml file). To share those Pane layout choices, distribute the sa_usrviews.xml file to all users to store in their profiles.

When you create a dynamic view, you link the view to one or more Dynamic View Report definitions. Because these are definitions, they are available to anyone else who opens the encyclopedia. Existence of a Dynamic View Report does not, by itself, render a view for a user.

For all practical purposes, views cannot be shared across encyclopedias, even for the same user. Static views and dynamic views are definitions so you can theoretically move them from encyclopedia to encyclopedia. However, moving static views between encyclopedias does not work because the objects in the static view will have different ddid’s in different encyclopedias, or the objects may not exist at all. You may move a dynamic view between encyclopedias, but when you run that dynamic view, it returns different results based on the information in the encyclopedia that it is in.