smartlist view suggestion

[Anonymous]

I do a lot of custom reporting against our DB, and one of the things I find frustrating is creating and managing custom views.
Couple of quick suggestions:
1. Add a "save as" feature to custom views, so if I have one really great view and need to tweak it to create a similar related view (e.g. leads vs. "contacts"), I can do that without having to remember what fields I've included in the view.
2. Add in the ability to reorder fields/columns in the view create/edit menu so I don't have to continually sweep across my views and drag and drop columns to reorder - that's a huge pain.

I would think these would be fairly easy - the sort of features that seem to be common in DB tools these days.

Food for thought.

Many thanks
Steve

[Anonymous]

1) You can effectively accomplish the "save as" capability by being in the View you want to use as the basis for a new view and then choosing Create View.  The new view will have all of the fields as the previous view.

2) Please vote for the Ability to order the visible columns in a view in the editor Idea created in October 2012 that has a "We Like It!" status.