When doing HubSpot implementations for our clients, we like to set up views: views for the business development team to display hot leads, views for management to display contacts/companies with deals, etc.
The issue arises when a particular employee—or group of employees—needs a specific view. This, in and of itself, is not an issue. We make the view for them, show them how to add it, and we're done. The issue is when something in the view needs to be changed: maybe the order of columns, the inclusion of columns, the removal of columns, changes in filtering, etc. Only the single HubSpot user who created that particular view has the ability to save any edits to the view.
Every user who has access to the view can use it and make edits to columns and filters; however, their changes to that view are not saved if they do not own it and actively save those changes.
This means it is the sole responsibility of that single HubSpot user to make those changes, which is needlessly cumbersome. While I know this may be asking a lot, explicitly giving users permission to edit your view—maybe distinguishing between who has access versus who can actually edit the view—would be really nice.
If the owner of the view is unavailable, the only recourse for you would be creating a new view of your own—which is a totally valid solution—but isn't very practical if all you're doing is making slight changes to the view.
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