Creating fast views

Fast views are hidden views that can be quickly opened and closed. They work like other views except they do not take up space in your Workbench window.

To create a fast view:

  1. Click the title bar of the view that you want. Hold the mouse button down.
  2. Drag the view to the shortcut bar at the far left of the window and release the mouse button.

The icon for the view that you dragged now appears on the shortcut bar. You can look at the view by clicking its icon on the shortcut bar. As soon as you click somewhere else outside the view, it is hidden again.

To restore the view to its original location (to delete the fast view), click on the Fast View icon Fast view icon in the title bar of the view.

You can also create and restore fast views by selecting Fast View from the context menu that opens when you click the icon at the left side of the view's title bar.

Related concepts.
Views
Fast views
Perspectives

Related tasks
Working with fast views
Opening views
Moving and docking views
Maximizing a view or editor
Saving a user-defined perspective
Resetting perspectives

 
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