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Mindbogglingly, this doesn't seem to have been addressed at all when they migrated the Views module into Drupal 8 core, so improving this problem could be a great opportunity to show how Backdrop could become the more-usable alternative to Drupal.\r\n\r\nOne idea that I've had is to use vertical tabs to organize the different aspects of views configurations. It would kinda be like the top-to-bottom configuration workflow from Views 1, but with less scrolling. I'm thinking the tabs for each view display could be something like:\r\n\r\n- Content selection (base tables and relationships)\r\n- Filtering (both regular and contextual)\r\n- Display type (configuration and fields, if applicable)\r\n- Header, footer, and empty text\r\n- Additional settings (permissions, caching, query settings)\r\n\r\nDoes this sort of approach make sense? Perhaps we could create a contrib module for this alternate UI now, and then consider merging it into core for backdrop 2."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/comments/164589867","html_url":"https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/1314#issuecomment-164589867","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/1314","id":164589867,"user":{"login":"wesruv","id":5607236,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5607236?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv","html_url":"https://github.com/wesruv","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/wesruv/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-12-14T23:10:55Z","updated_at":"2015-12-14T23:10:55Z","body":"I've also been thinking about some of the similarities that there could be between Views UI, Layouts Admin and Field UI.\r\n\r\nThey all have some query/data/config admin UI and a distinct presentation admin UI. Might end up that they can't share much, but there might be some really good benefit in thinking of them as a whole and figuring out if we can use similar UI patterns between the three.\r\n\r\nforreal this time &lt/randomthought&gt;"}}