--- title: Understand the View YAML file content description: Each metadata repository contains a view.yml file (See Understand the Project Metadata Repository content). 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This file contains **all the view settings** for **Dataflow Modeling** and **relationship Modeling** Views. ### View file details After creating a view, the file should look like this: ``` views:  - id: '4a8e7fad-371b-4c37-b6a2-b888aa244f20'    name: 'Datapipe View 1'    description: 'Default view for data pipe.'    type: 'data-pipe'    default: true    modelObjects:      - id: 'bec44444-a68b-46d2-92f4-0df397235d39'      - id: '1b9a7c18-a331-441c-bb02-fa7e53b3fab1'      - id: 'ad072640-8f00-4df1-9f47-46b811c3de44'     .......  - id: '49c32b06-6568-40a2-9e10-864e43a76775'    name: 'Customer Order View'    description: 'Default view for data model.'    type: 'data-model'    default: true    modelObjects:      - id: 'b42bed10-f102-4598-b08e-7398c6382faf'        x: 183.5        'y': 58        collapsed: true      - id: '031d2740-c077-4ef9-a4f3-2f47d457c96d'        x: 577        'y': 59        collapsed: false     .......... ``` The different nodes contain: | **Node name** | **Node description** | **Node value example** | | --- | --- | --- | | **views** | List of project's views for data pipe (Dataflow Modeling) and data model (Relationship Modeling) | - | | **views \> id** | View's ID (GUID format) | 4a8e7fad-371b-4c37-b6a2-b888aa244f20 | | **views \> name** | View's name | Datapipe View 1 | | **views \> description** | View's description | Default view for data pipe. | | **views \> type** | View's type: can be data-pipe (Dataflow Modeling) or data-model (Relationship Modeling) | data-pipe | | **views \> default** | View's default flag - is set to true for the two default views created during project creation | true | | **views \> modelObjects** | List of Model Objects in the View | - | | **views \> modelObjects \> id** | Model Object internal id (GUID format) | b42bed10-f102-4598-b08e-7398c6382faf | | **views \> modelObjects \> x** | Model Object position on the horizontal axis (the x-axis) - Only for Relationship Modeling View | 183.5 | | **views \> modelObjects \> y** | Model Object position on the vertical axis (the y-axis) - Only for Relationship Modeling View | 58 | | **views \> modelObjects \> collapsed** | Indicate if the Model Object is collapsed (true) or expanded (false) - 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