--- url: https://docs.notice.cx/guides/choose-your-view.md description: >- Choose which pages, parts of Home, site tabs and TV layout the Tower shows: I run the business, I build the product or Everything. --- # Choose your view This page shows how to choose the view the Tower is drawn in, what each view changes, and how to change it later. A view sets which pages the sidebar lists, which parts of Home are shown and in what order, which tabs a site's page shows, the TV layout used while no layout is saved, and a few words on Home. It changes nothing that NoticeOS collects or measures, and nothing another person sees. Every page stays in the product in every view. ## The three views The Tower shows each view with one line under it: | View | The line under it | |---|---| | **I run the business** | Is my site healthy and easy to find? In plain words. | | **I build the product** | Where does the money come from, and where do people drop off? | | **Everything** | Every page and every figure. | **Everything** lists every page in the sidebar and every tab on a site's page. It is the view an installation uses until someone chooses one. **Site health**, **The agents · this week**, **Where visitors come from · 4 weeks** and **Worth a look** are parts of Home only in the other two views. ## What each view changes ### The sidebar | View | Sidebar pages | |---|---| | **I run the business** | **Home**, **Sites**, **Tasks**, **Money**, **Settings** | | **I build the product** | **Home**, **Sites**, **Alerts**, **Tasks**, **Money**, **System health**, **Integrations**, **Settings** | | **Everything** | **Home**, **Workflows**, **Sites**, **Alerts**, **Tasks**, **Agents**, **Money**, **System health**, **Integrations**, **Settings** | **Search…** and **TV dashboard** are at the bottom of the sidebar in every view. ### Home The one-sentence summary at the top of Home is shown in every view. Under it, each view shows these parts, in this order: | View | Parts of Home, in order | |---|---| | **I run the business** | **Site health**, **Money**, **The agents · this week**, **Decide** | | **I build the product** | **Money**, **Where visitors come from · 4 weeks**, **Worth a look**, **Problems**, **Decide**, **Sites** | | **Everything** | **Money**, **Revenue, yesterday** and **Visitors, yesterday**, **Data sources**, **Problems**, **Decide**, the agents' line, **Sites**, **The last 24 hours** | [Home](/tower/home#what-you-see) describes each part. ### A site's tabs | View | Tabs on a site's page | |---|---| | **I run the business** | **Overview**, **Money**, **Search**, **Health**, **Tasks**, **Settings** | | **I build the product** | **Overview**, **Growth**, **Money**, **Search**, **Codebase**, **Health**, **Tasks**, **Data sources**, **Settings** | | **Everything** | every tab: **Overview**, **Growth**, **Money**, **Search**, **Codebase**, **Health**, **Alerts**, **Tasks**, **Activity**, **Data sources** and **Settings** | A link to a tab the view leaves out still opens it, with that tab added at the end of the row. ### The TV While no TV layout is saved, the TV shows the preset of the workspace default view: | Workspace default | What the TV shows | |---|---| | **I run the business** | the strip, then **Site health** over **Revenue this month** on the left, beside **Needs attention** over **The agents · this week** on the right | | **I build the product** | the strip, then **Revenue this month** over **Visitors by channel** on the left, beside **Sites** over **Work this week** on the right | | **Everything** | the default layout | A saved layout always replaces the preset. To start a layout from a preset, see [Start from a view's preset](/guides/arrange-the-wall#start-from-a-view-s-preset). ### The words In **I run the business**, Home's summary starts with the sites' health, such as **1 of 5 sites are fine.**, and the month's money is marked **so far** instead of **est.** The other views start the summary with the month's money. ## Choose on the first run Until the first site has its first number, Home shows the first-run steps. Above them, until you have chosen a view of your own, a box shows **Which describes you?** ![The first-run box on Home in a new installation with no site yet: Which describes you? with I run the business, I build the product and Everything, each with its line, above Step 1 Add your first site, Step 2 Connect a source and Step 3 See your first number.](../images/tower-first-run-view.webp) 1. Under **Which describes you?**, press a view. It is saved at once and the sidebar changes. 2. **What matters most?** replaces the question in the same box, with five picks. Press any number of them: | Pick | The line under it | Part of Home it moves to the top | |---|---|---| | **Money** | this month, and where it comes from | **Money** | | **Visitors** | how many, and how they found you | **Sites** | | **Site health** | up, fast, error-free, well built | **Site health** | | **The agents' work** | what they built, and whether it worked | **The agents · this week** | | **Costs** | what running it all costs | **Money** | 3. Press **Continue** to save the picks in the order you pressed them, or **Skip** to save none. Choosing **Everything** closes the box without the second question. A pick whose part the view does not show changes nothing: **Visitors** moves **Sites**, which **I run the business** does not show. The site steps work before you answer: you can add a site first, and until you answer, the pages use the workspace default view. On a new installation, the first answer also becomes the workspace default when none is saved yet and settings can be saved. ## Change it later **In Settings.** Open **Settings** > **General**. **Your view** is the first panel. ![The General tab of Settings in the synthetic demo: Your view with I run the business, I build the product and Everything, Everything chosen; At the top of Home with Nothing picked and Change; and Workspace default · new people and the TV start from, set to Everything, with a lock.](../images/tower-settings-your-view.webp) 1. Press a view. It is saved at once, with **Saved · Undo** beside the choices. 2. To change your picks, select **Change** beside **At the top of Home**, press the picks to add or remove, then **Done**. **In Search.** Press **⌘K** or select **Search…** in the sidebar. Under **Views**, a **Switch to · I run the business**, **Switch to · I build the product** or **Switch to · Everything** row is listed for each view other than yours. Select one to switch; your picks are kept. ## Where the choice is kept * A **hosted workspace** keeps each person's view for that person, so it is the same on every device they sign in on. * A **standalone installation** keeps the view in this browser. Another browser, or another person, starts from the workspace default. * The **workspace default**, under **Workspace default · new people and the TV start from** in Settings > General, is the view a person sees before choosing one and the view whose preset the TV shows while no layout is saved. **Change** beside it shows the three views. It is stored in `config/tower.json` at `/view`, and shows a lock when settings cannot be saved. ## Pages a view leaves out A page your view leaves out of the sidebar still opens. Search (**⌘K**) lists every page in every view, and a link to a page or a tab opens it whatever the view. ## Verify * The sidebar lists the pages in the view's row of [the sidebar table](#the-sidebar). * Home shows the view's parts in the view's order, with your picks first. * **Settings** > **General** > **Your view** shows the view you chose as selected. ## If it didn't work * The first-run box is not on Home: a view is already chosen in this browser or for your account, or the first site already has its first number. Change the view in Settings. * The TV did not change: a saved TV layout replaces the preset. Start the layout from the preset at `/wall/edit`. * A pick did not move a part: the view does not show that part. ## Next steps * [Home](/tower/home#your-view) * [Settings](/tower/settings#general) * [Arrange the Wall](/guides/arrange-the-wall)