SharePoint Designer 2013 is the tool of choice for the development of SharePoint Applications.  ​Using SharePoint Designer, you can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Moreover, with SharePoint Designer 2013, you will see many changes that encompass a variety of new features, as well as a new user interface. In this article, I will show you how to create custom views from SharePoint Designer 2013.

Challenge:

With lists created in SharePoint 2013, you can only use default views without any customization. Modifying the view through SharePoint Designer 2013, you can make a variety of changes, including but not limited to: text color; add a column; and embed an item limit. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to create/modify views through SharePoint Designer 2013. The advantages of this is that you need only perform some simple configurations and you don’t need any complex command lines.

Solution:

Open SharePoint Designer 2013 and select the Open Site menu:

Type the site name into the Open Site dialog box, and click the Open button.

Go to the Lists and Libraries tab.

Select the list you want to modify:

Go to the Views section; click the New button to create a view for the list:

• In Name textbox, type the view name:
  
• Select the Make this the default view checkbox (if desired).
• Click the OK button.

Go to the new view that you just created; you can filter data clicking on the Filter icon and select a column with filter conditions:

Sort/Group data selecting the column name and Sort Properties/Group properties:

Limit items expanding the Paging drop-down list:

You can also add or remove columns directly with the Display Fields dialog box:

Click the Save button.

Go to your site to check out the results.