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On the Edit View dialog, select Advanced.
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Select the Layout tab of the Advanced View Properties dialog.
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For a new layout, type a name. Select Default if you want this layout to be the default table layout for the item type, which you specify on the Edit View dialog.
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Select Save if you want to save the layout in order to apply it to another Engineering Data Editor; select Delete if you want to delete the layout.
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To further define a layout, populate the Definition box with display and sort properties.
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Select Add to add a blank line to the Display Property list, and then specify the property and caption in the Edit group at the bottom of the dialog.
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To add and define more display properties, repeat step 5. To change the display order of the columns in the Engineering Data Editor, select a row in the Display Property box and select Up or Down.
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In the Sort Property list, select Add to add an entry. Then select the property, order, and type in the Edit group at the bottom of the dialog.
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To add and define more sort properties, repeat step 7. To change the sort order of the properties in the Engineering Data Editor, select a row in the Sort Property box and select Up or Down.
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Select OK.
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The Add, Insert, Delete, Up, and Down buttons apply to the active list view, which can be either Display Property or Sort Property.
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If you edited an existing layout and did not save the layout name, on selecting OK, you are prompted whether to save the changes to the database: selecting Yes is the same as selecting the Save command; selecting No changes the layout for the current item in the current session only.
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If you are using a Workshare environment and you are at a satellite site, you should not store custom layouts for the Engineering Data Editor because when you synchronize reference data, you lose that information.