In plain English
It names the starting arrangement shown first. For an application, window, or page, it is the view that appears on its own unless another view was chosen instead.
In context
Here, "default view" labels the view in the menu that opens automatically unless a different view has been chosen.
- Situation
- Using dashboards, tables, filters, sorting, views, and bulk controls
- What it communicates
- labels the automatically opening view in the view menu
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say whether the default view can be changed, only which view opens automatically when no different one has been chosen.
Examples
“On the shared computer, the page always opened in the default view because nobody had chosen another one.”
“From the menu, select Default View to go back to the view that opens on its own.”