Have you ever wanted to save a filtered set of topics on Freebase and promote it on your domain homepage? Or perhaps you want easy access to it from your homepage. Let’s say you have a list of French cheeses that come from goats or a list of religions that share a belief in reincarnation. While there was (and is) already a facility to link to a filtered view – this required you to store that URL somewhere outside of Freebase. Now you can title and save these views to a domain for easier access by you or others within that domain.
How it works: from any filtered set you’ll see an input to ‘Save view as’ where you can name the view and click ‘Save filter’. If you’re an administrator for the domain that the type belongs to, this view will be saved to that domain homepage. If you aren’t, it will be saved to your default domain instead. In either case you’ll have a handy link to this view now on your homepage when you log in. There are options to rename or delete a view at the top of each view page.
This is only the first version of this feature. There are a number of enhancements that we’re planning to add to it over the next few releases, including:
- ability to edit a saved view – we’re planning to add the ability to modify the filter criteria on a saved view; for now the existing criteria don’t appear and should probably be noted in the title of the view
- save views to other domains – soon there will be an option to save a view created in one domain into another domain
- other visualizations – there are plans to add additional visualizations to the filter page such as gallery views, maps and time lines (for starters). All these views will be able to be saved.
- replace ‘find it’ homepage queries – saved views should ultimately be able to present data from any query, even those that are too complicated to construct with the standard filter interface. When the filter view supports tree visualizations and editing MQL filter criteria inline, the views currently typed with ‘freebase query‘ will be replaced with these saved views.
