This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co. Directories are in beta.
One directory can be shared many different ways. Want a link that shows only your restaurants? A page for your website that lists just this year's festival vendors? A version sorted for holiday shopping? You don't have to remake the directory, duplicate it, or build a separate directory for each category — you save a View. A View is a link to your one existing directory that opens it already filtered and laid out a particular way. Your listings stay in one place, and every View stays up to date as you edit them.
What a View Remembers
When you save a View, it captures how the directory looks at that moment:
The filters — whichever categories or filter choices are applied, plus anything typed in the search box.
The layout — the current Layout choice (Grid, List, Compact, or Editorial), cards per row, and how photos are displayed.
The directory itself never changes. A View is just a way of opening it — visitors who use your regular directory link see everything, exactly as before.
Save a View
Open your directory in the editor.
Set up the live preview on the right the way you want visitors to see it: use the preview's filter chips and search box to narrow the list. If you want this View to use a different layout, set that too (the Layout choice lives in the Card Style section).
In the Access group of the settings rail, open Views and click Save Current View.
Give it a name — "Restaurants Only," "Festival Vendors" — so you can tell your Views apart.
Save as many Views as you like. Deleting a View only removes that link — never any listings.
Lock a Filter, or Leave It Open
Each filter your View captures shows as a small chip on the View. Tap a chip to toggle it:
Locked — visitors opening this View can't change or clear that filter, and its control is hidden. They see just the slice you chose. New Views lock everything they capture, since the usual goal is "show only these."
Unlocked — the filter starts pre-selected, but visitors can change it. Good for "start on restaurants, but let people browse everything."
Share a View
Click Copy Link on the View. You'll get a link like …/d/…?view=restaurants_only_h4k2m9 — your directory's normal address plus a view name at the end. Send it, post it, or put it behind a button on your website.
The readable part of the link is editable: each View has a link name box (next to ?view=) where you can type your own, like downtown_bars. The short code at the end is added automatically so every View's link stays unique — and it means renaming a View or changing its link name never breaks links you've already shared.
Embed a View on Your Website
The regular embed shows the whole directory. To embed a specific View instead, add a data-view attribute to your embed code, using the part of the View's link after ?view=:
<script src="…/embed/d/<your-directory-id>.js" defer></script>
<proxi-directory data-id="<your-directory-id>" data-view="restaurants_only_h4k2m9"></proxi-directory>
You can put different Views of the same directory on different pages of your site — a Restaurants page, a Shopping page, an Events page — all powered by one directory you edit in one place. Get the base embed code from the Share panel (see Publishing, Sharing, and Embedding Your Directory).
Good to Know
Views are for sharing, not security — anyone who removes the view name from the link sees the full directory. To keep some listings out of the directory entirely, keep them out of its collection.
Your directory needs to be published for View links to work, same as the regular link.
If you delete a View, its old links simply open the regular directory.
Setting up filters for the first time? See Filters and Search for Visitors. For layout options, see Designing Your Directory: Layout, Cards & Branding.