This article is about the Proxi admin app at app.proxi.co.
One map can be shared many different ways. Want a link that shows only your restaurants? A version zoomed in on one neighborhood? A page on your website that shows just the trick-or-treat stops? You don't have to remake the map, duplicate it, or build a separate map for each category — you save a View. A View is a link to your one existing map that opens it already positioned and filtered the way you chose. Your places stay in one map, and every View stays up to date as you edit them.
What a View Remembers
When you save a View, it captures how the map looks at that moment:
The position — where the map is centered and how far it's zoomed in.
The filters — whichever categories or filter choices are applied, plus anything typed in the search box.
The map itself never changes. A View is just a way of opening it — visitors who use your regular map link see everything, exactly as before.
Save a View
Open your map in the editor.
Set up the live preview on the right the way you want visitors to first see it: pan and zoom to the right spot, and use the map's filters and search to narrow the pins.
In the Access group of the settings rail, open Views and click Save Current View.
Give it a name — "Restaurants Only," "Downtown Core" — so you can tell your Views apart.
Save as many Views as you like. Deleting a View only removes that link — never any places.
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 explore the rest."
Share a View
Click Copy Link on the View. You'll get a link like …/m/…?view=restaurants_only_h4k2m9 — your map's normal address plus a view name at the end. Send it, post it, print it as its own QR code, 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 Particular View
The regular embed shows the whole map. 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/m.js" defer></script>
<proxi-map data-id="…" data-view="restaurants_only_h4k2m9"></proxi-map>
You can put different Views of the same map on different pages of your site — a Dining page, a Shopping page, a Parking page — all powered by one map you edit in one place. Get the base embed code from the Share panel (see Sharing and Embedding Your Map).
Good to Know
Views are for sharing, not security — anyone who removes the view name from the link sees the full map. To truly limit what someone can see, keep those places on a different map or collection.
If you delete a View, its old links simply open the regular map.
A View saves position and filters — not colors, categories, or which places exist. If you need a genuinely different map (different places, different branding), that's when to duplicate: see Duplicating and Deleting Maps.