---
title: "SavedView"
description: "a view over the record, a predicate or a recipe, kept current on a beat, served as a table"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/savedview
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# SavedView

a view over the record, a predicate or a recipe, kept current on a beat, served as a table

[figure: SavedView is a definition at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | follows |
| key | its name and version |
| store | postgres |
| family | rules_engine |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `source` | `one of a predicate \| a recipe` | yes |  |
| `predicate` | `hash` | no |  |
| `recipe` | `text` | no | a model's, a clustering's or a summary's |
| `columns` | [Column](/concepts/column) | yes |  |
| `beat` | [Beat](/concepts/beat) | yes |  |
| `built_ahead` | `bool` | yes |  |
| `population` | [PopulationStatement](/concepts/populationstatement) | no |  |
| `rights` | [Rights](/concepts/rights) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns SavedView directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.