EntityView properties

Version: 10.3

The following table describes the properties of an EntityView, as defined in the EntityView model:

Property	Description
`Name`	Logical name of the view (string).
`DisplayName`	Localized name of the view (string).
`EntityId`	Most views are centered on a particular underlying CommerceEntity. This `EntityId` represents the ID of that Commerce Entity (string).
`EntityVersion`	The version of the entity that the view corresponds to.
`Action`	Represents an action to be performed. In some cases, EntityViews are retrieved, modified, and then submitted back as an action. This provides a task-based API for the Business User tooling (string).
`ItemId`	In some cases, an EntityView represents a single row among many in a list view. In the case where another level of ID is needed to further target a particular row, `ItemId` is used for this (string).
`Properties`	A list of ViewProperty objects. This represents individual properties that will display in the view. The Business Tool has generic functionality to create a display based on the properties of the View (list<ViewProperty>).
`ChildViews`	Views are progressively built up as a main view and a set of child views, allowing for more complex displays.
`SelectedChildView`	The child view to act upon.
`DisplayRank`	Allows you to influence the order of child views in a composite view. Lower display ranks result in higher display position in the composite view. All `EntityViews` default to a rank of 500.
`UiHint`	A `UiHint` is intended to be a design-agnostic hint to the front-end on how to display the view. Used to render the view in a specific way. The view can be displayed as a flat list of properties, or it can designate that underlying child views represent a list to be displayed using a listing metaphor.
`Icon`	Allows an icon to be associated with a view.

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