How can one identify a private list view?

Question

After placing a list on a webpart page and modifying the view, I found that my user could not see all of the columns that were visible to me. I can only guess that I was looking at a private view. It turned out that his visible columns on the page were exactly those of the list's default view.

Is there a way to look at a page and know whether what I see is a private or public list view?

I worked around this by giving the user a link directly to the named view he needs instead of a page with a view inserted. However, I'd still like to know how I can tell whether I'm looking at what my user sees on a page.

Answer 1

here's a programmatic approach:

$fooWeb = Get-SPWeb -Identity $fooURL
$fooView = $fooWeb.GetViewFromUrl($fooViewURL) 
$fooView.PersonalView # boolean property for personalized (private) view..

checking the private view again with SPList.DefaultView Property will reconfirm that it is a private view (default views can't be private).

Another approach: Check this code segment for Accessing Personal View in Sharepoint List