# Issues with defining smart views

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/issues-with-defining-smart-views/2373>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [April 26, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/issues-with-defining-smart-views/2373 "2021-04-26T11:33:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mitchell\_Lloyd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/mitchell_lloyd/32/1902_2.png) [@Mitchell\_Lloyd](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Mitchell_Lloyd)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/issues-with-defining-smart-views/2373/1 "2021-04-26T11:33:37Z")

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Hey there folks,  
I’m currently trying to build a Smart View for a collection on Forest. I’m finding the UI for creating the component and little buggy at the moment - is there a way of creating a Smart View in my local repo so I can create all my code in my code editor ?  
Thankyou 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sliman\_Medini](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/sliman_medini/32/19_2.png) [@Sliman\_Medini](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Sliman_Medini)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/issues-with-defining-smart-views/2373/2 "2021-04-26T12:26:58Z")

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Hi @Mitchell_Lloyd,

Thank you for your feedback,  
I’m sad to see you didn’t find yet a nice way to develop your smart view.  
We are working on it to turn it better and better.

Today we do not have support to write a smart view outside the UI.  
I am creating a product board ticket in order to consider the suggestion you made to support it.

Regards,  
Slim