Most applications have different types of users. Some are normal users, some are power-users and some are administrators for the application. Mostly we provide different sets of views for these user categories and to optimize performance and indexing these users sometimes share the same views. But the information in that view is not always useful all types of users.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://quintessens.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/show-hide-column-in-a-notesview/