# Naming for tree views, \_view\_list or \_view\_tree
**URL:** https://discuss.tryton.org/t/naming-for-tree-views-view-list-or-view-tree/1408
**Category:** Developer
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/naming-for-tree-views-view-list-or-view-tree/1408 "2019-05-22T15:46:25Z")
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### Author:  [@fgui](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/fgui)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/naming-for-tree-views-view-list-or-view-tree/1408/1 "2019-05-22T15:46:26Z")
I’m looking at the code that describes tree views in xml and I see that sometimes tree views are name whatever\_view\_tree and others times whatever\_view\_list.
Does the different naming imply different concepts? Is there a convention on when to use one naming suffix or the other?
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### Author:  [@ced](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/ced)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/naming-for-tree-views-view-list-or-view-tree/1408/2 "2019-05-22T16:26:19Z")
Normally we try to use `_tree` suffix when it is used for tree which children and `_list` when it is used as flat list. But this convention came later and it is not well respected (and maybe we should just always use `_tree`).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.tryton.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.tryton.org/t/naming-for-tree-views-view-list-or-view-tree/1408/3 "2019-06-21T16:26:29Z")
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