Accessing Opportunity Tab Views from outside

[simonjpalmer]

Is it possible to get access to views which the user has set up on their Opportunity tab via the Web services API?  If so, how?

What I really want it either:
a) the filter criteria which form the view so I can form a query myself OR
b) the result set of a view

I'm not particularly familiar with these styles of metadata queries and the object structures that describe them.  Is there a good resource out there for learning?

TIA
Simon

[shillyer]

Hi Simon,

Currently the Metadata API supports ListViews on Custom Objects, not Standard. Here is a link to the doc:

http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_meta/Content/meta_listview.htm

Best,

Sati