I just discussed this idea with the development team, and they reply: As a work-around they could try to select the linked elements in the file and run the postable command 'HideElements', which would effectively be the UI version thereof, and will work on the given view and the given view only. Generally speaking, "hide in view" is a silly command to run via the UI outside of the occasional work-around, and something to be avoid in the API as it introduces BULK changes which can take MONTHS (sadly not a joke - I had a bad experience once) to track down in the UI. The use of a filter would be preferable here, and likely fits well. If they were able to bulk select the elements via the API, then it's likely that a filter would work just as well, and give the benefit of being easily applied to new views without needing an add-in, and quick to disable on any one (or many) views.