1. Create a view with "YQL Query: Flexible" as the type
2. Query Settings:
   • Alternate API URL: this config can be ignored if you are using default YQL engine.
   • API method: for now only JSON method is supported.
   • YQL base table: the base table to query from
   • Custom open tables: if you are using your own open data table, specify it here with the format as follow:USE (table_url) AS (table_alias)
   • YQL base object: The base object YQL will be querying from. If this is left empty, the first object in the result set will be taken as the base object
3. Adding Fields:
   • Field name: the field to be added into the view
4. Adding Filter:
   • Field name: the field to be added into the view
   • Operator: the operator used for comparison between the field's value and the specified value
   • Value: the value of the field
5. Adding Arguments:
   • Field name: the field to be added into the view
6. Adding Sort criteria:
   • Field name: the field to be added into the view

Example:

The following YQL statement can be resulted from the following view:

View settings:

• Query Settings:
  • Alternate API URL: (default)
  • API method: JSON
  • YQL base table: local.search
  • Custom open tables: (blank)
  • YQL base object: Result (or can be left blank)
• Fields:
  • Field Name: Title
  • Field Name: Address
  • Field Name: Rating.AverageRating
• Filter:
  • Field Name: query, Operator: is equal to, Value: sushi
  • Field Name: location, Operator: is equal to, Value: san fransisco, ca

which will yield the following view: