Compose a quick view from other quick views

[keyserj]

Describe your issue

When there are many nodes in a diagram, it can be harder to make sense of. Right now, I can make a few Quick Views to focus on different sections, which is nice, but that forfeits being able to see connections across views (e.g. having to navigate between a high-level view and other views), and sometimes it seems like merely adding some visual distinction between sections would be sufficient to avoid being overwhelmed by seeing all the nodes at once.

Also: seeing all the nodes at once, if sections are visually distinguished, is faster to navigate mechanically (just need to move eyes or pan the diagram) than switching quick views or collapsing/expanding nodes.

Solution you'd like

Add a Sub Views multi-select to allow views to show nodes based on filters in those other sub views.

This is not super useful on its own, but it enables the following which seem great:

• visually distinguishing sections within a diagram Way to distinguish sections in a large diagram #716
• adding a Subview node type which can be easily collapsed/expanded (not sure what UX would look like for collapsing), and when collapsed can show connections to other subviews/nodes

Questions:

• sub view settings besides filters (e.g. layout settings) don't make sense to use/share here - can UX or naming imply this better?
• how to handle nested quick views? don't want to allow e.g. quick view A to have subview B, where B has A as a subview too

Alternatives you've considered

• maybe can be accomplished with a folder-like implementation too? but views should probably be able to be "files" too i.e. have their own filters on top of subview filters

Additional context

• initially discussed in this Discord thread

Technical ideas and questions

No response