Parent label inheritance: a variable to have the label of a parent-node repeat in the current node
Imagine you have two children: "John" and "Lynn" for example:
Both under John and Lynn, you make a child-node called "school" and under the node "school" you make another child-node, called "friends". You have now
-> "John < school < friends"
-> "Lynn < school < friends"
Imagine you are organizing a birthday party for John and you want to make a jump to John's schoolfriends, then you drag out a jump from the node "birthday party" and start typing "friends" in the searchbox. The searchbox will now suggest two similar lines:
-> "friends < school"
-> "friends < school"
... and you have no way of telling whether it's John's or Lynn's schoolfriends you are creating the jump to.
In the same way when you're on the node "friends", there's no way to visually tell the context of that node. You can't see if you're currently on John's or Lynn's friends. (I know expanded views, but just imagine you have more child-nodes in between like for example: John > School > college > first year > friends", then even in expanded views, you won't be able to tell if you're under Lynn or John's node)
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The idea here is to be able to repeat the label (of a parent) in a child-node.
For example:
I have two nodes for the children John and Lynn, when I drag out a childnode from John then I would for example type in the label-box "%p1%'s school" (where "%p1% represents the label of the parentnode) and this would give the label "John's school".
When I would change the parentnode label from "John" to "Jonathan", then the child would automatically say "Jonathan's school" (because the label of the child is actually "%p1%'school" and %p1% represents the parentlabel which changed)
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The point is: in business situations I have often had complex changes in our bunisess, like for example the finance department had to change accountancy numbers for legal reasons.
Accountancy numbers are nested deep in each other. Some numbers changed and others didn't, but I recorded all of them, so that if I click an old one, I can see what it changed in.
Now often when I do searches, I get two similar suggestions of hits. Then I have to select one, go all the way to the parent so see if I'm in the new or old system and then all the way back down.
The same goes when I just land on a node, I always have to click way up to see the parent, before I can grasp the context.
Having the choice of repeating the label of Node 1 in the label of Node 2 (and have it dynamically update if the label of Node 1 changes), would in my regard be a powerhouse, cause nomatter how far down, you could always refer to the context that would clarify the meaning of the current node you're on.