UI: Add some sort of "current context" to netbox

[mc]

NetBox version

4.2.9

Feature type

Other

Proposed functionality

I propose to add some sort of "current context" to netbox, in the form of

a) a dropdown in the top line of netbox, maybe directly left to the dark/bright mode switcher, that enables the user to select (and deselect, including a DESELECT ALL shortcut) a

• tenant,
• VRF,
• ... something else that makes sense?

b) that selection will affect:

I) searches, by automatically limiting searches to those set contexts; OR prioritising hits that match the context.
II) lists of children (for example the IP-Addresses tab in a Prefix), by subtly "greying out" items that do not belong to this context
III) creation of new items, by automatically defaulting the fields that are actively set in the context to the values set in the context.

Use case

I often find myself overwhelmed with irrelevant information from tenants or VRFs that I am not interested in, I can apply filters, but when looking for multiple things in succession it needs to be set every time, which is annoying.

Also when creating multiple items it is annoying to have to manually set it over and over again, instead of being automatically filled.

in lists, it aids in finding related and remotely-related objects.

Database changes

none needed, I guess, this seems to be purely an UI thing, with some JS magic to auto-apply the set values to a number of fields in forms.

External dependencies

none either, I guess.

[arthanson]

This would be better as a discussion as the exact proposed solution would need to be discussed and evaluated by the community. Switching this over to discussion