I used Find to search for items containing a specific word in my database. I clicked the button to display the found items in the Search grid. One of the items displayed in my Search grid was TLI containing the word. A subitem of this TLI, also containing the search word, was also displayed. 19 other children of the TLI were not displayed. To see the other 19 children of the TLI (those that did not contain the search term), I discovered that I needed to turn on Full Hierarchy. Then I could see the other 19 children.
It occurred to me that it might be helpful to have visual indicators in the grid, at the level of each indivudal item, to indicate the presence of undisplayed context parents, siblings, and children. Perhaps something like a little P S C in the margin. Click on the appropriate letter to toggle what you want to show for that item (parent, siblings, children). Of course a child can have multiple parents, I guess when you clicked on the P you could select which parent you wanted to show. Seems like this would be pretty intuitive.
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