Allow soft partition groups

[computermacgyver]

• It would sometimes be useful to have non-exclusive groups; if you have multiple boolean attributes for nodes, each of these could become a group. That would allow nodes to be in multiple groups, which I don't think is currently possible.

[jthrilly]

I agree that this would be useful. The problem is that it is not easily visually communicated. I have effectively implemented this for the KE network map for "resource highlighting" within the network, which is achieved with a series of boolean variables which share a common prefix. I then use toggles to highlight the nodes with that attribute by changing their colour. Unless we can think of a more graceful visual means of displaying multiple groups, I would suggest we might prioritise other features.

[computermacgyver]

Agreed that this is lower priority than the others. Good point "resource
highlighting", however. We might bring this is as a dropdown so that it
can scale to any number of categories.

I agree that this would be useful. The problem is that it is not easily
visually communicated. I have effectively implemented this for the KE
network map for "resource highlighting" within the network, which is
achieved with a series of boolean variables which share a common prefix.
I then use toggles to highlight the nodes with that attribute by
changing their colour. Unless we can think of a more graceful visual
means of displaying multiple groups, I would suggest we might prioritise
other features.

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