Custom View

**Context**: You are exploring a live domain model and find some interesting information. page

**Problem**: How do you make it easy to find interesting information again?

**Forces**: Navigating to the data you want to reach may entail a sequence of operations, either clicking in views, or evaluating Playground snippets, to reach a new Inspector instance. The sequence of steps may be cumbersome to follow repeatedly.

**Solution**: Turn interesting data into a viewable entity. Extract the navigation steps into a new custom view for the moldable object you start navigating from. Possibly start with a simple forward view to an existing view of the target data, and later refine this into a dedicated view.

**Consequences**: A custom view exposes information about a domain that can otherwise be hard to find. Custom views become an intrinsic part of a software system, thus turning it into an Explainable System.

**Related patterns**: Sometimes repeated navigation code does not lead to a view but rather an action that is performed. In this case, instead of adding a custom view, a Custom Action may be needed.