Selective landscape element grouping facilitating landscape element consolidation or content installation

A method, implemented in a computing system comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one hardware processor, the method comprising:

• receiving identifiers for a plurality of landscape elements, wherein a given landscape element of the plurality of landscape elements comprises, or is associated with, one or more artifacts and has a type, wherein the plurality of landscape elements comprise a first landscape element, a second landscape element, and a third landscape element each being of a first type;
• receiving a first definition of a first group, the first definition indicating that the first landscape element and the second landscape element are members of the first group, wherein the third landscape element is not included in the first definition of the first group;
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• consolidating content of the first landscape element and the second landscape element based at least in part on the first definition, where content of the third landscape element is not consolidated with content of the first landscape element and the second landscape element.

One or more computer-readable storage media comprising:

• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system comprising at least one hardware processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one hardware processor, cause the computing system to receive identifiers for a plurality of landscape elements, wherein a given landscape element of the plurality of landscape elements comprises, or is associated with, one or more artifacts and has a type, the plurality of landscape elements comprising a first landscape element having the first type, a second landscape element having the first type, and a third landscape element having the first type;
• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to receive a definition of a first group, the definition specifying that the first landscape element and the second landscape element are included in the first group, but the definition does not identify the third landscape element as being a member of the first group;
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• computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, cause the computing system to, based at least in part on the definition of the first group, generate a consolidation landscape element for the first group, the consolidation landscape element providing access to data associated with the first landscape element and the second landscape element.