ability to select objects and materials in the outliner's blender file mode.

I need to change the material, or the smoothing angle etc of an object that is in a container that's excluded from view layer. Obviously I cant expand the collection to select the the object there, so there's currently now way of doing it.

The reason I need to do this is because I have a collection instance, and need to tweak some of the materials and smoothing values of a few of the objects which are in the excluded container the instance is depicting.

I could un-hide the collection temporarily, but there's a long delay between re-enabling and it appearing, which is quite infuriating after several requirements to do so.

One solution is to make it possible to select objects and materials etc in the outliners blender file mode. Another not so versatile solution is to not hide the contents of the containers when exclude from view mode is checked.