Global: View area displays even when parent view has no results

I've added a patch that resolve the issue for us

We had to account for when the views area was added to the "No results behavior" section of the view. Adjusted the patch for this

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@prabha1997, fixes should always start against the main 11.x branch. Thanks!

Weʻre actually better off simply creating a new MR, so doing that now.

xjm → closed merge request !8300

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OK, now reviewing the issue. Are we sure this isnʻt works as designed? Iʻve actually deliberately used this behavior sometimes, of having a global area to display when there are no results. I think this change might cause what appears to be a regression for some sites.

Tagging for subsystem maintainer review to decide if we actually want this change.

The next step here is thorough manual testing of all the scenarios -- with and without view results, with and without the "display even if view has no results" checked. (Sounds like at least four total testing scenarios, which we should do before and after the patch.) We'll also need automated test coverage, probably a data provider to do exactly those scenarios above.

Thanks everyone!