Jimbo 88
... I have much better luck opening up PRV and staff view at the same time.  I edit in PRV and look at the results in Staff View. 

Thank you for sharing this tip; I'll try it.

57Gregy
"Being able to see big chunks of the score at once"
 
On your second monitor with the Staff view, open the Print Preview. That will allow you to see the entire score, or any selected tracks and be able to change pages.
Of course, you won't be able to edit the print preview, but anything you do in the Staff view or PRV, or record into a track will be reflected in the PP.
Or, I'm misunderstanding what you mean, a problem I have that has been pointed out by many women.

A much better solution is to use tabs and have as many notation editor views as you need.  For example, the piece I'm currently working on has 7 tabs:  winds, brass, percussion, synths, orchestral strings. chamber strings and mixed (mixed is whatever instruments I need to see at that moment). 
 
To quickly move from screen to screen, just select the tab you need and all the instruments for that group are there, ready for editing and/or input.  The instruments within the tab are memorized, so are the staff sizes, which might be different for each tabbed view.
 
Jerry
www.jerrygerber.com
 
 

I'm glad so many people offer work arounds for Staff View.  I am also a musician/composer that relies on actual musical notation for writing... of course, I don't do this in Sonar until I am in post production because it is very difficult to see the music correctly and to edit actual notes in a phrase to make sense.  We all know you can right click the notes and modify them or use the pencil tool with various weird settings to put new events into the staff.  I'm not going to get suckered into a discussion here.
 
I would just ask Sonar, as I do know some info feeds up the pipeline from the forum... COULD YOU AT LEAST DUPLICATE THE TOOL SELECTION IN THE STAFF VIEW?  COULD YOU SHOW THE CURRENT NOTE VALUE OF THE PENCIL TOOL IN THIS WINDOW?  I know all the work arounds so I don't need a lesson.  It just seems that if this information is already available, this could help us save a little time in our workflow.

Just sending a note that we hear you guys, and we're trying to figure out a way to make this better.

Very Cool...thank you Alex.

Snap stopped working for me and it is killing me.

+1 everything jsg said about copy/past and cut/paste.

But at least they hear you.

Don't worry, it's more than just hearing. Keep your fingers crossed.