[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Web Client Bar for Actions and Column Picker

[Terran McCanna]

I agree - Action Row or Action Bar makes sense to me because you're taking
action (regardless of whether there's an actual Action button or not).

Terran McCanna
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <
abneiman at equinoxinitiative.org> wrote:

> In my internal notes, I refer to it as the Action/Paging Bar, but I don't
> love that because I think it leaves out the Configuration part.
>
> Similarly, I don't love Configuration Bar because to my mind that leaves
> out Actions and Paging.
>
> However, I think Action Row (or Action Bar, or Grid Action Bar, or the
> like) actually captures all the things that can go there -- Paging Actions,
> Configuration Actions, and Action-Actions.
>
> $0.02
>
> Andrea
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxinitiative.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Jennifer Pringle
>> <jennifer.pringle at bc.libraries.coop> wrote:
>> > Has anyone come up with a name for the bar in the web client that
>> contains
>> > the actions menu, column picker, and paging buttons?  I skimmed the
>> official
>> > 3.0 docs but I didn't see it referred to as a whole anywhere.
>> >
>> > I'd like to make sure what we call it in our local resources matches
>> what
>> > ends up in the official docs.
>> >
>> > So far I'm leaning towards Configuration Bar.  Anyone have other
>> > suggestions?
>>
>> As far as the code is concerned, there are some internal names in use
>> that may be useful for setting on a name for use by the documentation.
>> The copy tag interface (/eg/staff/admin/local/asset/copy_tag) is what
>> I'm using as an example since the grid there uses all of the UI
>> widgets I'm about to refer to.
>>
>> Going by CSS class names in particular:
>>
>> * The button(s) on the left ("New Record") in this example are "grid
>> menu items".
>> * The set of of widgets that include the paging buttons the Actions
>> menu (if present) and column configuration drop-down is the "column
>> picker"
>> * The items in the Actions drop-down are "grid actions"
>> * The whole row, including grid menu item and the column picker is the
>> "action row".
>>
>> I offer these in case they are helpful; I do /not/ suggest that the
>> documentation need to follow the CSS class names.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
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