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

[Tina Ji]

Another may be Function Bar. The Actions dropdow list is on this bar.  
A different name may help distinguish it from the Actions list.

My 2 cents.

Quoting Terran McCanna <tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>:

> 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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>>
>>
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