Allow users to show/hide Angular grid menu entries

[Bill Erickson]

Evergreen 3.7 / Wishlist

Given the number of entries in the actions-for-selected-rows (<eg-grid-toolbar-action/>) Angular grid menus, it would be helpful if staff had the ability to hide (and re-show) selected menu entries.

The show/hide settings can live within the existing grid preferences structure, so no new workstation settings would be required.

The grid configuration menu would get a new action (e.g. Edit Actions Menu) that opens the menu in an editable format where users can select to show/hide individual entries.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

A branch:

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/berick/lp1923640-ang-grid-menu-hide-entries-v1

From commit:

Adds a new Angular Grid configuration menu entry labeled "Manage Actions Menu", which launches a new dialog which allows staff to show/hide individual entries in the grid toolbar actions menu / context menu. The new menu action is disabled when a grid has no toolbar actions.

As with other Grid changes, the user must still click Save Grid Settings to persist the changes.

[Bill Erickson (berick)]

Just noting we deployed this locally to production and staff are very happy with it.

[Erica Rohlfs (erohlfs)]

The new Manage Actions Menu is nice and appears to be working. Much of the admin interface has either edit/delete actions. However, this feature is quite nice in tidying up the Holdings View of a bib record. I have tested this code and consent to signing off on it with my name, Erica Rohlfs and my email address, <email address hidden>.

[Galen Charlton (gmc)]

Pushed to master for inclusion in 3.8. Thanks, Bill and Erica!

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

Testing this in 3.8 and have found that the selections are not sticky. I would expect that selections would remain until deselected.

Using a staff account -

1 - opened Holds Pull List. From Manage Actions Menu, deselected all Item actions. The selections updated in the Actions menu. After refreshing the screen (and in a separate test closing the pull list and reopening it), the selections did not persist.

2 - opened an item record > holdings view. Deselected actions, changing the action options for that record. Performed another search, without closing or refreshing that tab, and the deselected actions reappeared in the menu.

[Michele Morgan (mmorgan)]

Lindsay,

I just tested this in 3.8.0 and it is working for me.

Thanks for providing your steps, I don't see that they include clicking 'Save Grid Settings', which is required to make the selections stick per Comment #1:

"As with other Grid changes, the user must still click Save Grid Settings to persist the changes."

Does that fix the issue?

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

Hi Michele,

D'Oh! Yeah, saving is always good, and solved all the problems. Good thing to note for training at least, that the behavior is *not* like other check/uncheck settings, such check in modifiers and similar toggles.