Enhancement: use a Bootstrap input group for the bulk manager dropdown and "Go" button

[robbieaverill]

E.g.: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/input-group/#custom-select

This could replace the custom styles currently in use here:

Currently however this is not particularly easy to implement using the SS 4.0 framework in the CMS. If you're keen you'd probably need to use a CompositeField of some sort and render it to a custom template. See an example of that here: https://github.com/dnadesign/silverstripe-elemental/blob/be7c88b926bbd3adf2808811bc8d6264a0f3efb6/templates/DNADesign/Elemental/Forms/TextCheckboxGroupField.ss (not ideal, but an example)

[colymba]

@robbieaverill the old (and pretty bad) looking buttons were bothering me too actually, and I had made some updates which I just pushed into 3.0. Not using bootstrap and makes use of the SS4 component better...

Do you know if we would gain anything specific in terms of UI/UX with Bootstrap?

Looks like this:

[robbieaverill]

Ah nice! Benefits of using bootstrap is consistency with the SS4 core user interface mostly. You can use the web pack config module to expose the SS4 core bootstrap variables for colours and spacing etc, and would allow UIs to follow consistent patterns. There’s a SilverStripe UX repository with Sketch files if you’re interested too :-)