[FEATURE] Improved Item Opening Method Options

[Lissy93]

Category: Feature

Overview

• Adds support for _top and _parent anchor targets on items
• Adds appConfig.defaultOpeningMethod option to specify default target
• Adds new icons to show items opening method on hover
• Refactors target checking, updates item target docs and schema

Issue Number #289

New Vars

Field	Type	Required	Description
appConfig.defaultOpeningMethod	enum	Optional	The default opening method for items, if no target is specified for a given item. Can be either newtab, sametab, top, parent, modal or workspace. Defaults to newtab
item.target	enum	Optional	The opening method for when the item is clicked, either newtab, sametab, top, parent, modal or workspace.

The list of options for target/ default opening method are:

• sametab - The app will be launched in the current tab
• newtab - The app will be launched in a new tab
• modal - Launch app in a resizable/ movable popup modal on the current page
• workspace - Changes to Workspace view, and launches app
• top - Opens in the top-most browsing context, useful if your accessing Dashy through an iframe

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Code Quality Checklist (Please complete)

• All changes are backwards compatible
• All lint checks and tests are passing
• There are no (new) build warnings or errors
• (If a new config option is added) Attribute is outlined in the schema and documented
• (If a new dependency is added) Package is essential, and has been checked out for security or performance
• Bumps version, if new feature added

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Changed files are located in these folders:

• /
• docs
• src/assets/interface-icons
• src/components
• src/utils

[Lissy93]

Tested and confirmed working with no regressions.

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