A naming scheme with a label, trade aliases and a disambiguating blurb for each opening kind. Entry Door (aka walk door, man door, service door, personnel door) - 'People - a standard 3ft door'. Overhead Door (aka garage door, sectional, roll-up) - 'Vehicles and equipment - lifts up on tracks'. Sliding Door (aka slider, barn door, track door). Window (aka glazing).
Also called: walk door vs man door · entry door · overhead door vs garage door · what to call an opening
- 1One label is used everywhere: menus, the BOM, the estimate and the customer portal.
- 2openingKindMatches() searches the label AND the aliases, so typing 'man door' or 'garage door' still finds it.
- 3Auto-labels number per type in spec order and renumber consistently in both the panel and the viewport when one is deleted; a stored custom label never renumbers.
The old names lost people at both ends of the same conversation. Walk door is trade jargon a homeowner has never heard; garage door is the consumer term and is wrong on a barn or a shop, where there is no garage; sliding door reads as a patio slider unless you already know it means a track-hung barn door. Openings are named for what goes through them, which is the one description that survives both the translation between builder and customer and the differences between regions. The trade names still find their opening in search, because renaming a control people already know is only safe if the old word still works.
- Trade jargon on a customer-facing estimate.
- Consumer terms that are wrong on an agricultural building.
- A rename that makes the control unfindable for people who knew the old word.
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