44710 - Entries drag/drop into Mailing List lose Display Name

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

***** observed with 2000-07-06 M17 build ****
Steps to reproduce:
- import an Address Book from 4.x
- create a new Mailing List under Personal Address Book;
- open the new List and drag/drop entries from the imported AB;
- when you are dropping them you can see all entries with Display name and email 
addresses;
- close the Mailing list by OK'ing it;
- select it from the left pane and note:
// no Display names on the right pane, only email addresses

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

reassigning to chuang.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

candice could you try this out and see if this is still happening?

Comment 3

[scottputterman]

suresh, are you seeing this?

Comment 4

[Suresh]

Yes, I'm seeing this on today's commercial build on Windows.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 6

[chuang]

We use the display name if there's one or made it up from the first and last 
name for displaying in the list entry.  We don't lose the display name because 
it is not there in the beginning.

Comment 7

[fenella]

QA-assign-to fenella.

Comment 8

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham

Comment 9

[marina]

i retested this with 2001-11-30 windows build and now it doesn't matter whether
the ABook was imported or not it happens every time you D&D cards to  mailing
list, they lose their display name, changing the summary.This bug  should get
more attention, it is a data loss, adding a keyword.

Comment 10

[esther]

*** Bug 92510 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-01-16-03: WinMe
Trunk build 2002-01-16-08: Linux RH 7.1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Have entries in the Personal Address Book (aka PAB)
2. Create a new Address Book (NewAB1)
3. In the new address book select the New List button
4. Drag-n-drop cards from the PAB into the list
5. Close the list

Actual Results: The cards are added to the new address book and the addresses
appear but the Display Name is blank.
Expected Results: The Display Name should also appear in the right pane.

Additional Information:
- If the card already has a Display Name/Address and the list exists in the same
address book then the above problem will not occur. The problem only occurs if
the address does not exist in the current address book. 

Comment 12

[Ninoschka Baca]

The same problem occurs if autocomplete finds a match in a different address book. 
- autocomplete with an entry in the currently selected address book and these
entries' Display Name remains after closing/reopening the list dialog.
- autocomplete with an entry in a different address book and these entries'
Display Name do not appear then next time the list dialog opens. Also these
email addresses are added to the currently selected address book.

Comment 13

[Kasumi]

D & D nolonger exist in 7.0.
Please refer bug 138092.

Comment 14

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1. The issue still exists without drag-n-drop as stated in
comment# 12.

Comment 15

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 49075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Stephen Tarr]

I saw this problem under Windows 98, but more than just the display name was
being lost and there were some additional side effects.

I started with an address book imported from release 1.2, then added some new
address cards.  The new cards included addresses, phone numbers, and other
information besides just the first/last/display names and email address.

I created a new mailing list in the same address book and dragged some of the
addresses into the mailing list.  The names and email addresses appeared in the
list as expected.

Then I went back to the address book, where I found that new cards had been
created with the same first/last name and email addresses as the previous
entries, but no other information.  When I deleted one of these new entries from
the address book, the corresponding entry in the mailing list was cleared (not
completely deleted -- it still showed up in the list as an empty entry with no
name or email address.)

In this case, I would expect drag&drop to create a link back to the original
address book entry, not an entirely new card.

Comment 17

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1+/adt3

Comment 18

[Brant Gurganus]

By the definitions on <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/bug_status.html#severity> and
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided>, crashing and dataloss
bugs are of critical or possibly higher severity.  Only changing open bugs to
minimize unnecessary spam.  Keywords to trigger this would be crash, topcrash,
topcrash+, zt4newcrash, dataloss.

Comment 19

[Cavin Song]

Reassigning.

Comment 20

[shliang]

fixed w/ bug 53216

Comment 21

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-02-25: Mac 10.1.5
Trunk build 2003-03-03: WinXP
Verified Fixed. 

After performing the following tests all data was transfered from one address
book to a second address book (including Display Name, address etc...). 

- Drag-n-drop a card from one address book to a list in a second address book in
the left pane.
- With the list open in the second address book, used autocomplete to choose an
address entry from the first address book.
- In the above tests I also deleted an entry from the list. The entry is removed
from the list and its corresponding card remains in the selected address book as
expected.

It looks great!