1063895 - Optional automatic sorting and grouping of calendar list entries

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Calendar Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

It would be nice if we could provide options to automatically sort and group calendar list entries.

Specifically, in bug 493389 there was a request to group calendars by support of events vs tasks, i.e. a section with "Events Calendars", "Tasks Calendars". By extension we probably also need a group for calendars supporting both.

Other possible grouping methods would be by identity or by type. It should always be possible to go back to the manual sort order we currently use.

Comment 1

[internero]

Philipp, we can also show only 'Events Calendars' in Calendar Tab and 'Tasks Calendars' in Tasks Tab.

This separation looks logic to me.

Thanks for filling this request :)

Comment 2

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

That makes sense, yes. It might be strange though for users that are in the calendar tab, add a new calendar through the new calendar wizard, then wondering why the calendar is not showing in the list.

I think we should go for something more advanced, kind of a display options for each of the lists. The default would be to show all calendars, but the user can click on the display options menu and limit the view, i.e a menuitem "Hide calendars that only support tasks".

Comment 3

[erihe251]

I'm all for automatic, but I would be happy even if there was a only manual way of grouping of calendars. :)

For users that has a lot of calendars (~15 for me) it would make life easier if they could be grouped, and especially so if visibility could be toggled on a group basis.

Outlook has this kind of functionality, it's the only thing it has over TB in my eyes.