1143186 - [Contacts][Export] User is unable to share multiple contacts at once with Messages or Email.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect)

Description

[Martin Shuman [:Marty]]

Attachment: logcat-Export-Multiple-Contacts.txt

Description:
If the user goes to Export Contacts, they are able to select and share multiple contacts at once via Bluetooth, but there is not an option to share via Email or Messages.

This is inconsistent with the way that the Video and Gallery apps are able to share multiple files at once via Messages and Email.

The user is able to attach multiple contacts to a single MMS from within the Messages or Email apps, one at a time.  Alternatively, the user can share contacts one at a time by selecting 'Share contact' from the Contact Details screen.  There is currently no simple way to select and share multiple contacts at once.

Note: This was formerly an available feature, but appears to have been removed with the resolution of bug 1130654.

Repro Steps:
1) Update a Flame to 20150313010238
2) Add 2 or more contacts to the device.
3) Open the Contacts app and select the Gear icon to navigate to Settings.
4) Select Export Contacts.

Actual:
Bluetooth is available to share multiple contacts, but Email and Messages are not available options.

Expected:
Bluetooth, Email, and Messages are all available options to share multiple contacts at once.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame 3.0 (319MB)(Full Flash)
Build ID: 20150313010238
Gaia: eabe35cf054d47087b37c1ca7db8143717fbd7f3
Gecko: 42afc7ef5ccb
Gonk: ebad7da532429a6f5efadc00bf6ad8a41288a429
Version: 39.0a1 (3.0)
Firmware Version: v18D-1
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:39.0) Gecko/39.0 Firefox/39.0

Repro frequency: 5/5
See attached: Video Clip (URL), Logcat

Comment 1

[Martin Shuman [:Marty]]

This issue DOES occur on Flame 2.2.
Bluetooth is available to share multiple contacts, but Email and Messages are not available options.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame 2.2
Build ID: 20150309162503
Gaia: 166491b92278dc9e648f8d49ab02d9ca00d74421
Gecko: 9ae4bcc9b5f2
Gonk: e7c90613521145db090dd24147afd5ceb5703190
Version: 37.0 (2.2)
Firmware Version: v18D-1
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:37.0) Gecko/37.0 Firefox/37.0

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This issue does NOT occur on Flame 2.1
Email and Messages are not able to attach Contacts in this branch.

Comment 2

[Peter Bylenga [:PBylenga]]

NI on component owner for nomination decision.

Comment 3

[Eric Chang [:ericcc] [:echang]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:
Feature request.

Another question: Is Contacts team using the tracking-b2g flag? Or just use the blocking-b2g=backlog?

Comment 4

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

This functionality was introduced in bug 1007932.

Comment 5

[Francisco Jordano [:arcturus] [:francisco]]

IMO, we are talking about different features.

If I understood correctly you would like to appear as options under the 'export' section email and mms. We never had that in purpose , as Johan commented we recently added the chance to share 1 contact.

If we want to allow multipe selection, for us this is an export, and we should add the extra methods on the settings. But again that's something new.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on