117836 - mailing list selected in directory pane, add a new card and the card does not remain in the mailing list

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-01-02-03: WinMe
Trunk build 2002-01-02-08: Linux RH 7.1

Overview: With the list selected in the directory pane, add a card and the card
does not remain associated with the list. Yet it's added to the parent address book.


Steps to reproduce:

1. Select a list in the directory pane (i.e. a list from the Personal Address Book)
2. Select the New Card button and create a new card, ok (notice that the card
appears in the results pane as expected so it appears as an entry for the list)
3. Click onto the parent address book (i.e Personal Address Book) and the new
entry also appears there).
4. Select the list again in the directory pane

Actual Results: The new entry does not appear in the results pane yet the card
remains in the Personal Address Book. It's just not associated with the list
anymore.

Expected Results: The new entry should appear in the results pane when the list
is selected from the directory pane.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because this could appear as data loss and the user shouldn't
have to perform the workaround.

Workaround is to select the parent address book, select the list from the
results pane, edit and then add the card. Now it remains associated with the list.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

*** Bug 122537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Michael Buckland]

Discussed in Mail News with Mktng, QA, Engineering and PjM.  Decided to minus
this bug.

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 101484 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ninoschka Baca]

Copied from comment#4 in bug# 101484, statement by jglick:

'When you select "New Card", the dialog that opens displays the AB to which the 
card will be added. I like nbaca's idea that the card is added to the selected 
Mailing List, as well as the parent AB. 4.x does this as well.'

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

not 1.2, but maybe 1.8

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 245103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

to reproduce:

1)  open addressbook, select a mailing list in the dir pane
2)  do new card, note in the new card dialog the address book (that contains the
mailing list) is selected.  the mailing lists are not listed in the menu list.
3)  add the card, it appears to show up in the mailing list card list pane
4)  switch to the mailing list's parent addressbook, see the card you added
5)  switch back to the mailing list, the card is gone

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 259795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Peter Felix Schuster]

Thunderbird Bug 272823 seems to be similiar.

Comment 11

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 283570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I had a word with Seth and he isn't working on this bug at the moment. Therefore
removing the assigned status.

Comment 13

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 272823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Peter Felix Schuster]

This bug really complicates work with address lists in Thunderbird. I have to install a few new address lists every few months, and this bug about triples the work time needed.

Comment 15

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Related bug 85687

Comment 16

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 324177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** Bug 324177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 338373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 341589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 25

[Andrea Govoni]

I've just tried to reproduce this bug with the latest SeaMonkey 2.1a1pre nightly build [1].
With this build the new card doesn't appear in the results pane of the selected mailing list (see step 2 of the OP's comment), but IMO this bug is still valid because we need a way to insert a card into a mailing list at creation time.
A solution could be a new drop-down menu next to the address book one in the form used to create a new contact. The new drop-down menu should contain the mailing lists available for the selected address book. If no list is selected, the new contact isn't inserted into any list, otherwise if the user choose a list the new contact is added to that list.
With such a system, if the user choose to add a contact when a mailing list is selected, the list drop-down menu should be already set to the current mailing list.


[1] Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091116 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre