117852 - Import Address Book dialog improvements needed (tab,csv,txt)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95087

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Overview: There are a variety of problems with the Text file Import Dialog

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select File|Import, select the Address Book radio button, select the Text
file option and choose the file
2. When the Import dialog appears notice:

a. It shows the first records but it would be nice to list the total number of
records to get an idea of the ab size.
b. It's overwhelming to see all the checkboxes. It's difficult to quickly
determine what steps should be performed (check or uncheck)
c. It is not obvious that you can drag-n-drop the order of items (i.e.
drag-n-drop 'First Name' after 'Last Name'.
c. After unchecking some boxes I thought I would have to go through each record
and again uncheck the items not wanted. I later found out that this isn't the
case but it wasn't obvious while looking at the first record.
d. There should be a 'check all' option
e. Maybe this dialog can include a more specific dialog title besides Import
Address Book. "Import Address Book (txt, csv...)"

Adding jglick to the Cc: list for additional ideas.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because I'm not sure if this is important for the next releast.
Maybe it's important for Enterprise?

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassigning to srilatha.

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1a. How important is improving the import *.txt, *.csv, *.tab dialog?

Comment 4

[Ian]

Additionally being able to assign multiple things to a single field would be
handy.  By this I mean having the First name, for instance, come from both the
first name and middle name of the imported account.  If there is a way to do
this, making it easier to know so would be good.

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 165209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I believe this is assigned to someone no longer with us, therefore reassigning
as I am moving this bug to core. If I am wrong, please forgive me and let me
know of your existence.