1323527 - When exporting 'All Address Books', just use the Address Book Name and do not prompt for each one

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Charles]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161208153507

Steps to reproduce:

Exported 'All Address Books'


Actual results:

Received a prompt for each Address Book (I have 8).

I understand bug 1284379 fixed the blank name problem I was also going to report, but the multiple prompts are really unnecessary in my opinion


Expected results:

I envision a single prompt that comes up when exporting 'All Address Books'.

This prompt should say something like:

You are about to export all ## of your Address Books (each will be exported to a single file with the same name as the Address Book) to the following location:

Location info with a browse button next to it

then some buttons:

[OK]   [Cancel]

Personally I don't see a need for it, but a third button could also be provided to 'Export each Address Book individually', if someone thinks this would still be useful.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I think the current UI is quite unfortunate. Having to OK (or cancel) each address book individually can be quite a pain.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Charles from comment #0)
> Personally I don't see a need for it, but a third button could also be
> provided to 'Export each Address Book individually', if someone thinks this
> would still be useful.

Individual export should still be offered as it can be useful/essential depending on users' workflows/secenarios. E.g., user might want to prepend date to each AB, so that over time you can tell your backup copies apart. But saving individually must not be default.

Charles comment 0 looks like a very good starting point for a better UX.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

UX Proposal UX1:

[Export All Address Books                                      ]

(o) Express export:
    Select a folder for saving all address books, and use
    the name of each address book as default file name
    Save as type: [Comma-separated values (csv)   v]

( ) Custom export:
    For each address book, select file name, type, and folder
    for saving

                                          *[Export...]* [Cancel]


# For express export, we'll show the folder selector (same as Save All Attachments):

[Export all attachments                                    ]

{OS-specific visual folder selector}

                [Export all]* [Cancel]

*: There's an existing bug that we currently use OS default dialogue button of [Select Folder] and it's not clear if/how it can be customized or not. We can get away with [Select Folder] for a start.

# For custom export, we'll show the same dialogue as now for each AB, but tweaked a bit:

[Export All Address Books (1/8) - Personal Address Book        ]

{OS-specific visual file/folder name selector}

File name:    [Personal Address Book.csv         ]
Save as type: [Comma-separated values (csv)      ]

                           [Save][Cancel][Cancel All]*

*: If we could succeed to inject a separate [Cancel All] button, that would be good.
Otherwise, I'm not sure if Cancel should just cancel the current AB or the whole sequence. Just cancelling/skipping the current Ab also makes sense imo, more so as we now offer express export.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. (needinfo?me) from comment #3)
> # For express export, we'll show the folder selector (same as Save All
> Attachments):
> 
> [Export all attachments                                    ]

That's obviously [Export all address books      ], not attachments...

Comment 5

[Charles]

(In reply to Thomas D. (needinfo?me) from comment #3)
> UX Proposal UX1:
> 
> [Export All Address Books                                      ]
> 
> (o) Express export:
>     Select a folder for saving all address books, and use
>     the name of each address book as default file name
>     Save as type: [Comma-separated values (csv)   v]
> 
> ( ) Custom export:
>     For each address book, select file name, type, and folder
>     for saving
> 
>                                           *[Export...]* [Cancel]
> 
> 
> # For express export, we'll show the folder selector (same as Save All
> Attachments):
> 
> [Export all Address Books                                    ]
> 
> {OS-specific visual folder selector}
> 
>                 [Export all]* [Cancel]
> 
> *: There's an existing bug that we currently use OS default dialogue button
> of [Select Folder] and it's not clear if/how it can be customized or not. We
> can get away with [Select Folder] for a start.
> 
> # For custom export, we'll show the same dialogue as now for each AB, but
> tweaked a bit:
> 
> [Export All Address Books (1/8) - Personal Address Book        ]
> 
> {OS-specific visual file/folder name selector}
> 
> File name:    [Personal Address Book.csv         ]
> Save as type: [Comma-separated values (csv)      ]
> 
>                            [Save][Cancel][Cancel All]*
> 
> *: If we could succeed to inject a separate [Cancel All] button, that would
> be good.
> Otherwise, I'm not sure if Cancel should just cancel the current AB or the
> whole sequence. Just cancelling/skipping the current Ab also makes sense
> imo, more so as we now offer express export.

Looks excellent to me - I'd just add that if it isn't possible to have a separate 'Calcel All' button, then the Cancel button should most definitely Cancel All.

Thanks Thomas!