134435 - RFE: Advanced Address Book Search: ability to search address book's "Other" flap, custom and notes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184483

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, enhancement)

Description

[Hakon]

The "Advanced Address Book Search" should offer the ability to search for a
string  located anywhere in the "Other" flap. This doesn't seem practically
feasible currently.

Comment 1

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 2

[Matthew Rochlin]

This is a pretty serious bug.  The fields available in the address book are
limited and a lot of info gets lumped into the Other field.  If you can't search
the OTHER field, Address Book isn't that much better than a piece of paper.

(Also The OTHER field displays without line breaks in the Card view)

Comment 3

[Mike Wilkinson]

I would use a Custom field to categorize my contacts. For example, I would enter
"Christmas" or "Prospects." Then I could search for everyone that I want to send
a Christmas card to or for everyone I need to contact for potential business.

In the notes field I would add something about the contact like "this lady
rescues animals." Then next time I need help for an animal I could search for
all contacts that have "animals." This is important because I might not remember
their name or organization name.

Comment 4

[David Harper-Jones]

a. This bug is also in the Windows version of Mozilla.

b. Really, I'd like to see the ability to search on _every_ field in the address
book: Zip code, Notes, Custom 1, 2, 3, 4, Web address, etc.

c. From Comment #2:
> (Also The OTHER field displays without line breaks in the Card view)

I've filed this as a seprate report, under bug 214822.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

hardware -> all
OS -> all
add custom and note to summary

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

The right solution here might just be to include an "Any Field" (as well as
maybe an "Any Custom", see bug 184483) item in the drop-down. The risk from a UI
perspective is including too many fields and thus making the search unweildy.