150692 - Quick Search/Drag-n-Drop card into a list, now duplicate card in PAB

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2002-06-07: WinMe

Overview: Perform a Quick Search, drag-n-drop the card into a list in the
directory pane and a duplicate card is created in the top level address book. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an address book with 3 cards
2. Create a list with 2 cards
3. Perform a quick search for the 3rd card
4. Select the card from the quick search results, then drag-n-drop onto the list
in the directory pane
5. Remove the quick search query so all the address cards appear in the results pane

Actual Results: Notice that now there are two identical cards for the 3rd entry.
Each time you perform a quick search and then drag-n-drop a card to a list in
the dir pane it adds another card to the parent folder. The list itself
maintains one  card and does not have duplicates of cards.

Expected Results: Another idential card should not be created after performing a
quick search, then dragging-n-dropping the card on a list.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because Quick Search is a new feature that reviewers seemed to
like so maybe it should be considered for RTM. There is no data loss but the
parent address book can appear with many duplicate entries due to a Quick
Search/Drag-n-Drop into a mailing list.

Comment 2

[Yeh You-Ying]

Even just making the same card again and again in the same addressbook, there is
no warning for users!
Addressbook of Netscape Messenger is pretty good at this. 

Comment 3

[Yeh You-Ying]

In Mozilla 1.0 Final + Win98SE,

1. Open AddressBook
2. Make a new card in "Personal Address Book", such as 
    name: aaa
    email: [e-mail]
3. Do it agian as step 2, or said duplicate the same "aaa". 
4. No warning for this duplication and you see *two* same cards in "Personal
Address Book".
5. Making new cards(duplication) or just drag-n-drop get the same result.

A good AddressBook should make warning to users, while duplication occurs.
I think the problem is the same as bug#134590, which I filed long long long ago.
Hope it will be fixed this time.

Thanks a lot.

Comment 4

[Ninoschka Baca]

This bug states that after a Quick Search if a Drag-n-drop is performed then a
duplicate should not be created (therefore should never be warned about
duplicates being created). 

Comments #2 and #3 ask that the user be warned that duplicates are being created
when manually creating cards with the same name (bug# 45946).

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

nsbeta1- per mail triage.

Comment 6

[Yeh You-Ying]

This bug occures in all windows platforms.

Comment 7

[Yeh You-Ying]

This bug occurs in all windows platforms.

Comment 8

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 to fix this polish bug. 

Comment 9

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 10

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 11

[Loky Chiou]

My address book has been lost :(

I think there still have something error in address.

the following is situation that make me crazy :(
I created 4 address books and inport some list, but when I restart my PC, 
there all address books which I created have been show other picture 
(like a not on-line picture) and all list lost.

It's really make me carzy and angry :(

What's going on????

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050810
SeaMonkey/1.0a

created addresses 1, 2, 3
created list A with 1, 2
quick search on 3
copy 3 to A
no duplicate of 3 was created
[same results in Thunderbird]

looking for someone to confirm WFM or recreate the problem  on a current version
with new details.

Comment 13

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050810
> SeaMonkey/1.0a

This also WFM (and no comments to the contrary for a while)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051230 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Therefore closing as WFM.