158062 - Can't change the order of Address Books (sort ABs)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[François Gagnon]

There should be a way, like a drag and drop feature, to move an Address Book up
or down the Address Books list.

I think this bug is related to others like the #17230 "Can't rename AB name" one.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 179882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 224411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 203946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Joe Infla]

This is an enhancement request; adding keyword to summary; adding source link.

Comment 5

[Robert]

Or even a way to sort the existing address books by ascending or descending,
although being able to have trees of address books would be very nice.

Comment 6

[Thomas Scott]

When searching address books, we want the corporate directory searched 1st and
then any personal address books.  Current settings do not allow for this.

Comment 7

[Tom Metro]

(In reply to comment #0)
> There should be a way, like a drag and drop feature, to move an Address Book up
> or down the Address Books list.

There is a manual workaround for this problem in Thunderbird that may be
applicable to Seamonkey. See bug #275485 Comment #2.

Comment 8

[Tom Metro]

(In reply to comment #6)
> When searching address books, we want the corporate directory searched 1st and
> then any personal address books. Current settings do not allow for this.

I think search order is a separate issue from display order (even though the two
happen to be the same currently), and so I've created a separate bug for that:
bug #292153.

Comment 9

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

[e-mail] writes:

"I have abandoned Mozilla in favour of Thunderbird - and have manually
eliminated address books that are not in alphabetical sequence.  The remaining
address books, and any new address books, are is ascending order.

I still can't add sub-address books in Thunderbird - but that is not too much of
a problem.

I think that the Mozilla problems I was having may have been due to the fact
that I have been using versions of Mozilla since the early Netscape days."

Comment 10

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 272940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 275485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reported at http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/alphabetize_address_book_names

Manual process at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=889185&p=4662625

Comment 14

[Anje]

This bug was initially started in 2002.
It was reported again see bug number 212667

I can confirm, that over the past year, i have tested this on all versions released in that time period and it is still a bug.

Using Vista and version 24.1.1
In config Editor
ldap_2.servers.pab.position  was set as 1
ldap_2.servers.history.position  was set as 2

2 other address books did not have a .position entry, but had all the other ldap entries.
one sub list (Mailing list) of Personal Address Book has a .position as 0

Other address books that were deleted ages ago only displayed one item and it was the .position information with integer 0
I was supprised to still see these entries as I expected deleted items to not exist.

I created .position entries for the 2 working addressbook that had no .position information.

I set one as integer 1, pab as integer 2, history as integer 3 and the last one as integer 4.
The remaining deleted address books still show a .position as 0.
the mailing list also remained as 0.

The config editor was closed and I clicked on OK to save changes to Options.

Opened Address Book - no change to order.

Closed and reopened Thunderbird (also tested in Safe Mode) but the order remains unchanged.

Any thoughts?

Comment 15

[Anje]

Further testing:
In addition to the previous comment
Modified all zero entries
Changed the mailing list .position to 5
made all old deleted addressbook .position to 6

This had no effect on the order of address books in the Address Book Directory Pane.