183554 - LDAP autocomplete should display results in alphabetical order

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: LDAP Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-12-04: WinMe, Mac 10.1.3
haven't tried linux yet.

Overview: Autocomplete with an LDAP directory and the results do not appear in
alphabetical order. This can mislead a user to thinking that their desired
address is not present.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to Preferences, Address panel and add an LDAP directory (i.e. Netscape).
Select this directory for Autocompletion.
2. Exit/restart for changes to take effect
3. Compose a message and start typing
jennifer

Actual Results: In my case the first address listed is Jennifer M....
I have to go down about 5 more addresses before I see Jennifer Glick.

Expected Results: I would expect autocomplete to display the address choices in
alphabetical order. In my case I would expect Jennifer Glick to appear before
Jennifer M.....

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 so this is considered to be fixed for the next release.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Assigning bugs that I'm not actively working on back to nobody; use SearchForThis as a search term if you want to delete all related bugmail at once.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The ordering is here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/addrbook/src/nsAbAutoCompleteSearch.js#399
So, if it's wontfix or worksforme depending on the details of the original request.