184483 - "Advanced Address Book Search" dialogue: Allow searching any/every/all contact fields like Notes, Custom1 etc. from Other tab, web page, birthday, etc. (should add/unable/cannot match many card fields missing from dropdown in AB's Edit > Search Addresses)

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Ron Aronica]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

The seach facility should allow searching on the Custome fields otherwise these
fields have limited value.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 2

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

I'm not really following this bug.

is this quick search, or advanced search?

Comment 3

[David Harper-Jones]

Seth, this is ADVANCED search. See bugs 134435, 136309 and 214802 for similar
issues.

This bug is also in Linux version of Mozilla (see bug report 134435).

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.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

OS -> all
hardware -> all
severity -> enhance

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

*** Bug 227911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

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

See bug 134435 comment 6 for some thoughts on this and a related issue.

Comment 9

[Matěj Cepl]

Perhaps should be closed as a duplicate of bug 298438?

Comment 10

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Matěj Cepl from comment #9)
> Perhaps should be closed as a duplicate of bug 298438?

Thanks Matěj for your much appreciated support in finding duplicates! :)
You're right, current incomplete summary would allow duping against bug 298438.
However, per comment 3 and all 3 of current duplicates, this has been declared to be about "Advanced Address Book Search" dialogue which you'll get from AB with Edit > Search Addresses or Ctrl+Shift+F.
Let's keep AB Advanced Search and AB Quick Search separate.

Wayne, this is the earliest and least specific bug I could find about this, ok to morph (as I did) to offer every field in the Advanced Search field dropdown dialogue?

Expanding summary with relevant search words for better retrievability, avoiding dupes and ease of duping.

Comment 11

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Sorry for the traffic, still adding more search words found on existing duplicates, which I'll add in a minute (and Bugzilla only allows adding them one at a time afasik).

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

looks good

Comment 16

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I really wonder why they ever bothered to add fields like "Custom 1" etc. because there's no place in the entire UI from where you can search on these. Which makes this a bug, and probably a major one for that.

Comment 17

[Anje]

As the powers that be concerning Thunderbird have chosen to go down the web extensions route with the inevitable fallout of various addons no longer being updated.
Thunderbird developers et al, need to acknowledge their choice of direction necessitates they step up and start to enhance Thunderbird to cope with shortfall and do it with some haste.
One of those significant addon extensions was MoreFunctionsForAddressBook, which significantly improved and made the address book half decent.
Now, it is time to enhance the standard Address Book including all the options that MoreFunctionsForAddressBook used to provide.
Searches need to be on all aspects of the address book as people use the Address Book as a contact reference point which will include more data than names and addresses.
Please reset the priority and commence movement on this bug.