224863 - Address book filter should also look for nicknames - quick search

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 118624

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031029 Firebird/0.7+

The Thunderbird address book window has a bar that says "Name or Email
contains". Typing text there only looks in the name or the email. It should also
look in the Nickname field.

Take for instance somebody called William who is commonly called Bill. One would
have William as the official name and Bill as nickname. Typing Bill in the bar
should also present our friend Bill.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Address book window
2. Type a nickname in the field "Name or Email contains".

Actual Results:  
Persons with that nickname are not presented in the filtered results.

Expected Results:  
All persons with that nickname should be presented in the filtered results.

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

This works fine for me using Tb 1.0.

Have you tried this in a recent version Ben?

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

Ignore that last comment.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

severity -> enhance

(similar moz Bug 118624)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

mod summary

Comment 5

[philiptdotcom]

...in particular, when typing an address (e.g., to:, cc:, etc.), NICKNAMES that
match what's typed should be matched (e.g., typing "laurief" should pick up last
name "Furumoto", first name "Laurie", nickname "lauriefurumoto"--it doesn't now).

Possibly(?) also related to bug #s 295428, 224863, 298438

Comment 6

[philiptdotcom]

oops, forgot to add:

using Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716) on WinXP Pro

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> match what's typed should be matched (e.g., typing "laurief" should pick 
> up last name "Furumoto", first name "Laurie", nickname "lauriefurumoto"

I don't agree with that statement; I'm not sure it's even what you intended 
to say.  Typing "laurief" should only match on nickname "lauriefurumoto" and 
an email address of "[e-mail]" -- other people named "Laurie" or "Furumoto" should not be selected as a match.



If Address Book were a Core component (like it obviously should be), we could dupe this to the other bug.

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> If Address Book were a Core component (like it obviously should be), we could
> dupe this to the other bug.

Address Book is already present as a core component, however product specific areas still remain as some of the UI is branched (hence why we still have MAS/Address Book and Thunderbird/Address Book. Bug 118624 is now in Core/Mailnews: Address Book so I'm duping this one to that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118624 ***

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Thanks, Mark.