242517 - Cannot copy/paste address book entries / cards like in NS 4.7

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339227

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Hedden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

There are a lot of bugs (see 35837) about copying/pasting address book
entries. But, they seem to be about copying the SAME ENTRY between
DIFFERENT ADDRESS BOOKS. What I have in mind is being able to copy an
address book card / entry, and then pasting it or saving it, with slightly
different information, as a DIFFERENT ENTRY in the SAME ADDRESS BOOK.
(Perhaps this is really the same bug, but I was not able to find a
description of exactly what I have in mind.) Let's say I have an AB entry
for John Smith at the Acme company. Then, I get to know another person there,
Ms. Sally Peterson. ALL INFORMATION is identical (company name, address,
telephone, fax) with the exception of the person's name, the FIRST PART
of the e-mail address, and perhaps the telephone extension. I want to be
able to copy John Smith's "card", edit it, and then paste/save it as Sally
Peterson's card. This saves a LOT of redundant work. Note: This behavior
was standard in earlier versions of Netscape (? 4.7 ?).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any entry in AB
2. Click on Edit menu and try to execute "Copy" command
3.

Actual Results:  
Copy command is grayed out.

Expected Results:  
Copy command should not be grayed out. When Copy command is issued, AB entry
is opened with ability to edit and save entry. Some error/sanity checking should
be performed when entry is being saved, to check whether old entry is being
overwritten or duplicated, etc. So, I can save "John Smith" as "Sally Peterson",
just change the name, first part of e-mail address, and maybe tel. extension.

Comment 1

[Thomas Hedden]

I just got another idea, perhaps better, about how
this can be accomplished. Perhaps when you open an
AB card / entry by double clicking on it there
could simply be a third button ("OK", "Cancel",
and also "Save as"). The "Save as" button would
only work if the entry's e-mail address had been
changed; otherwise it would simply point out
that the e-mail address had not changed, explain
what the "Save as" button is used for, and ask
the user to change the address or click "OK" instead.

Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Thomas Hedden]

Tuesday 27 September 2005: Checked on Thunderbird 1.0.6 (20050716)
for Linux. Same problem.

Comment 4

[Thomas Hedden]

Tuesday 27 September 2005: Checked on address book of Mozilla 1.7.12
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920
for Linux. Same problem.

Comment 5

[Thomas Hedden]

28 September 2005: Checked in SeaMonkey address book:
SeaMonkey 1.0a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050910
SeaMonkey/1.0a
No change: I still cannot copy address book entries.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Confirming & moving to core for consideration when we get copy & paste working.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 313182 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[rocktman3]

I'm also unable to copy/move address cards from 1 address book to another. Cut, copy & paste are grayed out in the Edit menu. When sending email to a new recipient, that address is automatically placed in the "Collected Addresses" address book, which is fine as far as it goes. However, I should be able to either move or copy it to the address book I want it in w/o having to re-type the entire entry. TB version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)