270305 - Difficult to map fields for csv import

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95087

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Boyd Williamson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

Mapping of csv fileds to email fields is difficult. When moving fields up and
down, mapping does not remain fixed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Move first field up or down to desired mapping
2. Move additional fields up or down to new mapping
3. Observe that previous mappings have changed

Actual Results:  
Incorrect mapping

Expected Results:  
Correct mapping

I like your product. Workaround is to reorder field order in csv to match e-mail
fields (cumbersome)

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Changed summary to something more descriptive than just "csv import".

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 288262 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 5

[mdedeboer]

Very true reordering the mappings is nearly impossible.  Outlook and Outlook Express auto detect the correct order of the mappings based on the first row.  No reason why Thunderbird can't be better.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

probably a dup, or other bugs could be duped to it