294954 - add root / "Pseudo-book" to view contents of all address books

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Barnes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Fedora/1.0.4-2 Firefox/1.0.4

An excellent addition to the Thunderbird address book would be the ability to
view all address books at once, instead of just one at a time.  This doesn't
seem to me like it would be difficult, and I would recommend the use of a
"pseudo-book" that would remain at the top of the list of books.  This book
could be named "All" and could have an alternate icon to distinguish it from the
real books.

I have helped several people migrate to Thunderbird from Outlook Express, and
some of them like to sync their Palm handhelds with their Thunderbird address
books.  Several of them have asked about this feature, as it is something that
they were able to do with the Palm Desktop software.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

would also be helpful in finding duplicate entries

Comment 3

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy y'all,

my tb info ...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 - Build ID: 2005120115

to avoid having this bug auto-resolved for lack of activity over the last few months, i am posting this msg.

there have been times when i wanted to test in a filter for membership in ANY of my address books. this rfe would do the job. currently i need to add a test for each of my 4 address books. certainly would be nifty to have an "any address book" or "all address books" entry.

it would also simplify reading/debugging filters when doing maintenance.

take care,
lee