296563 - Need ability to select events in currently selected month in calendar view (unifinder)

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

Description

[k b]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

The drop down list where one can select which events to view, specifies:
"Events this calendar month" among others.

the problem with this is that it displays the events in the current (real time)
month, not the selected month. a better solution is to show events in the
selected month.

example:
today is 2005-06-03.
the last month i have had some events and now i need to summarize what i have
done in the last mont, so i select 2005-05, and then set the filer to "Events in
this calendar month", to see only the things i have done in May. however the
filer only shows event in 2005-06 (June).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Robin Edrenius]

Confirming on
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050807 Mozilla
Sunbird/0.2+

I'm not sure if it's supposed to show the events in the selected month instead
of the current month.

Comment 2

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 3

[Omar Bajraszewski]

IMO "Events in this calendar month" should display events in selected month...

Comment 4

[cmtalbert]

The current text in the calendar unifinder drop down is: "Events In This Calendar Month".  "This Calendar Month" has a connotation of referring to the current month that "today" is in.  For example, if today is January 21, then "this calendar month" can only be January, regardless of what month is selected in the viewer.

That said, I can understand your confusion.  I think that the way out of this is to provide a new search on the drop down: "Events in Selected Month".  This would operate the way that you envision.

Therefore, I've changed the bug to an enhancement and confirmed it.  I've also changed the summary.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Calendar
2. Browse to a future month that contains some events
3. Select the new item "Events in Selected Month"
4. Highlight all events in the currently selected month view.

Comment 5

[Bas van den Bosch]

This is the behaviour of the unifinder in sunbird (and a future unifinder in TB/Lightning if this is incorprated like Sven suggested in bug 372829 and bug 372830) I think. If in month-view you select a certain month and press ctrl-A all events in this month are selected. 

Comment 6

[Martin Schröder [:mschroeder]]

Unifinder is also available in Lightning now.