307724 - OPML import should respect folder structure as represented by outline tree.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Pontus Freyhult]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050909 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Tb 1.4

When exporting to OPML, the folder structure seems to be represented by
outline-containers, this structure is ignored.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a non-flat structure in a News & Blogs account
2. Export
3. Remove feeds (or change to another News & Blogs account)
4. Import
Actual Results:  
All feed folders are in the account root.

Expected Results:  
Folder structure should be conserved.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 307862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

-> NEW

Comment 3

[mchargue]

Just a note: it seems that EXPORTING does respect folder structure.  If you add feeds and create folders so that there is some hierarchy, and export OPML, the folder structure is evident.  But if you then create a new account and IMPORT that same OPML, it doesn't respect the hierarchy.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 338632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Adrian Petrescu]

I will take a look this weekend and perhaps implement this feature. Please let me know soon if somebody is already working on this so I don't waste effort.

Comment 6

[Sergiy Zuban]

I confirm it's still not implemented in 3.0 alpha 2.
It's pity that so easy thing takes years to be fixed. :(

Comment 8

[Armond Avanes]

Odd to see this open since 2005. It's all about XML parsing and creating some subfolders according to OPML groups! It should have straight forward implementation. Hope to see this fixed before v3.0 goes final!

Comment 10

[dror3go]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Hope to see this fixed before v3.0 goes final!

Well, that didn't happened of course :-)

Are bugs related to TB's feed reader currently on a low priority? as of 3.1.x - the feed reader is extremely basic and IMO isn't really useful.

Comment 11

[Nicolas Borboën]

Attachment: Test OPML file with sub-outilne

Here are a test file with sub-directory in feeds (sub-outlines) in order to test importation. Please note that OPML export keeps this structure while the export flattern all.

Comment 12

[alta88]

fixed in Bug 750292.

Comment 13

[rafael.linux.user]

Still not fixed. Folder structure when importing from OPML is not working. All "outline" entries ends on same level/folder. You can check it importing the next OPML file:

http://dip-badajoz.es/canales/lista_de_fuentes.opml

All feeds channels will be mixed at same level.

Comment 14

[lazar.zenit]

I just started using Thunderbird and I see this is still an issue. As the previous user stated, Feed doesn't respect outline structure and mashes all entries into one as a folder.