321269 - date and timestamp address book card entry when added and changed and allow sorting by date

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

provide timestamp of either create date or last edit (probably more useful than create).  provide sortable column in address book UI.

purpose - to permit revisiting AB in near future and review changes in the last x hours or days to, for example:

* complete / add information to the entries (bug 194783)
* move entry to differet AB, eg created new entry in the wrong AB
* delete, eg a mistake - important if one is using AB in conjunction of junk mail filter

without this capability - probably impossible to find entries that need action in a book of 100s or 1,000s of entries.
similar to bug 194783 (but bug 194783 suggests using custom fields)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

address book is a valuable resource and deserves good functions and tools to manage it.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This would in theory be possible. Though I think you may need to take into account timezones etc.

IMO this should be done at database level (ldap/outlook/mork) rather than card level, so that the individual types can implement it how they want (e.g. ldap servers already implement it I believe).

As the field is already present, in theory it wouldn't be too hard to implement this.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> IMO this should be done at database level (ldap/outlook/mork) rather than card
> level, so that the individual types can implement it how they want (e.g. ldap
> servers already implement it I believe).

Ok, so we do already do this for mork databases at least (ldap should use what the server provides). So if this were to be done, it'd in theory be a matter of hooking the relevant displays up to the appropriate field in the cards.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

so we just need UI?  Cool!

(ref comment 1)

Comment 7

[karolina80kielar]

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