32929 - Address Book: Clicking onto a blank column resorts

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect, P3)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Build 2000-03-22-11M15trunk: Win95
Build 2000-03-22-08M15trunk: Linux 6.0, Mac 8.5.1

Overview: Clicking on the "Organization" column changes the sort, even when 
there are no entries in the Organization column.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an Address Book where each address book card leaves the "Organization" 
field blank.
2. Click onto the Organization column

Actual Results: Notice that the address book entries are resorted but I'm not 
sure in what order.

Expected Results: It doesn't make sense to be able to sort on a column that 
doesn't have any entries. What should the behavior be?

Comment 1

[selmer (gone)]

Not beta2 stopper.  Marking M18.  Please let me know if you disagree.

Comment 2

[hangas]

Mass move mailnews bugs to Putterman.  Ouch.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

luis - can you see if this is still a problem in the latest Windows build?

Comment 4

[jglick]

Using 7-7-21-M17 build: still a problem.

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

moving to future milestone.

Comment 6

[pmock]

Changing qa assign to myself.

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

reassigning to chuang.

Comment 8

[fenella]

Assign it to myself.

Comment 9

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham.

Comment 10

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking, this is fixed with the AB_OUTLINER_BRANCH.

the secondary sort column is now email.  so if you were to click on a column
that had all blank, it would sort by email.

Comment 11

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

fixed.

Comment 12

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2002-01-28-03: WinMe
Trunk build 2002-01-28-08: Linux RH 7.1
Trunk build 2002-01-28-08: Mac 10.1
Verified Fixed, clicking on a blank column resorts the email column. 

Although I'm wondering why it performs the secondary sort since I'm clicking on 
a blank column.