362174 - Ability to assign multiple categories

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 316927

(Calendar :: Sunbird Only, enhancement)

Description

[Eugene]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061006 Sunbird/0.3

There are times when I need to assign multiple categories to a single event or task.  Other calendar/PIM applications support this and those multiples get lost when importing.
Suggest a ... button to the right of the Category drop down or some keyword such as multiple at the top of the list which brings up a list of all categories with check boxes beside each to allow selection of multiple categories.  By adding this to the existing drop down will still allow those who are used to or prefer the current method to continue to quickly select a single category from the drop down.  If multiple categories are already assigned to an entry and a user selects a single category it may be a good idea prompt user to either replace all with the selected or open the multiple category editor.
Suggest widening the category drop down to allow more room to display multiple.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Joey Minta]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316927 ***