373220 - Ability to print selected address book contacts. Prints only first contact

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[david maxwellson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird/1.5-2.0b2

When one has many contacts in an address book and I only want to print some of them, I have to move them all to a new address book or to a list within the current address book.  I can select multiple contacts for writing to multiple people; I should also be able to select them the same way for printing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Populate an address book with 3 or more contacts.
2. CTRL+click more than 1 but less than all contacts.
3. try to print the selected set.  "Print Preview Card" and "Print Card" from the File menu are greyed (expected, since more than one contact is selected).  However, "Print Address Book" still just prints the whole book.


Expected Results:  
An option to print selected contacts seems intuitive.  Since it can print lists, it seems like it could print multiple contacts the same way.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Moving to Core/Address Book as it affects SeaMonkey as well.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This is wfm for TB 10.
Should we close it or move it to SeaMonkey?

Remaining problems:
- Bug 120273 (multiple contacts print on one page each instead of list-style)
- Print Preview Card (due to bug 120273) will show only preview of *one* selected card (might need a new bug)

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

For me when multiple contacts are selected only the first contact is printed (at least in preview).
The multiple select is ignored. Not unlike bug 121159 :)

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)
> For me when multiple contacts are selected only the first contact is printed
> (at least in preview).

Precisely. It works from main menu (wasting lots of paper, bug 120273, see my comment 3), but print preview fails (and printing from print preview, too).

So comment 0 is obsolete, and I've filed the remaining preview issue as bug 1128329.

> The multiple select is ignored. Not unlike bug 121159 :)

Structurally similar indeed.