374448 - Implement multiselection actions (tag, read, flag, junk) on a selected Grouped By Sort dummy header row thread's children

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[flaimo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0pre (20070315)

when messages are sorted by "group by" and a group is selected, the tag-dropdown-menu doesn't work as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a folder with messages in it
2. activate "view -> sort by -> grouped by" to group the mails by some value like for example "date"
3. click on a group. for example "today"
4. click on the tag-dropdown-menu
Actual Results:  
the tag-dropdown-menu doesn't show any tags at all. if i click "new tag" and create a new tag it is only applied to the first mail in the group.

Expected Results:  
all available tags should be shown and the selected tag should be applied to all mails in the group.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

xref bug 367406, for task tags (like Todo) it may not always be desired.

Comment 2

[flaimo]

i don't see any connection to this bug. explain why, please. the way it is now, is definitely wrong. either it should be implemented as in "expected result" or the tag button should have a deactivated state when a group name is selected.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Ah, i thought you meant tagging of threads (The connection was that there too it may be the type of tag have implications on the usefulness of such a feature.)

Confirming this, pressing Tag on Today in grouped by mode gives me this in the js console 

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80550018 [nsIMsgDBView.hdrForFirstSelectedMessage]"  nsresult: "0x80550018 (<unknown>)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.js :: InitMessageTags :: line 626"  data: no]