375336 - Task list vanished!

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Tasks, defect)

Description

[geo. anderson]

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: 0.3.1

Task list vanished & I can't get it back.  Display shows only the calendar pane.  Fujitsu P1610 running XP Tablet SP2 without a lot of extra background junk running.  Only ZoneAlarm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Today I rebooted XP, something that I hadn't done on my tablet for a few days and when Sunbird came up the task list was not visible although (1) it had been visible before the reboot and (2) the check mark for View/Task List was visible.
Actual Results:  
App is unresponsive to View/Task List menu switch.

Expected Results:  
View/Task List should turn view of task list on and off.

I have fiddled with lots of stuff to no avail.  I can show the tasks in the calendar panel (View/Tasks in View) so I know that they are still there but no amount of fiddling has made the list reappear.

I have been using Sunbird for several months but lightly.  Total number of tasks is maybe five.  I am also running Firefox and Tbird, latest builds on both.  The latest Firefox build 2.0.0.3 was loaded in the last couple of days, so the reboot is probably the first time that Sunbird was stopped and restarted since Firefox was updated.

No extensions (in Sunbird) are loaded except Talkback.

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Do you see the left handed pane that normally shows the Minimonth and Calendars tab on top and the task list on bottom? If not it's probably just collapsed. Click the left window border and drag it to the right.

Are there any error messages shown in Tools -> Error Console during startup or if you switch on/off View -> Task List?

Comment 2

[geo. anderson]

Auto-collapse!  That was it.  Possibly not a bug, but a feature?  ;-)  Thanks.

Seriously, I suggest that View/Tasks should at least minimally un-collapse a collapsed section to avoid the problem of future users having the same issue that I did.

No errors shown in the Error Console.

Thanks again.

Comment 3

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

I'm glad that your problem was that easy to solve. 
Resolving WFM per comment #2.