37774 - ability to rename Custom 1-4 fields in address book

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

In The DateBook in palmOS it is possible to rename the Custom 1-4 field.

It would be great if mozilla could do the same

Comment 1

[lchiang]

helpwanted

Comment 2

[Justin Bradford]

Attachment: backend support for displaying a user specified custom label

This is the backend support (all in XUL and js) to display a user preference
specified string in place of the hard-wired "Custom 1/2/3/4" in both the
address book display and edit screens. The user strings are set using the
preferences:
"mail.addr_book.displayCustom.label1", 
"mail.addr_book.displayCustom.label2", 
"mail.addr_book.displayCustom.label3", 
"mail.addr_book.displayCustom.label4"

Comment 3

[Justin Bradford]

I still need a UI to edit the fields. How would that be best handled?
An additional frame under the Mail/News prefs group? Squeezed onto the
"Addressing" frame? Or something else?

However, alone this patch is still useful (at least others can set labels in
their user.js files) and is trivial. I have cvs commit privileges, so I just
need review and approval. Anyone?

I can't change keywords, but if someone else can I think they should now be:
ui,patch,review.

Comment 4

[Justin Bradford]

*** Bug 118975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Justin Bradford]

-> me; new patch coming soon

Comment 6

[Justin Bradford]

I'm having XUL problems, so I won't have a patch for 1.2.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Justin, are you still working on this?

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I just received word by email from Justin (thanks) that he doesn't have time to
work on this right now.

Moving to Core address book & assigning to default owner for someone to pick up.

Comment 9

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

*** Bug 324389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Günter]

Hi Mark,
is this based on user.js implemented? 
Just tried, but no sucess with eg:
user_pref("mail.addr_book.displayCustom.label4", "OL_Cat");

Working with: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 - Build ID: 2007012204

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> is this based on user.js implemented? 

The patch has never been reviewed or checked in, so it won't work. Feel free to try and update the patch to the current trunk as looking at it I wouldn't expect it to apply as it is.

Comment 12

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

No longer exist as such with the new address book in tb 102.