400713 - Allow showing any fields from address book as columns in compose message contacts pane (sidebar) [column picker, customize, sorting by organization, nickname etc.]

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Pander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20071008 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.6
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Currently only Name and Email are allowed to be displayed in the compose message contacts pane. For users with very large number of entries in the address book, it is very useful to allow more columns to be displayed in the compose message contacts pane for efficient selection of desired receivers.

As currently is implemented, by default Name would suffice, but please extent extra possible columns like Address with all currently visible columns off the address book.

Offering extra columns in this way will still limit the possible columns which can be shown (because of the limited space) but still allow users to have extra columns displayed to meet their own needs.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Bug 153502 for seamonkey.

Comment 2

[Pander]

For starters add Organisation as extra option, but in fact all the columns that are offered in the main view of the address book should be offered here too.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Could someone provide an mxr link to the file where we restrict the columns available from contacts sidebar's column picker?

I imagine it can't be very difficult to add all columns to the picker instead of just two.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Should be around http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/addrbook/content/abContactsPanel.xul#105

Comment 7

[Pander]

This addon is doing the job too for the new message dialogue. However, this should be standard functionality in Thunderbird.

Comment 8

[Pander]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/70

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

see also http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/contacts_sidebar_contents

Comment 10

[Marcelo Toscani Brandão]

Is there any way to show the old-style contact window instead of sidebar?
Like this one?
http://tinyurl.com/6kscyaf

Or any workaround to show the organization on the sidebar?

Comment 11

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

http://gsfn.us/t/cfui reports the same problem and mentions drag and drop from real address book into draft msg as a workaround for sorting, then adding addresses to the draft.

Comment 12

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #1)
> Bug 153502 for seamonkey.

-> added to "See also"