421335 - ability to explicitly save advanced search settings as default / template

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Allow advanced search settings to be saved and used in future as default or a template.

Different people prefer different search behavior, some as a matter of personal preference, some as a matter of task related necessity. Several bugs talk about this [1].  Rather than debate which setting is more correct or beneficial than another, perhaps everyone could be satisfied if advanced search dialog can be tailored to the individual.

Example, in a new dialog, select and set several criteria the way you like - ALL or ANY, folder, several search criteria (including ones with empty criteria), display columns, sort of results, etc - then click a "save settings" button. 

Close advanced search and reopen, you have all those settings without any hassle.  "clear" should probably do exactly that - clear all settings.  So maybe add a reset button to reset the panel to defaults.

[1]
296962  Add search criterion "anything contains" -- make default for Advanced
389488 	"Entire message" search fails if charset not known - should use default charset.
324113 	Defaults for advanced search (find) should be "Body contains", and "Match all"
340413 	Search Messages: Should default to "Match all" rather than "Match any" of the following criteria
Bug 125631 – mail search: default should by "all" instead of "any"
Bug 297251 – [advanced search] searching resets the sort order / sort column

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming, and tweaking summary a bit.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

The new summary isn't bad - it is an improvement, and simple - but I think not totally what I am looking for.

original - save advanced search settings as default / template
revised  - Save advanced search settings should remember last settings

Original provides a known setting on startup, and perhaps whenever I want to reset. Revised only gives me the most recent setting.

Have to think on this some more. May be a good topic for newsgroup.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

preferring something closer to the original summary