44335 - Provide a way to copy an email address from the cc list

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Now that we have this new form of cc, there's no longer a way to copy an email 
address.  This is very annoying when, say, trying to cc everyone from one bug 
to the bug that it's been marked a duplicate of.

Could we have a button to copy the selected email addresses (comma delimited)?  
Would just involve a little JS.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Eek.  I'm the one that caused this predicament.  I never thought about copying 
addresses out of it, but you're right, I had done that from time to time before, 
too.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, I can't find any mention of the clipboard or copying or pasting in the 
O'Reilly Javascript reference...  so unless you know something I don't, it's not 
going to be that easy.  However, what I did figure out how to do (and it would be 
friendly to the people that don't have Javascript, also) is to dynamically alter 
a link when it's clicked on...  say a mailto link that contained the addresses of 
everyone on the CC list by default.  The onClick handler for it will scan the CC 
list and modify the link to include only the selected names before activating the 
link.  If the person doesn't have Javascript, they'd get them all anyway (a 
reasonable tradeoff).  I assume your reason for copying an email address from the 
CC line is so you can email that person individually?  In that case, this would 
work, right?

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Hi Dave,

  Actually, no...my reason for copying email addresses from the cc list is to 
transfer them to other cc lists.  I'll look more into the JS problem when i get 
home (i'm currently away).  Even displaying them in plain text on the page when 
clicked on would be fine...just anything to let me copy them.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Dawn Endico]

I don't think this is a problem and that adding yet another button to the UI
will be bad, but maybe you can figure out some elegent solution. good luck

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

There's currently no way of copying many of the things in the UI.  Maybe have a
link which shows the bug in a read-only text mode.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hmm, isn't that what the "Format For Printing" link does?  Hmm, the CC's aren't 

listed on that...

Comment 7

[timeless]

We do have an xml export version, but i don't remember how to get to that.

Comment 8

[Chris Yeh]

ieeee.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

timeless - http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/xml.cgi?id=44335?

Comment 10

[timeless]

not useful but http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_activity.cgi?id=44335 works. 
it's just a royal pain. ARG it means i can't ask us to use word wrap, because 
then dumb nc4 will prevent us from pasting them into the next cc list.

Comment 11

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I suggest we add CC to "Format For Printing" and mark this one FIXED.

Comment 12

[timeless]

Or we could make Cc a link to all cc's. I might do that ...

Comment 13

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

-> Bugzilla product, User Interface component, reassigning.

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 15

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 64468, "Ability to copy text from listboxes".

Javascript is not allowed to place text directly on the clipboard (see bug 97284
comment 157).

Comment 16

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 17

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 18

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

No one working on it, and it doesn't seem to be a big impediment; dropping
priority and pushing off.  Perhaps this should really be WONTFIXed as a browser
bug.  Do other browsers let you copy text from drop-down menus?

Comment 19

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.

Comment 20

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

The modal UI created for BMO and shipping with Bugzilla 6.0 allows to do this.