450654 - Custom Columns lose sort order when switching folder views.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Chris Mohler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080724)

I've written an extension that adds a custom column, based on this tutorial:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions:Thunderbird:Creating_a_Custom_Column

Works OK, except it forgets sort order if you sort by the custom column.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add custom Column
2. Sort by custom Column
3. Open another folder
4. Return to original folder
Actual Results:  
Original folder is no longer sorted.

Expected Results:  
Original folder should retain its sort order.

Comment 1

[Chris Mohler]

Attachment: Extension adding a custom colums (sort by email address)

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Have you tried this with 3.0a2?

Comment 3

[Chris Mohler]

I just installed it and noticed only one difference in 3.0a2:

Reverse sort is inconsistent - a range from z-0 comes first, then a smaller range of 0-z afterwards.  I have not really investigated this yet.  Forward sort seems to be OK (same as in 2.0.0.16).

The sort order is still lost in 3.0a2 when switching folders.

Comment 4

[Chris Mohler]

Update - Reverse sort is broken on the 'From' column (among others) in 3.0a2.  I removed all extensions before testing.  I'm going to file a separate bug for that - I did not find a matching one in BZ.

Comment 5

[lsmod]

I have the problem with version 2.0.0.19 and the standard Date-column.
I want as standard a sort that the newest mail is on top.
Normally this sort is recognized in different folders.

But sometimes this sort-order is forgotten and i must set it again in every folder.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Chris, Ismod, do you still see this problem?

Comment 7

[Chris Mohler]

OK, using version 11.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.10.1~mts1, all extensions disabled.

Sort order seems to be remembered now when switching folders.  The only thing I see is: when I select a new sort column, the asc/desc indicator still appears on the previously selected sort column until a mouse over.  

Sort order seems fine, both forward and reverse.

I'll see if I can update that original add-on for a custom column and see what that does.

Comment 8

[Chris Mohler]

Initial report still valid.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add custom Column
2. Sort by custom Column
3. Open another folder
4. Return to original folder
Actual Results:  
Original folder is no longer sorted.

Expected Results:  
Original folder should retain its sort order.

The how-to was moved here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Custom_Column

Comment 9

[Chris Mohler]

Attachment: Dummy extension

This is a useless extension that just adds an 'Email' column to the message list pane.  It's displaying "sender" just because "replyTo" and "reply-to" both came up empty, and I got tired of fiddling with it ;)  It's loosely based on:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Custom_Column

Comment 10

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Confirming with Thunderbird 17.0.6 on Windows XP SP3 32 bit.

Comment 11

[Jonathan Kamens]

Wow, almost seven years after this issue was first reported, and it's still broken.

Noticing it now because one of my users complained that sorting by my custom column wasn't being preserved, so I figured my code must be doing something wrong. Spent a couple of hours trying to figure out what was wrong in my code, before I was sufficiently convinced that it wasn't my fault to search the bug database.

Comment 12

[alta88]

Fixed in Bug 1192838 and friends.