557624 - Add (using 'star' shortcut) then Edit details - address card does not contain Address Book field drop-down

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 456167

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1045 Safari/532.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4

When you want to add (then Edit) a Contact using the star button on the email they just sent you, when you press the Edit Details button you cannot add them to a specific Address Book when you have multiple address books.

This is just annoying as it means you cannot properly manage new contacts using this tool - you then have to go into Address Books and drag contacts around.

What seems strange is that the multiple address books drop-down does exist when you go to the Address Book and manually create a New Contact - there are the top the first option is Add to... (choice of address books).

This is not something broken but just very inconvenient especially when we try and provide IT support to our less technically able clients and for whom I want a straight forwards approach to promote them the merits of such fine product as Thunderbird...!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the star to add email address to contacts/Address book
2. Click on star again then click on Edit Details to assign new contact to Address Book
3. No Add to... choice of address book
Actual Results:  
missing address book dropdown

Expected Results:  
no address book dropdown...