572753 - Invite Attendees dialog: Not possible to paste multiple comma-delimited email addresses to invite multiple attendees at once

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[hallrj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Lightning 1.0b2pre

In e.g. thunderbird, a long list of comma-delimited email addresses can be pasted into the To: field in the compose dialog.  Thunderbird will auto-newline the addresses onto multiple To: lines, making it simple to email multiple people when you have a set of their email addresses.

To invite say 25 people to a set of different meetings, there's no apparent way to paste in the set of email addresses into the Lightning 'invite attendees' panel in the same way you can in thunderbird for email.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. File -> New -> Event
2. Click 'invite attendees'
3. Attempt to paste in comma-delimited or newline-delimited list of email addresses into the invite 
Actual Results:  
The list of invitees remains on a single line separated by commas (regardless of whether the text being pasted was comma- or newline-separated)

Expected Results:  
Lightning should have split the list of invitees onto multiple lines (so e.g. free/busy lookup can do its thing).

Philipp (Fallen) suggested I file this in #calendar

Comment 1

[d2_c2]

Agreed. This should be possible.  There is no good, convenient way to enter attendees into the invite attendees pane.

Comment 2

[Decathlon]

This bug reports basically the same issue reported in bug 658015 and should be fixed by the patch that fixed that bug.

Comment 3

[Felix Möller]

In fact pasting 
[e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail] 
into the invite dialog works great!

Thanks for noting Decathlon!