630618 - Contact import mapping from CSV is buggy and non-intuitive

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: 3.1.7+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1

- When importing, Display Name is not automatically filled, causing the user portion of the email address to be used as the name.

- When importing a csv file, the file manager dialog opens a folder instead of a file, pressing the down arrow makes the selection go up (looks and acts very buggy).

- When importing csv contacts into TB, remapping using up/down is extremely complicated and shuffles the other ones around.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools > Import
2. Select CSV File
3. Mapping tool shows up, select/align fields
4. Import
Actual Results:  
All contact names are the user portion of the email address. Example for [e-mail], bsmith is the display name used, even though "Bob" is the first name and "Smith" is the last name.

Expected Results:  
If the import tool sees a First Name and Last Name and no display name, it should offer to fill in the Display Name automatically.

Original Bug:
Binary package hint: thunderbird

When importing contacts into thunderbird's address book, if the record has a First Name and a Last Name, these do net automatically get concatenated in Display Name (something which thunderbird usually does).

Steps to reproduce:
1) Tools > Import
2) Select CSV File
3) Mapping tool shows up, select/align fields
4) Import

What happens:
All contact names are the user portion of the email address. Example for [e-mail], bsmith is the display name used, even though "Bob" is the first name and "Smith" is the last name.

Expected:
If the import tool sees a First Name and Last Name and no display name, it should offer to fill in the Display Name automatically.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 1 11:13:37 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Only one issue per bug please, and please be careful to search for duplicates first (across both Thunderbird and Mailnews Core products)

(In reply to comment #0)
> - When importing, Display Name is not automatically filled, causing the user
> portion of the email address to be used as the name.

Bug 97294

> - When importing a csv file, the file manager dialog opens a folder instead of
> a file, pressing the down arrow makes the selection go up (looks and acts very
> buggy).

I don't understand this. It sounds like either a linux specific bug or a ubuntu specific bug. After testing with a version of Thunderbird supplied by mozilla if the issue is still there, please file a new bug with clear steps to repeat, and possibly a screenshot or two.

> - When importing csv contacts into TB, remapping using up/down is extremely
> complicated and shuffles the other ones around.

Covered by Bug 95087 and others.


Resolving as invalid as we only generally deal with one issue per bug, and the ones raised are either dupes or need a clear separate issue raised.