907097 - [Contacts] Allow find and merge from settings area of contacts app

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect)

Description

[ayman maat :maat]

At the moment in the contacts app we allow connects to be merged silently upon import or actively directly from an individual contact's detail card. However it would be a practical enhancement to include a 'global' 'find and merge duplicate contacts' facility from the settings area of the contact app.

This facility has already been wireframed, but due to time constraints and complexity was shelved for v1.2 in favor of developing silent merge and active merge directly from an individual contact's detail card.

Comment 1

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

add to backlog 891754

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

This was badly categorized when this was filed.

Comment 3

[Francisco Jordano [:arcturus] [:francisco]]

Thanks Julien,

IMHO, this is a new feature, since UX created this functionality for a specific user. In terms of engineering, we have a master contact that we want to find duplicates.

Doing this for all the contacts will require new interaction.

Pinging Carrie for more info here.

Thanks

Comment 4

[Carrie Wang [New account: [e-mail]]]

This one is quite imprtant.
ni? Wilfred for considering add this to backlog.

Comment 5

[:Eli Perelman]

Hema, could you please see about prioritizing this for implementation? This is now blocking bug 995299, which will help improve the perceived performance on tarako devices as well as all devices.

Comment 6

[Hema Koka [:hema]]

David Scravaglieri is the right contact for contacts :)

Comment 7

[David Scravaglieri [:scravag]]

I strongly disagree to add a new feature as a poor workaround for lack of performances without investigating on the cause.

Comment 8

[:Eli Perelman]

David, the feature on bug 995299 doesn't necessarily need the functionality from this bug, rather UX would prefer these 2 separate changes to land together. It is possible for bug 995299 to land without this, but UX thinks the experience would be even better if it went hand in hand with this. 995299 has already has its performance improved and I have simply added an Async UI to make the experience more responsive.

Comment 9

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

I disagree with your interpretation of what Carrie said in bug 995299 comment 6. She didn't say she would like both bugs to land together. She said that when this bug will be implemented (say, in 2.0, 2.1...), the user will be able to deduplicate his contacts.

Comment 10

[:Eli Perelman]

Attachment: Screenshot of contact detail

Julien, I think that is a fair assessment. In researching this bug a little further, I believe that this bug shouldn't block nor need to land at the same time as bug 995299. We currently already have the functionality to be able to manually search for duplicate contacts available on each on contact detail screen (see screenshot attachment for visual).

It is my opinion that 995299 should be allowed to land without needing bug 907097, but still let the duplicate and merge flow happen manually as suggested by UX instead using the current functionality.

Comment 11

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on