99936 - Import Address Books, what should address book names be?

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2001-09-14: WinMe

Overview: After importing Address Books from third party application (i.e.
Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora) what should address book names should display?

Currently, after importing an Address Book for:

1. Outlook, it displays "Contacts" and another entry "Contacts". They both have
the same address cards.

2. Outlook Express, it displays "Outlook Express Address..."

3. Eudora, it displays "Eudora Nicknames"

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 so this appears on the radar for the next release.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

reassigning to racham

Comment 3

[Ninoschka Baca]

Marking nsbeta1 because importing address books should not display the third 
party application name.

Trunk build 2002-01-07-03:WinMe
These are the names of the address books using today's build.

1. Import AB from Outlook
- Contacts
- Contacts2

2. Import AB from Outlook Express
- Outlook Express Address

3. Import AB from Eudora
- Eudora Nick Names

Expected Results: 
1. Outlook should state "Contacts"
2. Outlook Express should state "Contacts"
3. Eudora's default address book is called "Eudora Nick Names" so I'm not sure 
whether this should be changed since this is what the user would expect to see.

Comment 4

[jglick]

Outlook/Outlook Express use the term Contacts once you are in the AB window, but 
the name of the window and the menu item used to access it is called Address 
Book. Same with Eudora. Hence, I don't the terms "contacts" and "nick names" 
will help users make that connection (where the AB came from). 

I would suggest sticking with the name of the app from which the AB came, 
Outlook Address Book, Eudora AB, etc., unless there is reason we can't use those 
names? OR simply using "Imported Address Book", "Imported Address Book2" etc., 
and let users rename them.

Comment 5

[jglick]

Triage meeting. Suggested we go with "Imported Address Book". "Imported Address 
Book <n>" as nec.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

not a mac classic bug

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Isn't this just a string change somewhere? It's currently futured, but how hard
would it be to fix for SeaMonkey 1.0?

"Imported Address Book" sounds like the most reasonable option.