GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 271618
Some fields not showing up on Contacts card
Last modified: 2013-09-10 13:49:32 UTC
Some fields don't show up on the Contacts card for some contacts in my addressbook. For example, for the following example, the Mobile Phone field does not show up (although Mobile Phone does show up for other contacts). Perhaps it is supposed to be hidden, but I can't find the UI to show/hide fields, and I can't see anything in the VCard that describes why things are hidden. All details do show up in the HTML details pane below the cards pane. VERSION:3.0 X-EVOLUTION-FILE-AS:Methvin\, Andrew FN:Andrew Methvin N:Methvin;Andrew;;; ADR;TYPE=HOME;TYPE=PREF:;[...] LABEL;TYPE=HOME;TYPE=PREF:[...] X-EVOLUTION-LAST-USE:[...] X-EVOLUTION-USE-SCORE:[...] UID:[...] URL: TITLE: ROLE: X-EVOLUTION-MANAGER: X-EVOLUTION-ASSISTANT: NICKNAME: X-EVOLUTION-SPOUSE: NOTE: X-EVOLUTION-BLOG-URL: CALURI: FBURL: X-EVOLUTION-VIDEO-URL: X-MOZILLA-HTML:FALSE EMAIL;TYPE=WORK;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=1:[...] EMAIL;TYPE=HOME;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=2:[...] EMAIL;TYPE=OTHER;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=3:[...] TEL;TYPE=CELL;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=3:(...) ...-.... END:VCARD
hmm it works fine for me. I imported another vcard with mobile phone same as in this one.
This contact has been imported and re-imported from old versions of Evolution, across many releases. Perhaps there is an internal inconsistency? Are there any indexes used for contacts, or other "tables" used to store the data?
Contact cards show only five fields at a time and that too in a order. The order is: Full name nick name Email addresses Mailing Addresses Telephone numbers Organization Organization Unit Office Title Role Manager Assistant Home Page URL WebLogUrl CalendarURI FreeBusy URL Video Conferencing Spouse Name Note Instant Messaging Suppose u have entered a nick name and 3 email addresses for a contact. Then the contact card will show full name, nick name and the 3 addresses , which makes the total five, so no other field will be displayed there. As all the details are shown in the HTML pane below there is no need to show them all in the card pane as we cant afford that much space in card pane and that is the whole puprpose of the preview pane.
It would be good if the card view had an ellipsis ("...") at the bottom if it were truncated then. There's nothing in the card view to tell the user what those rules are, or why things are being truncated. I hardly ever use the HTML view, just the card view. Normally everything in the card fits, but not always. It would also be nice if there were an option to set how many lines are shown, e.g. 2, 3, 5, 7, all. I would personally always set the setting to "all"...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220355 ***