GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 212026
Contact lists should depend on contacts not email addresses
Last modified: 2004-04-13 10:30:20 UTC
Contact lists should depend on contacts, not email addresses. That way, changing an email address for an specific contact will then change the lists that contact is included to accordingly. thanks.
I think you mean in the calendar event/task editor dialogs here, don't you? Do you mean it should just depend on the contact's name? Maybe we could fall back to that if the email address can't be found. I think that means changing the ESelectNames thing. But there is a chance of getting the wrong person, with the same name.
Well, My initial comments were for contact lists. They seem to depend on email addresses only, not contacts. So If you create a list with several of your contacts, and later change one email address of one of these contacts, the list doesn't get updated as it doesn't depend on contacts but seems to copy the email address of each contact, duplicating your addressbook which seems confusing.
A related problem: when you export a contact list, rather than getting the full contact information, it exports a VCF file containing only the emails. This is not the natural behavior --- I was quite surprised when I emailed a contact list to my wife and discovered that it didn't contain the addresses it should have.
the contact list can support either direct email addresses or links to contacts (links will update when the contact they link to changes). you have to drag the contacts into the list editor for a link to be created. enterring the email address into the field gives you a non-linked contact. you can tell which is which by looking in the list inside the contact list editor. If the address looks like: Chris Toshok <toshok@ximian.com> it's a link to a contact. if it looks like: toshok@ximian.com it's just a normal email address (that won't be updated).
Tried to verify the fixed but didn't work for me (evolution 1.0.1). Created a new list by drag and drop a few contact into the list (they show as "Name Surname <mail@ximian.com>", etc.). Close the list, open the contact to change the email address, save, open th elist again and the email of the specific contact dones't get updated.
Ah, I see what the problem is. Turns out that the contact list isn't being updated immediately when you update a card it depends on. If you Search->Clear you'll see the changed contact list.
It does not work for me :-? Even doing a Search->Clear the list doesn't get updated when I change an email address. I've even closed evolution, open it again and the list is still not updated.
could be a duplicate of #7701, not sure though...
*** bug 207701 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
marking this one as a dup of 50431, since 50431 is used for tracking and target milestone. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250431 ***