GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 515686
Group By Dates Doesn't Work in Custom Views
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:28 UTC
Please describe the problem: If you try to create a custom view in the Mailer, and you set "Group By" to date, nothing happens, nothing is grouped by date. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create custom view, name it anything 2. In Group By, select "Date" and choose either ascending or descending 3. Apply view Actual results: Nothing :) Expected results: The messages in the inbox I presume should be grouped by date. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: Spoke with srag on IRC about this issue, he said to file a bug.
Hmm it works in contact.. but in mailer it fails.
Created attachment 104953 [details] [review] proposed evo patch for evolution; This is not good answer for Matt, I guess, but the message list is ETree, which by default doesn't support grouping, thus it does "nothing". The proper state was able to see if called from popup menu under table header. For "Define View..." it required a bit more changes.
Milan, it looks fine to comment it out. But are you very sure about it? Xkahn told me that it worked for time before and got rotten on irc. He was an Evolution hacker before (iirc).
It's there since this revision: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution?view=revision&revision=11896 Thus should be fine to disable it completely. I really doubt it was working, furthermore, if you imagine the grouping on date, how it will be? One group for each separate time? What is it good for? (I'm still talking about message-list, of course).
Grouping on Date would be useful in the respects that I could group all messages by day, so that I will collapse groups as the day closes, and only have the current day's messages displayed or such. Functionality such as grouping into Yesterday, Last Week, Two Weeks Ago would be even nicer but I assume more difficult to implement :) If it can't be done it can't be done, that's OK with me.
ping srag. Or do you want to have this as a feature request? If so, then feel free to mark my patch as obsolete. I'm fine with that.
Convert to ENH.
*** Bug 524087 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
+1 from me. This is logged though against a super old version. The current scenario is that custom views does not yield the user this capability. Coming from Outlook enterprise world, this lack of capability is a big "thing I miss" while using Evolution. I've described the functionality in more detail in my mail to the list: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2018-February/msg00015.html Is it preferred to close+resubmit this to get proper traction/notice? or can we bump the version? (i.e. I'm running Evolution 3.26.1)
(In reply to Fermulator from comment #9) > Is it preferred to close+resubmit this to get proper traction/notice? or can > we bump the version? (i.e. I'm running Evolution 3.26.1) No need for either. This is an enhancement request, first filled for 2.26 and still not fixed.
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