nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts
Improve handling of multiple address books
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Description
It would be great if Contacts would have an easier way to show what is in a particular address book (or, possibly, group of books).
Right now, if a user has multiple address books, the only apparent way to show what is in a single (or multiple) address book(s) is to turn off (i.e. uncheck "enabled") ALL the "unwanted" books.
It would be fantastic if "views" for each address book (similar to the "all contacts" view) could be placed in the left pane.
Clicking on such a "view"(or multi-selecting from multiple books somehow) would then show only contacts from selected books in the middle pane/column (i.e. the contacts pane)
For my clients and me, this (current) limitation is about the only significant irritation with NextCloud, making contacts substantially less useable.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the Contacts UI's current enabled-book filtering from the left pane and contacts pane described in the issue. Compare the existing All Contacts view with the requested single- and multi-book selection behavior. Done means users can select one or more address books and see only contacts from those books.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100