nextcloud / nextcloud/contacts
Contact/Address Should Be Selectable for Copy/Paste into Document
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In the contacts app of nextcloud-server, the information is laid out in 2-column tabular form. Name -> Phone -> E-mail -> Address in top down fashion. This makes it impossible to select the name, or even the complete address for transfer by copy/paste into a letter in any reasonable form without having to select each piece individually and copy/paste one piece at a time. Go try it. Try to select the Name and Address in a single select to use in another document.
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The name and address should be selectable for copy/paste in proper format chosen by the user's LOCALE so that it is easily usable. For example the US standard is:
Name
Address
City, State Zip
(optionally including company below Name)
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Ideally there would be a summary section up top that contains the concise information. Alternatively a [Copy Mailing Address] pop-up providing that information in selectable form would work as well. Just some way you have a usable Name/Address to easily copy/paste into a document.
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As it is current displayed, attempting to select the name and address just results in a complete mess. For example, see the attached screenshot with attempted selection shown:
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Research direction
Start at the contact and address display in the Contacts app and review how the current two-column layout exposes selectable text. Compare the proposed summary section or Copy Mailing Address option with the locale-specific format described in the issue. Done means the name and address can be selected and pasted as readable, locale-appropriate text.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100