Re: [Evolution] Contact List View

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

Well, here's a way to get the categories string showing up in the UI. 
It's not even remotely useful in it's current state given that the
grouping stuff doesn't allow an entry to be in more than one group, and
given that the category string isn't decomposed when forming the
groups..  But you should be able to make use of it with this change.

This file should be located in $prefix/share/evolution/etspec

--- e-addressbook-view.etspec   9 Oct 2002 23:03:04 -0000       1.1
+++ e-addressbook-view.etspec   9 Jan 2003 02:00:42 -0000
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
   <ETableColumn model_col="36" _title="Spouse"           expansion="1.0" minimum_width="75" resizable="true" 
cell="string" compare="string"/>
   <ETableColumn model_col="37" _title="Note"             expansion="1.0" minimum_width="75" resizable="true" 
cell="string" compare="string"/>
   <ETableColumn model_col="38" _title="Free-busy URL"    expansion="1.0" minimum_width="75" resizable="true" 
cell="string" compare="string"/>
+  <ETableColumn model_col="44" _title="Categories"       expansion="1.0" minimum_width="75" resizable="true" 
cell="string" compare="string"/>
   <ETableState>
     <column source="0"/>
     <column source="1"/>

Chris

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 16:09, Chris Toshok wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 06:27, guenther wrote:
> > cheers();
> >  
> > > > If the category column isn't there, select Add a Column... from the
> > > > popup (just right click on any header) and drag it into the header row,
> > > > then do the Group by this field stuff.
> > >
> > > Category is not in the list of columns available.  I'm using 1.2.1.99
> > > (CVS)
> > >
> > > If I go to define view, category is not listed there as a column either.
> >
> > True for 1.2.1, too.
> >
> > I really would love to have categories in the list view. Consider it a
> > wish. ;)
> >
> > Why isn't it implemented? Anyone knows about a good reason? (And please,
> > don't tell me "because no one coded it"...)
>
> Odd..  I remember grouping by category before - There was a bug filed
> (can't remember # offhand) about grouping being broken for categories
> because they're stored as a single comma separated string.
>
> So, the entries in the category of "Business,Competition" wouldn't show
> up in the "Business" category or the "Competition" category.
>
> *takes a look*
>
> Chris
>
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