Re: [Evolution] Addressbook: How to update a group after changing a contact?

[Dan Vrátil <dvratil redhat com>]

On Sunday 16 of September 2012 18:32:24 Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Evolution users,
>
>
> one user complained that having an email group containing several
> contacts, than the addresses are not updated when for example one
> address of a contact is updated.
>
> Example:
>
> group »friends« contains »Alice« and »Bob«. Updating the email address
> of »Bob«, the group friends still contains the old email address.
>
> 1. Is there a way to update the addresses in a group?

Unfortunately, no. Persons in groups are not linked between each other, nor 
are they linked with the original contacts from which they come.

> 2. Why should not that be done automatically?

This is a consequence of how the contact groups are stored - as a contact with 
many emails :) I think that contact groups are not even standardized in vCard 
RFC, so it would not be portable across applications (we already introduce one 
similar incompatible-thingie to support nested sub-groups).

Might be an interesting feature though, but I'm unsure how to implement it :) 
Feel free to open an enhancement request in bugzilla.


Cheers,

Dan

> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
>
> PS: This is at least present until Evolution 3.4.3 from Debian
> Sid/unstable.
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