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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0004090SOGoWeb Address Bookpublic2017-03-29 13:43
Reporterchentao Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Platform[Server] LinuxOSDebianOS Version8 (Jessie)
Product Version3.2.7 
Summary0004090: incomplete informations after exporting contacts
Description

When exporting contacts, a lot of informations are lost. Let's say you have a contact with 4 email addresses and 2 cellphones, after exporting that contact the LDIF file contains only two email addresses (mail and mozillasecondemail), and only one cellphone.

I think there should be an "Export as vcard" menu to export a contact (or a whole addressbook) in vcard format. How hard can that be ? You already have a "View Raw Source" menu that shows the vcard's raw source, so why not add a way to export that raw source, and the raw sources of all the contacts of an addressbook ?

I finally decided to tweak the source code and to hide the "Export" menu of the contacts or addressbooks, because it wrongfully leads the users to believe they can export or backup their addressbooks that way, which is definitely untrue, the result being incomplete. Better to have no export menu at all, rather than a buggy one.

I marked that issue as "major", because IMHO a proper export functionality should be mandatory for a CardDAV server.

Steps To Reproduce

Create a contact with 4 email addresses and 2 cellphones.
Export that contact.
Check the LDIF file : it contains only two email addresses and one cellphone.

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duplicate of 0001205 new update the vcard handling to VCARD 4 spec 

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ludovic

ludovic

2017-03-29 13:43

administrator   ~0011616

I think we should just drop the export as LDIF and always export vCards.

It was done this way years ago to match the behaviour of Thunderbird, which is now not relevant.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2017-03-17 17:20 chentao New Issue
2017-03-20 10:12 Christian Mack Relationship added duplicate of 0001205
2017-03-29 13:43 ludovic Severity major => feature
2017-03-29 13:43 ludovic Note Added: 0011616