Evolution Contacts Category Mass Add/Remove

[Finog]

Binary package hint: evolution

We're hoping to use Evolution as our mail client at our non-profit and have quite a large mailing list to deal with. It would be nice to use categories as a means of simplifying the list, but, alas, Categories cannot be set/removed from contacts en masse - the user is forced to edit each contact individually. A mass-edit feature would be much appreciated.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's an upstream request to send to GNOME, how would that feature work exactly?

[Finog (finog)]

Apologies, I wasn't sure where to put this.

I imagine the right-click context menu having an Add/Remove Category button which would bring up the Categories dialog from the Add Contact menu. In Add-mode, selection of categories would add the selections to the selected contact's category listings (if not already present) whereas removal would remove the categories (if present).

[Finog (finog)]

Just wondering how I might send that upstream?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME for instructions on how to sent bugs upstream. Thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, that idea was also filed upstream at : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548610 ; feel free to subscribe to it and add your comments, thanks.

[Yuriy Voziy (yuretsz)]

This is stupid. I can't event set category to a one contact.

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2009. Version not longer supported.
Change status to Invalid (see gnome-bugs)