[Address book] There is no way to bulk import/export contacts from SD card

Bug #1442735 reported by John McAleely
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This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Wishlist
Bill Filler
Ubuntu UX
Fix Committed
Wishlist
Olga Kemmet
address-book-app (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

In ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en #20

Description
Initial condition: Trying to export/import contacts from an SD card or sim card in use

Steps: Go to Contacts app, try to import/export a bunch of contacts

Expected results: There's some mechanism in place to do a mass import/export of contacts

Actual results: there's no way of doing that, except by using a google account synchronization.

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additional info: new customers are requesting this feature

-------- UX comment ------

Desired resolution:
Once this feature is available it will sit in the app settings of the Address Book as a separate list item with a chevron on the right hand side. Import from SIM card is already available from within the settings the same way.

Tags: bq
Revision history for this message
John McAleely (john.mcaleely) wrote :

This bug was split out from bug #1437500 which requested this feature for both SIM import and SD Card (presumably vCard).

This bug is intended to be for the SD Card import. It may be less important if the SIM import (bug #1331346) is resolved.

tags: added: bq
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

The SIM import is fixed in vivid.

Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - There is no way to bulk import/export contacts from SD card
+ [Address book] There is no way to bulk import/export contacts from SD
+ card
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
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L D (leoubuntuone) wrote :

Nobody wants to spend an hour finding out how to get their contacts onto their new phone, or have to go into the terminal to do so!

Revision history for this message
Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet) wrote :

Marking as Fix Committed as UX resolution is provided in the bug description.

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Confirmed
milestone: none → backlog
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
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Gregory Opera (gregoryopera) wrote :

I had the same problem on my bq Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, running Ubuntu 15.04 (OTA-9)...
* OS build number: OTA-9
* Ubuntu image part: 20160123.1
* Ubuntu build description: Ubuntu 15.04 - armhf (20160123-115651)
* Device image part: 20160108-efc96d8
* Device build description: VEGETA01A-S23A_BQ_L100EN_2009_160123
* Customization image part: 20160111-926-36--vivid

This was using a vCard (".vcf") file of all my contacts, exported from Roundcube Webmail 1.0.6... I had the vCard file on removable storage and the only way to import my contacts was to click the vCard file in File Manager.

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