Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 155347
Importing vcf, doesn't know about groups in vcf
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-2 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: Back in the Evo 1.x days I used evolution and added categories for the contact manager - such as Friends, E-MAIL List, etc. Then I stopped using evolution and started using balsa due to crashes - carrying over the same vcf address book. I've started using Evo 2.2.2 which has demonstrated to me to be extremely stable in rawhide, and balsa is no longer in rawhide. So this morning I used Evolutions import feature to import the .vcf file. It worked quite well, the categories I had assigned were still there - but for addresses I had added in Balsa, I couldn't add them easily to these custom categories because they did not show up in the groups list - the import didn't make sure all groups that were in the imported vcf were known to evolution for adding contacts to those categories. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.2.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create .vcf address book containing categories not in Evolutions defaults 2. import vcf 3. see that the address book knows the category, but that category doesn't show up when you wish to add another contact to that category Actual Results: The category isn't in the selectable catagories for quick adding Expected Results: during import, any categories not know to evolution should be added to the categories that you can easily add contacts to. Additional info:
Thanks for the bug report. A quick workaround may be to use gconf-editor (or gconftool-2) to edit this GConf key: /apps/evolution/general/category_master_list At the moment, the Fedora developers don't have time to work on this particular issue. The best way to make sure your problem will get looked on is to report it to the authors of the program. Most upstream authors use a bug tracking system like bugzilla, and more people who know the code will be looking at the bug report there. The upstream bug tracking system to use is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ Please make sure the bug isn't already in the upstream bug tracker before filing it.