Use "Nickname" field for email autocomplete

[rcubetrac]

Reported by dmandell on 3 Oct 2011 17:09 UTC as Trac ticket #1488114

The "Nickname" field in the address book doesn't do anything right now, I assume that it's supposed to be usable for email address autocomplete when composing an email.

To reproduce:

Add a nickname to one of your address book contacts, save. Compose a new email. Type the nickname for your contact, note that autocomplete doesn't do anything.

Migrated-From: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1488114

[rcubetrac]

Milestone changed by @alecpl on 10 Nov 2011 12:09 UTC

0.7-beta => later

[rcubetrac]

Comment by Seanster on 20 Nov 2011 17:06 UTC

This will add the nickname field to autocomplete:

/program/steps/mail/autocomplete.inc line 65

change:

if ($result = $abook->search(array('email','name'), $search, $mode, true, true, 'email')) {

to:

if ($result = $abook->search(array('email','name','nickname'), $search, $mode, true, true, 'email')) {

This only changes the search, it doesn't cause the nickname to be shown anywhere it didn't before.

The attached patch file adds this autocomplete ability and also adds an extra column in the address book list to show the nicknames, if any.

rcube.svn2011-11-18.nickname.patch

I also have a similar patch for the compose_addressbook plugin (but only for "full" book mode).

It's available here:

http://www.seanster.com/rcube/

[rcubetrac]

Comment by kgc on 17 Apr 2013 17:59 UTC

This issue has come up for us too. Any reason why this patch hasn't been included? Would the devs like to see additional functionality added before committing it?

[jeffersonurban]

/program/steps/mail/autocomplete.inc line 79

change: ` if (empty($email) || strpos($email, $search_lc) === false) { continue; }

$name = rcube_addressbook::compose_list_name($sql_arr); $contact = format_email_recipient($email, $name);

// skip entries that don't match if ($email_cnt > 1 && strpos(mb_strtolower($contact), $search_lc) === false) { continue; } `

to

$name = rcube_addressbook::compose_list_name($sql_arr); $contact = format_email_recipient($email, $name);

Works fine.

[emtiu]

Sorry for necrobumping, but I've also just been bitten by this issue, and I'd like to encourage merging the fix that's been proposed.

[alecpl]

We have contactlist_fields option now which contains fields used for autocompletion, so we could add 'nickname' there, but it's not as simple as that. Either we'd need to add a new 'nickname' column to contacts table or do non-trivial changes to rcube_contacts::search() to make it working.

[rdacn]

We can change the contactlist_fields option adding 'words' (actually 'words' because 'words' throws an error), or 'vcard', but I don't know the impact of this (particularly in terms of performance). Anyway, it works in a test environment : if I add a custom field like 'Organization', it is added to the 'vcard' and 'words' fields of the contacts table, and if I add 'words' or 'vcard' to contactlist_fields, it is searchable.

Overall, it's true that it would be good to have more searchable fields in the contact list, or at least a kind of 'custom' or 'joker' field that every user could use for its own purpose, to filter or sort results better when selecting recipients