Bug 278780

Summary: merge contacts is missing
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: steffen, tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ferdinand Gassauer 2011-07-29 13:18:12 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

in previous versions we had the possibility to merge contacts

this is important to be able to merge contacts created by filters (add missing contacts to address book) 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
open edit

Actual Results:  
missing entry "Merge"

Expected Results:  
Entry "Merge"

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop
Compiler: gcc
Comment 1 Steffen Michalek 2011-10-15 08:48:05 UTC 
Extremely needed!
I own an addressbook with more than thousand entries, most of them
double up to five-times (due tu import from several generations of
mobile phones), some with few or more different detail entries.

Two wishes:
First, easiest (?):  Mark two or more kontacts, choose "merge",
Comment 2 Steffen Michalek 2011-10-15 09:07:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Extremely needed!
> I own an addressbook with more than thousand entries, most of them
> double up to five-times (due tu import from several generations of
> mobile phones), some with few or more different detail entries.
> 
> Two wishes:
> First, easiest (?):  Mark two or more kontacts, choose "merge",

Sorry, wrong keys pressed .. I continue:

   then:
   - in case the entries are identical, merge silently
   - in case there are different details: show all details (with field name)
     and (pre-chosen) radiobuttons to chose, which entries are to be merged.
     (may be, the text field should be editable for manually changes)
     grafically, either the "or"-set of different entries should displayed
     or the two or more verstions side by side (with repeated details grey..) 

Second, more complex:
   - search the whole corpus for possible duplicates (narrow or wide searches
     possible)
   - for each possible duplicate/set of similar entries show both/all entries
     for the first decision to be done by the user, if they belong to the same
     person (contact) i.e. they should be merged
   - for all contacts to be merged proceed like in the "simple" case.

Thanks to all working on addressbook / PIM  ! :-)

Steffen
Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2011-10-15 10:27:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 242647 ***