Bug 376207 - Formatted name is not selectable when creating new contact
Summary: Formatted name is not selectable when creating new contact
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kaddressbook
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.2.3
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2017-02-08 21:08 UTC by Claus Escher
Modified: 2018-11-20 08:17 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Creation dialogue for the contact name which does not show a possibility to select the formatted name (24.75 KB, image/png)
2017-02-08 21:08 UTC, Claus Escher
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Description Claus Escher 2017-02-08 21:08:53 UTC
Created attachment 103908 [details]
Creation dialogue for the contact name which does not show a possibility to select the formatted name

When entering the name of a new contact in the addressbook you cannot select how the formatted name shall look like. Hence new name appear always as <first name> <surname> in the list of contacts. However some people like myself want to sort the formatted name like this: <surname>, <first name>. 
Contacts which have been created in older versions retain their formatting and thus appear as wanted.
When exporting the contact to vCard one can notice that the tag "FN:" is missing.
Comment 1 Michal Jurzykowski 2017-09-13 20:12:43 UTC
Additionally, the missing tag "FN" causes an error during import to other systems or synchronization.
Comment 2 Gioacchino Mazzurco 2018-11-18 10:14:28 UTC
Still happens in kaddressbook 5.8.3, also the missing FN field is especially problematic as it make synchronization with other vCard compliant software (such as radicale) silently fail...
Comment 3 Jonathan Marten 2018-11-20 08:13:42 UTC
The option to select a full name appears to be presesnt in KAddressBook 5.9.40 (current Git master).  There is a combo box below the last entry field which in English says "Display" (sorry, don't know what the German eq
Comment 4 Jonathan Marten 2018-11-20 08:17:07 UTC
The option to select a full name appears to be presesnt in KAddressBook 5.9.40 (current Git master).  There is a combo box below the last entry field which in English says "Display" (sorry, I don't know what the German equivalent would be) and has options for short name, full name, reverse name with comma etc.

There are some problems with ths combo box - it does not update when the names are edited and, for an initially blank dialogue, when not dropped down it is tiny and blank - but that is a separate issue.

Suggest resolution is changed to FIXED once the correct export of FN can be verified.