Thunderbird / Lightening "convert" email does not convert emails to events AND transfer peoples names email addresses to participants tab
in the latest version of Thunderbird v68.10.0 (32-bit) on any platform that I have checked, and with the latest version of the calendar plugin Lightening v68.10.0 when you go to File --> Convert To --> Event all of the body of the email is placed in the Description field. Great. The title of the email is put into the Title field. Great. BUT where NONE of the people from the email ( and there could be 5 or 10 or 1 ) are not moved into the "Attendees" tab of the new event.
This then requires you to go to the Attendees tab, right click, and add, BY MEMORY, all of the people FROM the email that you have converted to this new event. If you can't remember them all, you have to hit Ok in the add attendee dialog box, go back to the tab where the message is, copy the people that you want one by one, go BACK to the event tab, BACK to the "attendees" tab, right click, etc., and this can ( in the case of say 5 people who the email was sent to ) take up to 15 mins or more to do. This therefore is a bug / a terrible UI/UX process and needs to be fixed as a bug ? I figured I'd post this here before I create a formal bug fix for this? I'm assuming that everyone else using Lightening is also experiencing this as well yes ?
If an email ( or an email response from someone ) needs to be converted / scheduled as a meeting, it should be a VERY streamlined process - one right click set a date and time and you are ready to go yes ? Hopefully this "bug" can be fixed very very quickly.
What's the next best steps here?
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Apparently, the feature did exist, but was removed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361658
sfhowes, thanks for the response. Considering the INCREDIBLE time effort necessary to create meetings in Lightening ( and specifically from an email of people you have been discussing things with ) how can we get this functionality back in the new version of lightening & Thunderbird ?
Let me be very specific. If a Thunderbird user ( like you or me ) gets an email from someone with say, 5 people on that email chain and a meeting is necessary, this means:
- you have to double click the message,
- keep it open in a new window so to see who that email that you want to invite,
- then click ( write ---> event ( or ) File ---> new ---> event )
- type in a title, put all the details into the body of the meeting
- go to attendees tab, right click, type in the peoples names by hand from the open email
- check carefully to make sure you got everyone and you didn't add in anyone with a similar email address
- hit send.
Even if you are the fastest typist and make NO mistakes that's 15min per meeting that you want to create because you have to deal with your contact list, trying in the right persons name / email address to send the invite to, etc., and with an email inbox jammed with piles of emails for meetings that have to be made, this is far too long a process.
Solution: right click on message ---> convert to ---> meeting ---> for everyone ( or ) add attendees and with the add attendees option, no one from the original message is automatically added to the new event.
I hope there is a way to get this functionality back, because to be honest, creating meetings and using Lightening is part of life and the process above is FAR too cumbersome to the point where Thunderbird / Lightening users are probably wasting hours where they shouldn't.
Sound possible ?
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Anything is possible, but it's a question of how many users would benefit, and how much effort it would take to implement it, considering the priority of other bugs and enhancements. Entering attendees manually should be easier if they are contacts in an address book, as address autocomplete also works in the Event window.
sfhowes, thanks for the response, luckily from bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462109 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1361658 it looks like the functionality is already there but turned off which is great, yes?
hopefully we can just get it turned back on as there is clearly a need for this from many users:
- right click on message ---> convert to ---> meeting ---> for everyone ( thus as it is now )
( or )
- right click on message ---> convert to ---> meeting ---> add attendees ( previously coded functionality
re: "Entering attendees manually should be easier if they are contacts in an address book, as address autocomplete also works in the Event window." but the point is 1) if they are not ; 2) if there are many of them 3) this is both time consuming and not how it works in all other email/calendaring apps and programs out there.
Is there any process or procedure to help with getting something like this done / escalated / validated as important enough to have happen? software developers always have lists of todo's from earth to the moon so......
silent_thunderbird tarafından tarihinde düzenlendi
I suggest you post the question in the Lightning support forum: