Open Bug 258298 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

default category selection when creating event/task

Categories

(Calendar :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: orion2480, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 I have found that 95% of my calendar tasks/events fall under one category. It would be nice if it were possible to specify that all new tasks/events by default will be associated with, say, "work" or "school", while still keeping the "no default" option for people don't have a dominant category. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** Bug 259244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There needs to be a way to have an unassigned (blank) category. Once a catagory is selected, you can't unselect it.
QA Contact: gurganbl → general
Blocks: 312073
Depends on: 298102
Blocks: 258949
I don't think this blocks bug 258949.
No longer blocks: 258949
Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove
Assignee: mostafah → nobody
Agreed. This small feature will help many people - I have the same problem, most of items are "ToDo" and I have always specify the category.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Also, I would prefer that there are two default categories: one for events and one for tasks. For example, my events usually use a 'Meeting' category, but my tasks usually use a different category.
The default categories should depend on each calendar/tasklist.
This is a functionality that should not be very difficult to implement: function encodeCategories(cats) { cats = cats.concat([]); cats.sort(); ==> After this sort the default category could be flipped or even easier added But many users have asked it. And I am sure that would be appreciated.
> And I am sure that would be appreciated. ++
For this bug to be fixed we need to agree on how specific the default categories are (per calendar, per item type or for the whole app). Afterwards we need a good UI suggestion on where the user should be able to set the default categories. Please also keep in mind that there are other bugs that want other default settings for the item, i.e alarms. It has been suggested that this should be fixed altogether.
Severity: normal → S3
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