Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:49:33 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635 attendance.php should have an address book icon and auto expansion During some beta testing and training modules development for a Horde rollout, there was some confusion about how to properly add attendees for checking availability. What we discovered was that users were assuming that the "Add people from my addressbook" would expand whatever was typed in the "Add attendees" field. So they'd type a first name, click on the button, and not finding the entry there, do a search. They'd find their desired user and add them, but the "Add attendees" field also contained their previous shortened name that they had typed. Then when they clicked the "Add these people" button, the real user and a bogus user would be added. What this patch does is simple. It attempts to introduce some segregation between the "Add attendees" field, where users must be entered exactly, and the "Add people from my Address Book". In the logical order of things, you would likely first add people from an addressbook, then include any manual additions, then add the list to the overall attendees list. It should help reduce confusion between what the two "Add" buttons do. One invokes the addressbook, the other invokes adding attendees to the list up top. Putting them side-by-side caused confusion with our users. Visually separating them helped our users understand how to add attendees. Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:07:10 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t6682 How about what I just committed? It spaces the buttons vertically; the addressbook button looked a little lost with your original patch. If this causes the same confusion, I'd recommend an icon for the address book like IMP has, instead of a button - that should help differentiate them. Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:37:50 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t6889 I think thats a good change. It helps reduce the ambiguity of which button to click. We're still hitting issues with using this screen, because people are assuming that it works kid of like the Mail composition screen - enter a name or a part of a name and you'll end up with the full name and address (which incidentally, would not be a bad feature to add :) Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:06:03 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t6948 Forgot to add - I think using an icon would be a good idea as well. Then you start to introduce a consistency across all your applications. They all start to behave the same way. When you get to a screen where you want to pick people, you know that if you Tab, you'll autoexpand for addresses (with the same caveat that you have to pick a unique enough portion of the name to get a single result). When you see an address book icon, you know you can do at will searches. When there are consistent ways of doing things, users tend to pick up on how to do things, better. Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:08:56 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t6949 Changing to reflect better ideas: should use an icon and match the address expansion options available in IMP (auto-expand, expand names, etc.). Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:16:24 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t7028 I'll just put in a plug that this is actually a pretty big thing. I watched a user try to add multiple attendees and she expected the field where addresses were entered to behave like IMP's address expansion and addition capabilities. Issue 1: If using the address book to look up entries, after all the entries have been selected, those entries should go directly to the attendees screen. A user should not have to select addresses, submit to populate another form field, and then submit that field to populate attendees. Issue 2: Tab auto-expansion, an Address Book icon, and an Expand Names icon provides a familiar environment for a user to find addresses. Issue 3: The "Dismiss" button is unintuitively named. Dismiss almost has a connotation of Cancel. A better setup would be to have a Cancel button and a Save Attendees button. Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:05:54 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t8867 Any update on this? Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:26:34 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t15977 Bounty added: http://horde.org/bounties/details.php#kronolith_attendee_autoexpand Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:03:09 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t27655 ContactAutoCompleter finally added. Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:07:23 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/1635#t28968