Keyboard completion for "Company" field in People

Bug Reports
#1

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): 100%
BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.1.0.24, 4.2.0.21
HARDWARE (XA2, X10, X10 II, …): X10 II
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): unknown

DESCRIPTION:

In the People app, previous texts I have entered in the “Company” field appear as single words in the keyboard completion for the same field. For instance, if I enter “Privateer at Jolla” as company for a contact, then when adding a new contact “Privateer at Jolla” appears as a single word among the suggestions above the keyboard.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Add a contact inserting a multi-word “Company” field, e.g., “Privateer at Jolla”.
  2. Start adding a second contact, and tap on “Company”

EXPECTED RESULT:

Nothing at all, or at most the words “Privateer”, “at”, “Jolla”, apper under suggested keyboard completions.

ACTUAL RESULT:

“Privateer at Jolla” appears as a single word in keyboard completion.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

If this is by design, it is surely weird. It is the only text box in which I could notice this behavior.

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#2

We have published the OS release 4.2.0.21 on Monday. Please update and try with that. :slight_smile:

#4

I have updated to Verla, and I confirm that the bug persists. Editing the main post to add this in.

#5

Yeap and rather easy to reproduce.

#6

My recollection is that this is intentional. Some fields in the People app use a custom auto-complete widget. The idea is that you’re likely to know multiple people from the same organisation, or with the same role, so there’s a good chance you’ll want to re-use entries multiple times.

It should apply to the Company, Job title, Department and Role fields (plus potentially a couple of others). The suggestions are field-specific, so won’t affect suggestions made elsewhere.

Although it’s intentional, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable question about whether this is the most useful behaviour.

In case it’s of interest, you can see some of the exposed logic in the /usr/lib64/qt5/qml/Sailfish/Contacts/detaileditors/CompanyEditor.qml file, line 17 onwards (the autoFillField property):

    readonly property var _fields: [
        { "type": Person.CompanyType, "propertyName": "companyName", "persistent": true, "autoFillField": ContactDetailSuggestions.OrganizationName },
        { "type": Person.TitleType, "propertyName": "title", "persistent": false, "autoFillField": ContactDetailSuggestions.OrganizationTitle },
        { "type": Person.DepartmentType, "propertyName": "department", "persistent": false, "autoFillField": ContactDetailSuggestions.OrganizationDepartment },
        { "type": Person.RoleType, "propertyName": "role", "persistent": false, "autoFillField": ContactDetailSuggestions.OrganizationRole },
    ]
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#7

It is the same with the name of event field in the calendar app, witch is useful.

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#8

Indeed intentional. Allows to pick the same company name for the next contact by one tap.