Creation/deletion of folders

[nobody]

Currently, we can create new folders, but they become
part of the main tree as a main folder. If I have a
folder called clients, and I want to add a new client
folder under that, there is no current way of doing
that in RCW.

I would really like to see this ability.

Under the folders tab there should also be a means to
delete folders.

[nobody]

Logged In: NO 

delete ability is a trashcan next to the subscribed
checkbox.  So this is already taken care of, but the ability
to create child folders would be great :)

[nobody]

Logged In: NO 

You can create a child folder if you know the basics of how the mail is stored 
in Maildir format by the IMAP server. If you wanted to make a folder "Vendors" 
a child of the parent folder "Business" you would create a new folder named 
"Vendors.Business"

Consider this a hack/kludge though. A real interface should be designed to 
make this intuitive and transparent to the user.

[nobody]

Logged In: NO 

Opps. i mean to say "Business.Vendors" in the example below. Sorry, 
moderator please fix my goof.

[thomasb]

Depending on your IMAP server, you can create nested folders by entering the correct delimiter. This is not the best solution and we will improve the folder configuration to do that.

[seansan]

Example folder overview listing from v-webmail

[seansan]

Making a button next to the current ones with an option to create a subfolder would work (also see attachment).

The server can figure out the directory separator, send it along in a variable. The javascript after clicking on the button can then open a box (like the upload box) where a user enters the subfolder. The mother folder is captured when the button was clicked, the separator and name are joined and the sub folder is created.

[thomasb]

Related to #1326393

[robin]

Done in SVN811.

[thomasb]

There are still some errors with this. The folder names are not displayed (I just see an empty list) and there are javascript errors in my Firefox:

Error: this.env.subscriptionrows["rcmrow" + id] has no properties
Source file: http://localhost/roundcube/trunk/program/js/app.js
Line: 2506

[thomasb]

Empty folders list after updating to r814

[robin]

Thomas,

Do you by any chance have folder names with foreign characters? Your folder names are empty, which could explain the error.

[robin]

Re-fixed in [dfa1f36c].

[thomasb]

There's some more to fix until this feature is complete:

• Check droptarget (don't highlight row and don't submit request to server) when drag&drop a folder to one of it's childs.
• Remove all child rows when deleting a parent folder.
• Incorrect sorting after parent folder was renamed.
• Renaming a parent folder does not correctly alter the subscription list:
  Subfolders are still subscribed with "oldname/subfolder"

[robin]

Replying to thomasb:

• Check droptarget (don't highlight row and don't submit request to server) when drag&drop a folder to one of it's childs.

Should have been fixed in [69f17cfd]. Please test; works for me.

• Remove all child rows when deleting a parent folder.

Should have been fixed in [41841bc0]. Please test; works for me.

• Incorrect sorting after parent folder was renamed.

Todo. Sorting is still broken in most of the folder management actions. I'm working on it.

• Renaming a parent folder does not correctly alter the subscription list:
  Subfolders are still subscribed with "oldname/subfolder"

Fixed in [092bc0bc], though sorting is still broken (see above).

[robin]

• Remove all child rows when deleting a parent folder.

Should have been fixed in [41841bc0]. Please test; works for me.

Obviously it doesn't. I'm working on a fix-fix :)

[robin]

Replying to robin:

• Remove all child rows when deleting a parent folder.

Should have been fixed in [41841bc0]. Please test; works for me.

Obviously it doesn't. I'm working on a fix-fix :)

[41841bc0] was undone in [ca2b4ddf] because deleting children should be done in one sweep. That's now fixed in [97a65664].

[thomasb]

OK, we'll close this for now.