Customizable Predefined Event Locations

[daveknave]

Dear Thunderbird Development Team,

Thunderbird is an integral part of my daily work, coordination with multiple teams in several research projects in parallel, and I am very content, particularly with the newer releases.

Still, I would like to propose the following feature:

Since the share of in-person meetings has increased again after COVID-19, and as I am organizing meet-ups in across several buildings and with people not familiar with the campus, I have started providing proper addresses in event invitations.

I would like to be able to store and reuse locations (a non-atomic text-storage would be sufficient), such that I do not have to type in the same address over and over again.

Functional features I would wish for:

• “Places” panel in the calendar settings, similar to the “Categories” panel for managing tags (Settings -> Calendar), to manage predefined places.
• In the Edit-Event windows, the “Location” field should work either like the “Category” field, or be equipped with auto-completion upon typing and an additional button opening some modal to select and insert a predefined place (again, plain text would be sufficient).
• Storage in the user profile; this should also be synced, once the sync feature becomes available.
• (Syncing MS Exchange room mailboxes, or selecting addresses from the address book might be useful.)

This would make life so much easier for me. I could use it for plain-text addresses, but also for URLs - e.g. of maps Locations. In that regard, this maybe related to the ideas proposed by Pierre, here https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/enhancement-suggestion-for-thunderbird-calendar-address-h....

Best, David

PS: I am using Nebula 128.5.2esr, 64-bit, just for reference.

[Jon]

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