Is there a way to drag and drop an email into calendar & retain all of the email content?
I miss the convenient outlook feature where I could drag an email directly into my calendar. The event or task would contain everything from the email- date/ time rec'd, sender and body of the email message.
And also the reverse. Is there a way to drag an event to an email?
Also is there a way to drag calendar items to other dates? I find I can only drag week to week or whatever is in the view pane. Often I need to drag an item to months later. Thanks!
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At the moment, only webpages and local files can be attached to events:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1221659
Besides drag and drop of calendar items, copy (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) works across any time span.
By 'dragging an event to an email', do you mean the built-in ability to convert an event to a message? Or is it the 'Invite Attendees' option?
I don't use the invite attendees option. I am referring to the option in Outlook where when you receive an email, all you have to do is click on the message in your "in box" and drag it to your calendar. The entire message, subject and links is then available in your calendar. You can also do the reverse by dragging a calendar item to your email. Everything in the calendar item is contained in the email. I move stuff around on my calendar a lot. It is time consuming w/ Tbird. I find myself opening up the item and then manually changing the date. The drag function works, but I can only get it to drag within the week or month showing in the calendar view. For instance if I have my calendar open and the small calendar is in the upper left, I can't drag anything from the main calendar to another month in the small upper left calendar. Hope this makes sense. Thanks!
bubbys1 said
I don't use the invite attendees option. I am referring to the option in Outlook where when you receive an email, all you have to do is click on the message in your "in box" and drag it to your calendar. The entire message, subject and links is then available in your calendar. You can also do the reverse by dragging a calendar item to your email. Everything in the calendar item is contained in the email. I move stuff around on my calendar a lot. It is time consuming w/ Tbird. I find myself opening up the item and then manually changing the date. The drag function works, but I can only get it to drag within the week or month showing in the calendar view. For instance if I have my calendar open and the small calendar is in the upper left, I can't drag anything from the main calendar to another month in the small upper left calendar. Hope this makes sense. Thanks!
I suggest you file an enhancement bug, it sound like a good idea to me. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/' But before you do, right click an email and select convert to and then event. Perhaps you need that knowledge to file you bug, because it would be a drag and drop implementation of that conversion when dropped into say the today pane calendar.
The only deficiencies I see with the conversion is attachment are not carried over and the sender information is not included anywhere I can see.
The right clicking and converting to an event doesn't include the date of the email, who it was from etc. Plus it is a multi step process vs just dragging and dropping. I will file an enhancement bug. Thanks!
the link for enhancements doesn't work. Can you share another one, or send me in the right direction?
There is a stray trailing apostrophe on Matt's link.
IIRC, you'll need to set up an account.