#1635 Improvements of backup/restore accounts

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: prasd....@gmail.com

Its extremely useful to have the feature described below.
Regis agrees and am opening this ticket from his suggestion.

thanks.

EXPORT/IMPORT - 2 types
Very strongly needed is capability to do the following
a) export / import : a single account or muliple accounts
        (using a list of checkboxes)
b) export / import : entire csipsimple
c) Make copy of an account : There are many settings in account
configuration
       (some a bit redundant, but I am not sure). Creating another
account should be easy
        by copying. Alternativey is to import, but during import allow
it to change the name
        of the account.
      There after the user can modify the specific settings only.

If I have two phones and want to export from one and import into
another it should work.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: r3gis...@gmail.com

I would also add that it could be interesting to exclude restore of global settings when restoring.
As side note, could also be interesting to see what can be done with issue 957 when treating this enhancement.

Another solution would be a third party application dedicated to accounts management of csipsimple in order to target advanced users that modify their accounts frequently. Since that's not the case of all mainstream users, it could be envisaged to do that as a third party application.
Decision on that will comes on how the user interface of mainstream users has to be modified to reach these enhancement. If all can be done using the new design guidelines of ICS (with multi selection of account, and action bar modification, could come on mainstream app). To be checked and ergonomically designed before implementation, I'll do some proposal here.

Summary: Improvements of backup/restore accounts
Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement Priority-Low
Status: Accepted