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[Feature Request] Choose to display other fields in list view #102
Description
Checklist
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Feature description
Only contact number can be displayed in list view. Allow users to choose fields that are displayed in list view.
Why do you want this feature?
As a user that uses the app without merging contacts with the same name, I want to be able to know whether I'm talking to John Smith from accounting or John Smith from HR. If there was an option for fossify to automatically highlight the differing field stored in same name contacts in the list, I wouldn't have to accidentally call the other John Smith. Alternatively I can set the field Job position field as such and make fossify highlight that in list. No more people named as "john smith accounting" in my contacts.
(PS this should ideally also be applied to incoming/outgoing calls in the phone app)
Additional information
The current behavior of the app seems to display in list view, the first number field added (could be either 'work' or 'mobile') even though these numbers are arranged mobile>work>... in the contact details, which is also kind of odd.
Activity
bbkane commentedon Jun 20, 2024
@Aga-C , this ticket still has the "triage" label. I'd like to try to implement it, but only if Fossify is likely to merge the changes. Should I just wait until someone makes time to triage and accept/reject this idea?
Aga-C commentedon Jun 20, 2024
@bbkane Yes, please wait.
mattdale77 commentedon Jul 29, 2024
I am keen for this as well. I would like to see Organization / Company Name in the list view alongside the contact name
radry commentedon Aug 6, 2025
+1
I'd like to see the company name and the Position in the list view too. Ideally in the second row.
Generally a good feature would be to have an optional "second row" and user can freely choose which Data field should be Displayed there.
Bonus feature would be to sort by company name (or by the field we choose to display in the second row) too, but that's probably another issue.
Here a mockup of what I imagine:
Cwpute commentedon Oct 16, 2026
The way i'd use it would be both for contacts within companies i work with, and for friends whom i know only by name and i have added a surname to as some kind of family name. Being able to select which fields to show would allow me to add their family name to their card, but still see their surname in the lidt view when i search for them !
EDIT: Also just donated 10$ to the org so you may want to tick that last box @N1N74 😄