Hi Milan:
Many thanx for the suggestions.I am using GOA and contacts is set to on.
There is no "google" setting in the address book or contacts properties.I'm 
using data-
server 22.7 and evolution 22.6.
Cheers,John

On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 09:21 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 14:59 +0800, John Edward Serink wrote:
> > How do I configure it as a 'google type' verses another type?
> 
>       Hi,
> if you select that book in the Contacts view and right-click and pick
> Properties from there, it shows "Type: Google", or instead of Google it
> shows your email address, right?
> 
> I still do not know how you've configured it now. Was it through GNOME
> Online Accounts, where you picked Google account and there enabled the
> Contacts part?
> 
> Your issue would make more sense with Exchange Web Services (EWS),
> which allows two different methods of  accessing Global Address List,
> where one shows only email address (also depending on server side
> settings) and the other one shows as much detailed information as it
> can. But this is EWS, not Google.
> 
> Evolution uses libgdata to access Google address books. Google
> advertises also WebDAV (CardDAV) entry point, but Evolution cannot do
> OAuth authentication for WebDAV (as of 3.24.x, the next 3.26.x will be
> able to use OAuth also for WebDAV, most likely), thus it's not an
> option as of now.
> 
> I mean, if you truly have a Google address book, then I'm not aware of
> any Evolution-side setting which would make a difference in what
> information is shown for downloaded contacts.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
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