Hi, Sorry for the confusion around "contacts sharing". Admittedly it could be more accurately described as "users can see each other in contacts".
We've made some progress in the last year. There's a Contacts API now: http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/ With AuthSub and the Contacts API, you could write an application to read users contacts and share them with other users. Regarding email lists, they're in the same category as users and nicknames. These objects can only be created by an administrator of the domain. If you want to delegate the privilege of creating email lists to users, you could write an application that allows users to create email lists using the Provisioning API, but you would have to manage the authentication for such an application. http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_reference.html -alex On May 28, 8:48 am, BIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'contact sharing' is another one of those g-features which have little > relationship to what the real world expectation is for the feature as > it appears. > > around one year ago when the feature came out, we were thinking this > would allow all the domain users to see the other's contacts, thus > enabling users to "share contacts" within the domain. (ie, 'add to > contacts; mark as shared' ) this would have been a new feature, > something not really available easily with corporate domain solutions. > of course its not really that way, it works just like the legacy > application, but not even the other users in the domain are visible > (huh?) > > so, no "contact sharing", no "mailing list" within mail (other than a > huge CC field) - whats up? > > maybe these things got changed or updated, or hacks published, etc, > but I haven't taken the time to check on it again after posting about > it a year ago. the client that I set up on apps last year on the > premise of advanced mail & list managment and contact sharing was > pretty much non-plussed and didn't put any more effort into it when > the found out that it didn't give them anything more "collaboration" > capabilities than their own corporate/university/personal e-mail > accounts. ( granted, they came up in the generations "before > computers", but they seriously wanted a solution to these problems > which seemed obvious to them ) > > On Apr 29, 4:40 pm, "Alex (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > It's possible the domain administrator enabled contact sharing, which > > allows users to see other users within the domain in the contacts > > chooser. > > >http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60218 > > > But as a rule, the Provisioning API is only available to > > administrators. If you need access to this data, I would advise > > contacting your domain administrator. > > > -alex > > > On Apr 28, 8:33 am, severedspirit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In google calendar anyone can see all the users on the domain > > > regardless of their access group, however using retrieveallusers in > > > the api requires admin priv to get it to work, is there a way around > > > this or am i left to leave that part of the program, thanks in advanced --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
