Hi, We have the new Contacts manager enabled for our Google Apps Education Edition account, but from what I have read, we are not able to use the Shared Contacts API? Only Premier Edition customers?
I tried out the Python 'google-shared-contacts-client' utility, and it allows me to add contacts using the utility and I can retrieve/export them using it too, but they never show up in user's contact lists? Any plans to allow Education Edition customers to use the Shared Contacts API? Since we can't use this feature, any one have some ideas for adding a list of contacts (~1,000) to ~16,000 accounts? I have a lame script that runs right now that just attempts to add them one by one to user's contact lists, but it takes forever (1 run takes almost a week)! I realize I can probably speed it up a bit by doing the batch processing, but even then I'm guessing it'll take a couple days at least to run each time. I'm by no means a full time programmer, so currently writing a nice application to pull lists and just do updates/adds/removes for all users its not in the picture. I know we can enable contact sharing the Google Apps control panel, but we don't want the bulk of the accounts (students) to show up in everyone's contact lists; we just want all of the faculty/staff users (~1,000) to be added to all faculty/staff/student accounts. We're using Google Apps Directory Sync to create/manage accounts from our OpenLDAP server, and I've noticed in the report emails it sends, something about "shared contact changes". Is that something that is possibly coming to Google Apps Directory Sync in the future? Will it only work for Premier Edition customers? Help! Ideas? I want something reasonable to keep all of my user's contact lists accurate. What are other schools/institutions doing? Thanks in advance! --Marc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
