nub, "(ie: in the search bar in Google Talk, type in that person's name and hit "invite".. and this only works if you are maintaining the GAL in shared contacts)"
Provisioned users (Profiles API) will show up in the Talk list. There is no maintenance or need to mess with Shared Contacts unless the contact is outside your domain. You can add contacts to a user's My Contacts (Contacts API) using 2- leg OAuth and they will also show up in the talk list. You are correct that each user will need to send invite. I use the Java APIs so am not sure what functions the other libs have. Alex, On domain groups so they show in Contacts I have been lazy and just use: http://code.google.com/p/google-shared-contacts-client/ I put the people who are in each group in the notes field. Looking up group info is definitely an area Google needs to work on. Once I get done with the current project I will look into pulling the groups and members from provisioning API and inserting them into Shared Contacts. This would run once a day and update any changes. Another tricky thing to do if you want to manage Shared contacts from a GUI is to create a Group in your Contacts and put contacts you want in Shared contacts in that group. Then run a script to ID that group and update changes to SC. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-contacts-api?hl=.
