Hello, Domain admins don't have explicit write access to user's Contacts. You can however use 2-Legged OAuth to "impersonate" your domain's users and add contacts on their behalf: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/auth/oauth.html#2LeggedOAuth
Best, Alain On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing some code to create various entries in Google apps for a > number of users. I am running code under a super administrator account. > > I can successfully create appointments for other users using the following: > > ============== > var domain = "mydomain.com"; > var adminUsername = "admin"; > var adminPassword = "admin"; > var targetUser = "bob.builder@" + domain; > > var service = new CalendarService("Appointment Creator"); > service.setUserCredentials(adminUsername + "@" + domain, adminPassword); > > var postUri = new Uri("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/"; + > targetUser + "/private/full"); > > var entry = new CalendarEntry > { > Title = new AtomTextConstruct { Text = "New Appointment" }, > Location = new Where("ABC1", "ABC2", "ABC3"), > }; > > service.Insert(postUri, entry); > ============== > > Note that I've replaced my domain and log on details with dummy values! > > I have similar code to create contacts: > > ============== > var domain = "mydomain.com"; > var adminUsername = "admin"; > var adminPassword = "admin"; > var targetUser = "bob.builder@" + domain; > > var service = new ContactsService("Create Contact"); > service.setUserCredentials(adminUsername + "@" + domain, adminPassword); > > var postUri = new Uri("https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/"; + > targetUser + "/full/"); > > var newEntry = new ContactEntry(); > newEntry.Title.Text = "John Doe"; > > EMail primaryEmail = new EMail("[email protected]"); > primaryEmail.Primary = true; > primaryEmail.Rel = ContactsRelationships.IsWork; > newEntry.Emails.Add(primaryEmail); > > EMail secondaryEmail = new EMail("[email protected]"); > secondaryEmail.Rel = ContactsRelationships.IsHome; > newEntry.Emails.Add(secondaryEmail); > > PhoneNumber phoneNumber = new PhoneNumber("555-555-5555"); > phoneNumber.Primary = true; > phoneNumber.Rel = ContactsRelationships.IsMobile; > newEntry.Phonenumbers.Add(phoneNumber); > > var postalAddress = new StructuredPostalAddress(); > postalAddress.City = "Boston"; > postalAddress.Primary = true; > postalAddress.Rel = ContactsRelationships.IsHome; > newEntry.PostalAddresses.Add(postalAddress); > > newEntry.Content.Content = "Who is this guy?"; > > service.Insert(postUri, newEntry); > ============== > > This code doesn't work! Here is the error I'm getting: > > Exception: Execution of request failed: > https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/[email protected]/full > Inner Exception: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden. > > I don't understand why the appointments code works but the contacts code > doesn't. Worst still, if I replace the target user with default, the > contact code is able to save a user to the admin account with no issue. > > Has anyone seen anything like this before, and does anyone have any > solutions? Any suggestions gratefully received. > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles 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://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html > -- Alain Vongsouvanh | Developer Programs Engineer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles 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://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
