And i have 10,000+ contacts and imagine the kind of frustration i get when i am unable to share the desired contacts to the executive to make them clean...
Almost two months since i reported the issues related with this, but there seem to be nothing heard or done in this regard... quite ungoogle... On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 6:36:55 AM UTC+5:30, jharan wrote: > > Unsearchable Delegated Contacts list! WTF!?! > > Unless I can search all 1000+ contacts that have been shared...what use > are they? I need to *at least* search by business...let alone last name! > > Im sure this will be resolved at some point soon, just hard to believe > Google would release the functionality without being able to actually make > use of it. :/ > > On Friday, May 4, 2012 12:32:29 AM UTC-7, Vivek Raj wrote: >> >> I don't know since when it is there, but today i saw in the Contacts of >> google apps account, there is a new option available called "*Manage >> delegation settings*". It got me excited since it enable one of the long >> sought-after features in google contacts - contacts sharing. >> >> I have got not much article regarding this new feature other than this >> small help article here : *Delegated >> Contacts<http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2590392> >> *. >> >> Though this feature look very promising and useful. However, after a >> little observation, i found the following serious shortcomings and bugs >> which i would like to report here : >> >> *1) You have to delegate (share) ALL of contacts under your My Contacts. >> **You cannot delegate contacts under groups other than My Contacts.* >> >> Currently, you can not choose to share only some contacts. Nor you can >> choose to share contacts under any groups other than My Contacts. This >> really need to be fixed. What if i want of share a particular contact or a >> particular group and not necessarily my entire My Contacts? >> >> *2) Delegated Contacts are not searchable*. >> >> Yes, you heard it right. The search giant has made the delegated contact >> unsearchable :-) May be it is a bug or maybe it is intentionally left like >> this, but this is the most disappointing and annoying thing currently for >> Delegated Contacts which makes this whole thing almost useless. I have made >> one of my employee's contacts delegated to me successfully but i cannot >> search those contacts at all :( >> >> *3) You can edit the contacts delegated to you but you can not move it >> to your My Contacts or any other contact groups.* >> >> So it makes the above 2nd issue worse. First, you cannot search the >> delegated contacts, and then you cannot even move it to any of your own >> contact group including My Contacts so that you can at least search it >> there, then what is the use of sharing then? >> >> (I could seemingly tick a contact, which is actually exclusively under a >> delegated contacts, to any of my contact groups including My Contacts >> through clicking on the Groups icon made for moving/assigning a contact in >> multiple groups, but when i click that icon again, it again shows that the >> exclusive contact is yet not assigned to the contact group i intended to; >> definitely a bug). >> >> ------- >> >> *I request Google contacts team to please look into these shortcomings / >> bugs and fix them soon.* >> >> * >> * >> *Note : *I am a Google Apps premier customer, maybe the standard app and >> normal google accounts have not got this feature (yet). >> >> Thanks for reading! >> > -- 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
