This has finally been addressed by Google. When can we expect Spanning Sync to be updated to use the new API so we can avoid Suggested Contacts? Is there an official channel for submitting feature requests? Thanks!
On Oct 21, 8:45 pm, cwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, no. This change apparently only affects howcontacts > get added to the MyContactsorSuggestedContactspseudo-groups. TheContactsAPI > still provides no way to distinguish between MyContacts > andSuggestedContacts. > > You can see the bug report against this problem, plus some discussion > between API consumers like us and the Google API team here: > > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=677 > > Trevor Johns at Google most recently said: > > > That announcement was regarding promotion ofcontactsfrom "Suggested > >Contacts" to "MyContacts". However, theContactsData API still doesn't allow > > you to distinguish whether a contact issuggestedor not. > > So we'll have to keep waiting for that feature to be added. If you'd > like to see it, please "star" the issue in Google's bug database: > > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=677 > > Thanks, > Charlie > > On Oct 21, 5:01 pm, Carlos <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/more-changes-to-gmail-contact-m... > > > In this post, from Oct 21, Google states: > > "As part of this change, we're moving previously auto-addedcontacts > > back intoSuggestedContacts. Onlycontactsthat you've edited, > > imported or added to a group will remain in MyContacts. This will > > provide everyone with a clean slate and, we hope, a better point for > > syncingcontactswith mobile devices (for example with Android). We'll > > be rolling this change out to everyone over the next few days." > > > So, does this mean that SpanningSync will now be able to properly > > filtersuggestedcontactswith the API? Hope so. > > > Cheers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Spanning Sync" 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/spanningsync?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
