I too would like to be notified when Spanning Syn c addresses this - I've been holding off syncing my contacts with my computed, and subsequently my phone since this feature was a bit whacky.
On Dec 18, 7:12 pm, trolley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
