Keith, You can probably output a vCards file from Google Contacts. I built a vObject library for LiveCode in 2004, it might help you.
I made it available at http://fon.nu/vobjectlib I was going to share on RevOnline but I can't find the damn login. Be Prepared, or as we say here, Sempre Alerta andre PS: Former Sea Scout Master of the Seventh Sea Scout Group of Rio de Janeiro - Benevenuto Cellini. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Keith Clarke < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > Has anyone experimented with extracting Google Contact data from within > Livecode? > > As a weekend project, I intend to replace the sprawling spreadsheet that is > our current local Scouts' District directory with: > a) Google Contacts to manage the details of the ~150 volunteers who work > in/across 6 related Scout Group charity organisations within our District > b) (as Google Docs has no mail-merge facility) LiveCode to generate a > printable PDF directory (that gets shared as a Google Doc, back to these > volunteers). > > I've managed to squeeze the multiple roles that volunteers undertake across > organisational boundaries into Google Contacts Groups and custom fields, but > I'm wondering whether to even attempt any automation of the manual Google > Contacts CSV export step to get the data into LiveCode. > > I've not played with any of the Google APIs, so don't know how complex this > would be - or where to start, really. Is this a one-line of code HTTP(S) get > call or a library I ned to build. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. > Best, > Keith.. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
