Using My Contacts for managing Domain Shared Contacts

[Steve Larsen]

I wanted an easy way to manage the contacts that get sent to the domain shared contacts so I thought why not just store them in a user account with a specific label and then push to the dsc when needed. I was able to pull the gal and send to a user with the following command

gam print gal formatjson quotechar "'" | gam csv - quotechar "'" gam user steve create contacts json ~JSON contactgroup "System Group: My Contacts"

So I figured something like the following would work if I tried to take contacts labeled DomainContacts in my account and send them to the domain shared contacts. And Voila!

gam user steve print contacts contactgroup DomainContacts formatjson quotechar "'" | gam csv - quotechar "'" gam create contact json ~JSON

Getting all Contacts for st...@demo.cloudbakers.com
Got 2 Contacts...
Using 2 processes...
Domain: demo.cloudbakers.com, Contact: d6837838bc25f8d, Created
Domain: demo.cloudbakers.com, Contact: 29239aed8d6e9421, Created

My next challenge though is how to I manage updates to the contacts when I change them in my account and how do I just add new contacts. I could simply kill all the domain shared contacts and create new ones but I was hoping for something more elegant than that.

[+KimNilsson]

Just asking to make sure.

If you create a DSC, and someone adds that to their own contacts, that is no longer a DSC, is it?

So if that person adds extra phone numbers and nick names and whatnot, you briefly wiping out all DSCs will not affect users?

[Ross Scroggs]

Kim,

Domain Shared Contacts are separate from user contacts; in particular they can't contain addresses in your domain.

Ross

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[Steve Larsen]

Yes, it's just like a user adding a user in the company directory to their personal contacts. They are independent and updates to info on a user or domain shared contact remain in full control by the Admins. 

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[Kim Nilsson]

Thanks guys.