Domain Shared External Contacts?

[Seth Weber]

We've been using a custom script using GAM to create shared contacts to every user's own personal contacts and labeled them, but that's caused duplicates over the years and it's a bit messy.

I was looking into Google Workspace and found that you can add contacts to the Directory instead; this would be much better, cleaner, and easier to centrally manage.

Problem is, the apps for a UI have pricing. I can do it via their API, but I was wondering if GAM already can interface with this feature?

Documentation

API

Thanks in advance! :)

[Ross Scroggs]

Seth,

See: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Domain-SharedContacts-GAL

Ross

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[Seth Weber]

Thanks, Ross, for your timely response! Just needed some help finding it in the wiki :)

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[Seth Weber]

Apologies for my ineptitude of GAM, but could you give me an example for the syntax on inputting an attribute (like the first name):

[Bassel Massamiri]

gam create contact firstname <First Name> familyname <Family Name> email work <External Email Address> primary

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[Ross Scroggs]

Seth,

gam create contact firstname Seth lastname Weber phone work 814-297-8400 primary email work s...@domain.com primary

Note, domain shared contacts can not have email addresses in your domain; they are for external contacts.

Ross

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[Seth Weber]

Gotcha! For the values, if there are spaces anywhere in the value, can I enclose it in quotations?

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[Ross Scroggs]

Yes, enclose in "

Ross

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[Seth Weber]

So, I'm going to rewrite my script so instead of deleing contacts then adding them from/to each user, I'll create domain shared contacts instead, update them from any new changes from the spreadsheet, and assign them to labels.

I'm able to create labels in each user's Contacts, but how do I go about assigning those labels to domain shared contacts? The syntax might be different...?

I tried: 

gam user test...@domain.com update contact 59bb7b938a1d5880 contactgroup "Test"

To add the domain shared contact 59bb7b938a1d5880  to  test...@domain.com's label/contactgroup named "Test", got the following error:

ERROR: Parameter "resourceName" value "59bb7b938a1d5880" does not match the pattern "^people/[^/]+$"

Once I'm able to get it working to assign labels, I'm curious as well how I'd go about assigning multiple labels to a domain shared contact.

Might be easier to explain on call if anybody's willing to help me, if not that's okay! Any push in the right direction with the syntax really helps :) thanks!

[Ross Scroggs]

Seth,

There are no labels in Domain Shared Contacts; it's one big collection of external contacts shared by everyone.

Send me a Meet/Zoom invitation.

Ross

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[Kim Nilsson]

Seth & Ross,

Don't forget that there is this nice script to manage Domain Shared Contacts, to make sure the DSCs in the domain are in sync with whatever source you have.

https://github.com/taers232c/GAM-Scripts3/blob/master/ExchangeDomainSharedContacts.py

It was created to pull users from DomainB into DomainA as DSCs, but the script really doesn't care where the users come from, as long as they are in the ./DomainBUsers.csv file.