Adding a custom field to Google Apps Contacts

[Marco Kotrotsos]

Goodafternoon- I am very sorry if this has been asked before in any other form, but I can't seem to figure it out. 

Is it possible to add a custom field to a contact- have it show up on all contacts in Google Apps? With that I mean on the Contacts page itself. 

And what is the easiest way to do this? (if at all possible) 

I see 10 different way's and I am abit lost.

Thank you very much

Kind regards,

Marco

[Alain]

Hello Marco,

You can use the gContact:userDefinedField to store custom key-value pairs. If you are using one of the GData client libraries, you should be able to find available getters and setters for this attribute.

Best,

Alain

[Marco Kotrotsos]

Alain, thanks- would these fields then be visible when viewing the contact through the normal Contacts pages? Or only available through gData?

[Satish Bellapu]

Hello Marco,

You can see the gContact:userDefinedField  in a normal contacts page and also you can get it with gData API's also.

Regards,

Satish Bellapu

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Marco Kotrotsos <mai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Alain, thanks- would these fields then be visible when viewing the contact through the normal Contacts pages? Or only available through gData?

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[Marco Kotrotsos]

That sounds great- that it's possible- Any change you can point me in the direction of a relevant code example. Not trying to take the lazy road here-  but I am having a hard time finding a good starting point with this.

Thanks

[Satish Bellapu]

Here we go with a code snippet,

<atom:entry xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' 

    xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' 

    xmlns:gContact='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008'>

<atom:category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' 

    term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact'/>

<gContact:userDefinedField key='CustomKey1' value='CustomValue1'/>

</atom:entry>

For more reference's please check in the below link,

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#Creating

Regards,

Satish bellapu

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Marco Kotrotsos <mai...@gmail.com> wrote:

That sounds great- that it's possible- Any change you can point me in the direction of a relevant code example. Not trying to take the lazy road here-  but I am having a hard time finding a good starting point with this.

Thanks

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[Marco Kotrotsos]

Great- thanks, you have been most helpful!

 

[Satish Bellapu]

Pleasure mine, hope information helps you.

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Regards,

Satish Bellapu

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Marco Kotrotsos <mai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great- thanks, you have been most helpful!

 

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