multiple address book support

[lfarkas]

hi,
one of the biggest problem with the current google contacts is that it
has only one contacts (ie. folder/address book), but the other "big"
mailers (outlook, outlook express, thunderbird) has more not to
mention
sub folders in outlook. the biggest problem is that many people use
this
feature:-(
so it'd have to be some way to do the same think in gmail.
imho (since it's google) they will choose labels for contacts so one
can
add multiple labels for a given contact. and later contacts api will
follow this.
but this is just my assumption:-)
afais it takes years for google to made a public api for contacts.
probably they
will first add mailing lists and may be then more address books or
labels.
but still what we can do (those who has more address books)?
imho one good solution (until google add this feature) to use
something like
finchsync do (same problem since Pocket Outlook also has only one
adddress book).
it maps the address book name to category (more detail here
http://www.finchsync.com/docu_syncguide.html
so do you plan anything like this?
thanks in advance.
yours.

[Weezey]

Contact groups kinda work like Gmail labels do, once that's
implemented into the API, you can rock it. The hard part is getting
users out of their infernal folders. Search is where it's at.

- Ian

> it maps the address book name to category (more detail herehttp://www.finchsync.com/docu_syncguide.html

[Sebastian Adamczyk]

Hi,

Contact groups are one of the new features in google contacts API.
Please take a look at updated docs.

Regards,
Sebastian

[Kulvinder Singh]

But thats for Managing the groups only. How about the contacts in relation to a Group ?

[Jarek]

It is also there: contacts can now belong to a number of groups <gContact:groupMembershipInfo/> element can be part of contact entry.

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