How can I create an autocomplete list based on the user's frequently contacted list

[Shawn Drape]

In gmail when you go to add someone as a recipient of an e-mail or give them permissions to a document the user can start typing a name and get autocomplete suggestions which appear in a different order than the results from querying the full list via the API (http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide.html#retrieving_with_query). From my own experience, this autocomplete suggestion list favours the people that the user frequently contacts. I'd like to leverage this list to do autocomplete in my own applications which are tied to Google Apps through the marketplace, in order to create a more consistant experience. It isn't very nice if in most of your cloud solutions you can simply type "And" and hit enter and get the same person, but in a select few other cloud apps you have to either type the full name, or go searching through a list.

Is there any way to get access to those autocomplete suggestions? And if not, what is the best way to make that feature request to the API team?

Thanks!

[Alain Vongsouvanh]

Hello Shawn,

Unfortunately, this kind of information is not available in the current API. Please feel free to file a feature request against our external issue tracker and post it back in the forum so other might be able to "star" the issue too:

  http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/list?q=label:API-Contacts

The more stars an issue gets, the easier it is for us to prioritize.

Best,

Alain

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[Shawn Drape [DHC]]

Thanks for the suggestion. The issue can be found here: http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2975

Shawn Drape
Application Developer, Digital Innovation
Delta Hotels and Resorts