Contact API does not expose "Mr" or "Company" fields

Julian

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Mar 7, 2009, 6:45:52 AM3/7/09

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I have a contact - Mr John Smith who works at BigBank - and I have all
this information in my gmail contacts.

It would appear that the following data is not exposed by the API
(a) title prefix - ie 'Mr'
(b) company

Is this correct? Is there a corresponding bug entry exposed? eg
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=502 "Contact
API does not expose "Other" fields"

JG

Julian

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Mar 31, 2009, 7:20:17 AM3/31/09

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Wow - I'm overwhelmed by the response. Subsequent posts indicate that
several people are experiencing issues with fields not exposed.

JG

On Mar 7, 10:45 pm, Julian <juliangam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a contact - Mr John Smith who works at BigBank - and I have all
> this information in my gmail contacts.
>
> It would appear that the following data is not exposed by the API
> (a) title prefix - ie 'Mr'
> (b) company
>

> Is this correct? Is there a corresponding bug entry exposed? eghttp://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=502"Contact

Julian (Google)

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Mar 31, 2009, 12:41:04 PM3/31/09

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Hi,

Unfortunately, this is still under consideration and has not been
added to the API yet.

-Julian

Michael Hawskworth

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Apr 1, 2009, 5:07:30 AM4/1/09

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I hate to sound whinging but I can't see how two critical pieces of
information for a contact can still be 'under consideration'.

I find it extremely frustrating that all fields aren't exposed for a
system that is trying to get a broad developer acceptance.

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