Is there a way to fetch the "people you frequently contact" list from the outlook contact API?
I cannot find any information in the documentation and figured I'd ask around.
There is a different REST API for people: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/api/people-rest-operations
It is still in beta, but you can try it.
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I wonder if I can get working places for all users from organization using calendar API. Coworkers from my organization uses google calendar to mark if they work from home or office. I attach screen to show what I am talking about.
I've searched many endpoints from calendar API but did not find suitable one. Is it possible to get those information from API?
It is not yet possible to retrieve those information from the API.
But Google already documented it (tutorial, API reference) and it should come at some point in the (hopefully) near future.
Here is the related issue in their tracker : https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/199918380
When use new Google People API to get a Person object, is there a relation between Person.Metadata.Sources[0].id and Person.ResouceName? like the resouceName is calculated from the Person.Metadata.Sources[0].id
The reason why I asked this is in the old Google Contacts API, we store the contact URL like https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/[email]/full/3c8fcc428ca19658 which I noticed the suffix string 3c8fcc428ca19658 is the same as the Person.Metadata.Sources[0].id in new Google People API, so we can easily know the old URL match which resouceName?
Yes, you can calculate a resourceName from a contact-ID but it's not documented and cannot be trusted to work, however a Google engineer privately guaranteed this should work in the next month.
See original answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/46355535/819355
and discussion in comments here: Is there any way to get Google People API resource ID from Google Contacts contact Id?
Is it possible to change user settings in google calendar via API? What I found on their developer web documentation suggests that no, but maybe there is something I missed.
Thanks for any answers
The Google calendar api gives you access to a users google calendars. It does not give you access to change any settings for the user on the Google calendar web application thats two different things.
You can update the calendar itself changing calendar update some of the basic information about a calendar.
Unfortunately what you want cannot be achieved.
As you clearly noticed in the Calendar API documentation, the operations accepted for Calendar settings are: get, list and watch.
What you can do instead is to file a feature on request on Google Issue Tracker here.
I am looking to develop an addin for Outlook using the Office JS API. Reading the API documentation, there are a number of references to making a call to the Outlook REST API to do various things.
As an example, I want to retrieve a list of contacts from the local machine. I have seen posts suggesting I need to make a call to the Outlook REST API, however this doesn't make sense to me. If they are local/offline contacts, why would I need to do that? I feel as though I'm missing some relationship between the two.
A screenshot for the list of contacts I want to retrieve:
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Could someone outline how they fit together (if at all)? Is it expected that if I'm going to effectively use this API, I will also need to have my data "online", such that it's available from some REST service?
As the contacts are stored locally it can not be retrieved using REST API. Getting the contacts via Office JS is not possible today. We track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. Please add your request there. Feature requests on user-voice are considered, when we go through our planning process.
Firstly, I used Microsoft Graph API /me/contacts to get all contacts, and I got 6000+ contacts' info. But when I login https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/people and visited [Your Contacts] page to compared the contact number, there are only 5000+ contacts.
Secondly, same problem in users count, I used Microsoft Graph API /users to get all users' info, and I got 5000+. But when I go to https://outlook.office.com/owa/?path=/people and visited [Directory > All Users], the number is only 4000+
I guessed outlook had filter some contacts, but I don't know the the filtering rules.
I wanted to solve this problem, but I don't know how.
So can someone tell me the filtering rules or can I use Microsoft Graph API token to fetch datas from Outlook API directly?
So can someone tell me the filtering rules or
This answer need the guy from outlook team. Ignore now.
can I use Microsoft Graph API token to fetch data from Outlook API
directly?
No. Graph API token not the same as the pure Outlook API.
For the count issue, based on your project requirement to decide which to use. In other words, you can use your own filtering rules. In my opinion, use the data have more records, and then filter.