Google Contacts
What is Sheet Director?
Sheet Director is a G Suite add-on that helps to manage and control bi-directional data flow between Google Sheets and several other applications like Google Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Sheets, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Zoho etc.
It is available in the G Suite Marketplace and Chrome Web Store. Please check Installation instructions to install the add-on.
What is Google Contacts?
Google Contacts is Google's contact management tool that is available in its free email service Gmail, as a standalone service, and as a part of Google's business-oriented suite of web apps Google Apps.
Use Case(s)
> Pull all the google contacts and present it in Google Sheet
> Push all data from spreadsheet to Google Contacts.
Google Contacts
Sheet Director
Google Sheets
Setting up Google Contacts into Sheet Director
Choosing App and Service:
- Select Google Contacts from the list of applications.
- Select service as Get Contacts/Post Contacts.
- Switch on Run Automatically if the queries needs to be executed in regular intervals.
Google Contacts to Google Sheet - Query
Google Contacts Configuration:
- Select the required task from the task list.
- Select the required fields for which you need data.
- Fix the maximum result required.
- Select the destination spreadsheet to save data or you can create a new spreadsheet by clicking the add icon and save the data.
Sample Output:
The below image shows the data that is obtained from Google Contacts.
Google Sheet to Google Contacts - Post
Apply Template
- If you need a demo template sheet to be added click on Apply Template
Source Sheet
- Choose the sheet that contains post records.
- Enter the Start at cell value
(the default value is A1, if you change the value you need to refresh the header by clicking on refresh icon on side)
- Select the Status column
- If status column is not there, simply click the +button to add the status header on your sheet
- Select the Result column
- If result column is not there, simply click the +button to add the sesult header on your sheet
Mapping
- After selecting the entity it will ask for intelligent mapping
- If you need to do intelligent mapping click on yes
- Intelligent mapping will map the matching fields automatically
- You can do manual mapping by selecting Column drop down
- You can delete the field by click on delete icon on top of each filed map
- You can't delete mandatory* fields
- Click on execute will ask for confirmation
- Click save to save the service
Sample Output
It will show the counts of number of records posted successfully and failed to post
