can't get shared contacts or appointments

[DrXero]

I'm doing a SOAP call to get all contacts, and I need it to include any shared address books that the user subscribes to.

When I do GetApptSummariesRequest, it excludes items in shared address books.

Ditto for appointments on calendars.

How do retrieve a list of appointments or contacts that includes items that are shared to the user?

I've just wasted an entire morning scouring documentation, and I'm betting there's a simple answer out there...

[pshah]

Add "is:remote OR is:local" to the query string.

[tim brennan]

Did you really mean <GetApptSummariesRequest>? That doesn't return contacts....are you trying to get Calendar items, or Contacts?

[tim brennan]

For contacts, you want to do a <SearchRequest> for types="contact" with a search string "is:remote or is:local".

Unfortunately, in 4.5 for calendar items, you'll need to get the entire folder hierarchy <GetFolderRequest visible="1">... and then call <GetApptSummaries l="folder"/> for every folder that has a view="appointment". Things will get a lot better when 5.0 comes out as we've unified appointment search with contact search -- you'll be able to get them all from <SearchRequest>....but until then you'll have to do it the hard way.

[DrXero]

Thanks so much for the reply. The 'is:local OR is:remote' did the trick.

I need to get contacts and appointments in 2 separate calls, and I've got the contacts working OK now.

I can retrieve the appointments, but the results don't include <inst /> instances like I need. The documentation says that expanded instance data is included "only if calExpandInstStart and calExpandInstEnd are requested in the SearchRequest".

I'm specifying those in the SearchRequest like:
<SearchRequest types="appointment" calExpandInstStart=1234 calExpandInstEnd=1234>

Is there somewhere else I need to specify those?

[tim brennan]

Are you using the 5.0 documentation from SVN against a 4.5 server? The calExpand... APIs don't work w/ 4.5 servers, you have to use <GetAppointmentSummariesRequest>

[DrXero]

Yes -- it looks like I am looking at documentation for the next version, but using it against 4.5

So the trick for appts from shared calendars is to specify a shared folder using l="xxx" and that'll do it?

[tim brennan]

yup


btw -- a really useful trick for figuring stuff out is to look at what the web client sends/receives. Connect your web client to the server with a URL like this:

http(s)://yourserver.com/?gzip=false&mode=mjsf&debug=1

You should see a debug window pop up -- it will show you the Soap traffic to the server, and the json traffic back.

[DrXero]

Got everything working now. It will be nice when 5.0 is released.

Thanks very much for your help.