CODEWITHSUNDEEP
google-apps-scriptgoogle-contacts-api
user13708028
user13708028

Reputation: 329

Create contact with a custom field

I'm trying to create contact with a custom field, as detailed in the documentation here. So I've tried to use this code, from the documentation:

var contacts = ContactsApp.getContactsByName('John Doe');
var field = contacts[0].getCustomFields()[0];
field.setLabel('Mail application');
field.setValue('Gmail');

When I run the script I get the following error:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'setLabel' of undefined

Any thoughts?

Here's my complete code, to which I'd like to be able to add a custom field named "ID number":

var clientaddress = spreadsheet.getRange('L2').getValue();
  var clientcontact = ContactsApp.createContact(clientfirstname, clientlastname, clientemail);
    var contactgroup = spreadsheet.getRange('AL2').getValue(); // AL2 has the group name
    var group = ContactsApp.getContactGroup(contactgroup);
    clientcontact = clientcontact.addToGroup(group);
    var address = clientcontact.addAddress(ContactsApp.Field.HOME_ADDRESS,clientaddress);
    var phone = clientcontact.addPhone(ContactsApp.Field.MOBILE_PHONE, clientmobile);  
    var IDnumber = ?

Here's the code I'm trying to run as a test:

function quicktest () {
 var contacts = ContactsApp.getContactsByName('XXXX');
 var IDnumber = contacts.addCustomField("IDnumber","12345");
}

OK, so now that we know it's an array, I added the [0] to the code but still no joy.I made sure to chose a contact that has no duplicates, so I'll be sure it's editing the right contact.

function quicktest () {
 var contacts = ContactsApp.getContactsByName('XXX');
  var IDnumber = contacts[0].addCustomField("IDnumber","12345");
}

Here's the screenshot of the contact "more details" page. enter image description here

Yes, it's working now :) Thanks to everyone! Revised code:

function quicktest () {
 var contacts = ContactsApp.createContact("test1", "familytest1", "[email protected]").getId();
 ContactsApp.getContactById(contacts).addCustomField("IDnumber","12345");
}

Screenshot from Google ContactS: enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 683

Answers (1)

TheMaster
TheMaster

Reputation: 50443

field.setLabel('Mail application');

Cannot read property 'setLabel' of undefined

The error says that field is undefined and that it cannot read a property called setLabel in undefined(because undefined doesn't have such a method; only customField class does).

field is undefined, because the contact "John Doe" doesn't have a custom field associated with it.

Use Contact.addCustomField("fieldName","fieldValue") to add a custom field to a contact:

clientcontact.addCustomField("IDnumber","12345");

Upvotes: 3

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