Adds a new contact for a resource in Google Essential Contacts
A documented Google Essential Contacts operation that changes something in your account. Describe the outcome you want in plain words — HumDay writes the program, proves it, and runs it.
What this operation does
Adds a new contact for a resource.
- POSTChanges data · projects
essentialcontacts.googleapis.com/v1/{parent}/contacts
How HumDay uses it
- You describe the outcome. Not this operation by name — what you want to happen. HumDay works out which operations it needs.
- The contract names it. Before anything is built, you see exactly which Google Essential Contacts operations the program may use, and this is one of them.
- You approve access. Because this one changes data, it cannot run until you have explicitly granted it.
Other Google Essential Contacts operations
- Updates a contact. Note: A contact's email address cannot be changedPATCH · changes data
- Deletes a contactDELETE · changes data
- Allows a contact admin to send a test message to contactPOST · changes data
- Lists all contacts for the resource that are subscribedGET · reads data
- Gets a single contactGET · reads data
- Lists the contacts that have been set on a resourceGET · reads data
Questions
- Can HumDay adds a new contact for a resource in Google Essential Contacts?
- Yes. This operation is published in Google Essential Contacts's own API description, so HumDay can use it without a hand-built connector — once you have approved it for your automation.
- Will this change my Google Essential Contacts data?
- Yes — this is a POST operation, so it changes something in Google Essential Contacts. HumDay holds anything that writes behind an approval you grant explicitly, and the contract you approve says what it may touch.
- Do I need to write code?
- No. You describe the outcome you want in plain words. HumDay agrees a contract with you, writes the program, and shows you a proof run before anything touches your Google Essential Contacts account.
Where this came from
Read from a published API description for Google Essential Contacts at essentialcontacts.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1. The description above is the provider’s own wording, not ours. Last published 2023-04-21.