Load contact
Load GMail contacts
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Load dedicated contacts from your GMail address book, the address book of the user running your app or any other user that has granted access to their contacts.
You can either manually select a single or multiple contacts or load a contact by a given query or ID.
If you have enabled user input you can also let the user of your app pick the contacts to be loaded
If this block is the first building block in your flow and you have configured this block to load a single contact, you then can run a batch job.
In a batch job your flow will be executed multiple times loading one contact each from your batch job.
Use cases
- Generate and send personalized emails or PDF documents to contacts from your Google address book
- Use the contact data in your mails and documents
- Print multiple address labels per page by loading multiple contacts
Configuration
Click on the bold text in the title of the building block to open the configuration dialog.
Edit
Use the edit icon to edit the template in a new browser tab.
When dragging this block into the flow you can either select an existing contact from your GMail address book or you can create a new one.
Click on the bold name(s) of the selected contact(s) to change the selected contact(s).
On the left you can find the input variables of this building block:
Use the query
input variable to find the contacts at run-time that matches your provided query string.
Advanced variables
When adding this block to the flow you will find a few selected fields of the contact that will give you simple access to the basic information.
You can access all available contact fields by using the following variables:
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Description |
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Unique ID of the contact |
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Inserts the title of the contact |
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Inserts the URL of the contact photo |
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Inserts the full name of the contact |
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Inserts the given name of the contact |
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Inserts the family name of the contact |
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Inserts the name prefix of the contact |
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Inserts the name suffix of the contact |
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Inserts the birthday the contact |
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Inserts the primary email address of the contact |
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Inserts the primary email display name |
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Inserts the primary email type of the contact |
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Inserts the primary email label of the contact |
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Inserts the email addresses of the contact |
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Inserts the email display names |
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Inserts the email types of the contact |
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Inserts the email labels of the contact |
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Inserts whether the email addresses are primary or not |
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Inserts the work phone number of the contact |
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Inserts the home email address of the contact |
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Inserts the primary phone number of the contact |
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Inserts the primary phone type of the contact |
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Inserts the primary phone label of the contact |
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Inserts the phone numbers of the contact |
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Inserts the phone types of the contact |
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Inserts the phone labels of the contact |
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Inserts whether the phone numbers are primary or not |
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Inserts the work phone number of the contact |
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Inserts the home phone number of the contact |
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Inserts the mobile phone number of the contact |
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Inserts the fax number of the contact |
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Inserts the work fax number of the contact |
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Inserts the home fax number of the contact |
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Inserts the formatted postal addresses |
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Inserts the city of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the country of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the country code of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the street of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the postcode of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the postbox of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the type of the postal addresses |
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Inserts the label of the postal addresses |
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Inserts whether the postal addresses are primary or not |
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Inserts the formatted postal primary address |
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Inserts the city of the primary address |
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Inserts the country of the primary address |
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Inserts the country code of the primary address |
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Inserts the street of the primary address |
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Inserts the postcode of the primary address |
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Inserts the postbox of the primary address |
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Inserts the type of the primary address |
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Inserts the label of the primary address |
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Inserts the formatted postal work address |
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Inserts the city of the work address |
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Inserts the country of the work address |
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Inserts the country code of the work address |
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Inserts the street of the work address |
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Inserts the postcode of the work address |
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Inserts the postbox of the work address |
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Inserts the type of the work address |
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Inserts the label of the work address |
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Inserts whether the work address is primary or not |
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Inserts the formatted postal home address |
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Inserts the city of the home address |
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Inserts the country of the home address |
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Inserts the country code of the home address |
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Inserts the street of the home address |
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Inserts the postcode of the home address |
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Inserts the postbox of the home address |
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Inserts the type of the home address |
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Inserts the label of the home address |
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Inserts whether the home address is primary or not |
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Inserts the organization titles of the contact |
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Inserts the organization departments of the contact |
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Inserts the organization names of the contact |
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Inserts the organization symbols of the contact |
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Inserts the organization job descriptions of the contact |
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Inserts the type of the organization |
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Inserts the label of the organization |
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Inserts whether the organizations are primary or not |
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Inserts the title of the primary organization |
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Inserts the department of the primary organization |
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Inserts the name of the primary organization |
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Inserts the symbol of the primary organization |
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Inserts the job description of the primary organization |
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Inserts the type of the primary organization |
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Inserts the label of the primary organization |
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Inserts the gender of the contact |
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Inserts whether the contact is male |
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Inserts whether contact is female |
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Inserts the value of the custom field |
Learn more
When printing address labels you'll have to load multiple contacts and use the repeat block to split them up in chunks matching the number of labels you want to print per page.
If you for example want to print 8 address labels per page, select at least 8 contacts to be able to test your template.
Useful combinations
Welcome email to new customers
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With the Load contact building block newly added Google contacts are loaded. Using the to HTML building block personalized sign-up offers are created by filling the loaded contact information into a html template. The execution happens in a batch jobs and performs all activities for every loaded
The offers are sent to each user's email address.
To better identify users as a new users in Google contacts the contact can (optionally) be added to a dedicated "New Customer" group using the Add to group building block.
Imprint with relevant contacts
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The imprint of your web page should list relevant contacts of your company. In order to easily load the most current information you may just load the contact information of the relevant people from your Google contacts.
Using the Load contact building block a single contact with its information is loaded. The available information is then used to generate an imprint html based on a imprint template. You can use the html information on your web-page, in this example the html page is displayed after the execution of the Ultradox flow is stopped.
Send an email with directions from customer to your business location
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For your business it may be helpful to provide customers with directions to your location. Many web pages show a business location on a Google map but individual customer will need to come up with the directions from their individual location themselves.
This example shows how a customer may enter her/his starting location in a Google from. Once submitted the business address is located from a Google Of course also for the customer an individual contact can be created allowing you to further process the customer information.
Having access the starting location (customer) and target location (your business) use the Get directions building block to compile the directions. Process the direction information in a html file with can be shown on your web page or emailed to the requesting user.
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Last Updated: 11/30/18