AutoContacts Group field

What comtact field does the Group field (used in filtering, and returned in %acgroups() correspond to? It does not bring back the contents of the Contact Label field.

 

I am using the Query 2.0 function of AutoContacts, and one of the fields I am telling it to return is the group. Android 8.0.0 does not have a contact field named Group, but it does have a field named Label, which serves the same purpose.

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Since my previous reply didn't go through, I will reply again. I am searching using Query 2.0, with the email address as the search criterion. I am telling Query to retrieve the Name and Group fields. Name is populated, meaning that it found the contact, but the %acgroup_label() is not populated. I am running Android 8.0.0. The contacts editing dialog has a field named Label, but not one named Group.

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Contacts Test (11)
A1: AutoContacts Query 2.0 [ Configuration:Email Addresses: support@joaoapps.com
Sort Direction: Ascending
Fields to Get: Id,Name,Email Address,Email Address Type,Group Label
Joiner: =:= Timeout (Seconds):60 Continue Task After Error:On ]
A2: Flash [ Text:%acname()|%acemail()|%acgroup_label() Long:Off ]

The name and email is fetched, but not the group.

Oh, by the way, the email address query is case-sensitive. You might want to make it ignore case, or have this as an option.

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This fetches the group ID, in the group label variable, but not the actual group label


Contacts Test (11)
A1: AutoContacts Query 2.0 [ Configuration:Names: Joaoapps
Sort Direction: Ascending
Fields to Get: Id,Name,Group Label
Joiner: =:= Timeout (Seconds):60 Continue Task After Error:On ]
A2: Flash [ Text:%acname()|%acemail()|%acgroup_label() Long:Off ]


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According to what Joao told me by email, AutoContacts does not provide a way to find out the name of the groups a contact belongs to. The %acgroups_label array returns only numeric group IDs, instead of the actual labels.

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I thought this might explain why if you put a filter on the group label nothing is returned. So I found out the group label I wanted (it was 13) and tried filtering on that. Still nothing came back. The work round I have is to get all the contact entries and loop through them picking out those with group 13. It's a shame the filter for this does not work.