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Newcomer
August 3, 2023
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Cannot use contacts as attendees when scheduling a meeting?

  • August 3, 2023
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Hello! I recently began to use zoom to schedule meetings regularly, but I have noticed that when typing in the 'attendee' field to schedule a meeting, there's no option to just choose from my actual contacts list or autofill. Given how often we hold the meetings and the amount of people, it's a bit tedious to copy/paste each individual email address. 

 

Given how common a feature autofilling contacts is, how do I do this on my Zoom account?

 

I already have contacts saved in my personal contacts list, but that doesn't seem to do anything.

31 replies

Newcomer
October 7, 2023

Yes . Having the exact same issue ... the contacts do NOT seem to be integrated into  attendees

Newcomer
October 23, 2023

I'm glad I'm not the only one!!!

 

Newcomer
October 27, 2023

Agreed!

Is there no way for Zoom to allow contacts in the personal contacts group to appear in the attendees field?

Newcomer
December 11, 2023

Have to say that when I encountered this issue I thought it was me but I'm no seeing this thread and am rather shocked at what I see as such a basic function not in place. I added a few contacts to my Personal Contacts in Zoom and fully expected them to become available when I scheduled a meeting but no, nothing comes up, not even previously entered attendees in other invitations. This is such a pain. Google is simply integrated.

Newcomer
February 15, 2024

When scheduling meetings Zoom used to regularity add the contacts when I started typing their name or their email address. It suddenly stopped doing that. Even when I have been diligent to add contacts directly to my Zoom account, it no long does it and I need my phone to look up their email addresses. After I add the entire address it finally shows up. I hate typing the full address in because it's so easy to make a mistake. This is annoying and frustrating. It was a feature that I constantly used. I am unhappy.

Newcomer
April 19, 2024

Yes, this is frustrating. Within Zoom unfortunately the contacts are not automatically imported and so you have to type out the emails. There are a few solutions. You could type out the emails of the people you are scheduling meetings (granted can be cumbersome). You could use APIs to integrate your contacts and send Zoom invites to them. There are also a host of scheduling apps that can do this for. Looking through the Zoom marketplace, Salepager, is a scheduling app built from the Zoom meeting host's perspective.

Newcomer
April 12, 2024

I am  having the same problem and it doesn't look like there is a solution.  Very frustrating.  It makes creating meetings extremely cumbersome and that is a basic function of this software.  

CarlaA
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Community Manager
April 16, 2024

Hello! 

 

Are you scheduling the meeting through the Zoom app or a calendar integration? 

Newcomer
May 11, 2024

Will the AI Companion allow the meeting scheduler to connect with my contacts list? I have Zoom Workplace Pro.

 

Anne 

Newcomer
April 16, 2024

Through the zoom app

 

Newcomer
May 15, 2024

Zoom definitely needs to address the situation. It's taking far longer to schedule meetings, and I'm spending time sending multiple notices about meetings because I'm never sure that the invitation has been received!

Newcomer
July 7, 2024

I totally agree! Talk about a pain in the butt when trying to book meetings! Zoom needs to fix this asap if they don't want people to move to other platforms!

Newcomer
July 12, 2024

It is July 2024 and I’m still having this problem with not being able to auto-populate my meetings with my contacts. Does Zoom read this?  It seems so obvious that this needs to be fixed.