I have 2 GMAIL accts and want only one of the contact lists and one calendar

[PAPutzback]

I think this is a common situation. A family has one calendar that shoould be shared to all members of the family and visible on all phones. Then their email should be able to be kept separate. I have figured out how to do the contacts. I have all of them at the main family gmail account and each person can create their own group and associate their contacts.

The problems with contacts is that I can set my contact list to default to - Phil's Contacts nor can I set the search to limit the resutls to my contacts even though I have gone into People and selected my group.

And even though I have gone into /menu/settings/accounts and synch and set the exchange active to point to the family calendar, contacts and email and the google option to point to gmail only I still get contacts coming thru from the google account.

Perhaps their is a better app out there or I have it configured wrong.

What I want to do is only sync the contacts, calendar and mail from the "Family" account. And then keep my google mail set to my personal account.

 

[El Blacksheep]

By using a family account, you're overcomplicating things. Give each person their own account which is used for everything. You can share calendars amongst each other.

 

[PAPutzback]

I'm ok with the calendar change but how do I setup one global list of contacts? So when I click compose message I don't get a drop down to select exchange or google contact? Which I don't get why that happens when I told it not to sync google contacts.