Google Drive integration for Group work
moo00se opened this issue · 4 comments
Would this be able to be integrated with a Google Drive so multiple people could work on one file? I really dig the simplicity of this app.
Hi @moo00se nice to hear the application is of use to you.
Google Drive implementation had been on the backlog for a while, so let's treat this issue as the official "ticket" to monitor the implementation progress. Ideally, BitMappery should reuse the UI used by the Dropbox implementation, only using a different storage API under the hood.
Hi @moo00se
The latest deployed version of the application features Google Drive support. I had initially implemented it with full access (similar to the Dropbox implementation) which is fine when running in test mode, but this access scope walks the fine line between being "sensitive" and "restricted" when used in production, which requires a yearly security audit (a "service" charged at a hefty price...)
Instead I have implemented it with slackened access (known as drive.file). With this scope, you can view, read, write, delete any file and folder... as long as it was made by BitMappery. Which makes the initial connection present a rather disappointing empty "list". According to the docs, files created with the drive.file mode can be shared with others. I am not entirely sure if that means that when you share a Drive folder created by BitMappery with another user, that other user will instantly see that folder and its contents as soon as they use BitMappery to access their Drive (that wouldn't be that bad in that case...)
Perhaps you can give it a test drive and see how it works for your use case. We can perhaps iterate from there.
Hi @igorski
My apologies on the delay. Works great in my testing. I will implement somethings and deploy it to my team and give you feedback then. Thank you!
Closing this as it has been in production for a while. Any new feedback requests related to Google Drive integration may be posted in a new issue :)