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Select Connections > Add connection.
Select Google Shared Drives as the platform on the Add connection modal.
Enter the connection information. Reference the table below for details about each field.
Test the connection to ensure DryvIQ can connect using the information entered.
You will see a "Connection test succeeded" message on the Add connection modal when DryvIQ establishes the connection. (If you don't see this message, verify the information you entered.)
Select Done.
Add connection modal - Google Shared Drives
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Field | Description | Required |
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Display as | Enter the display name for the connection. If you will be creating multiple connections, ensure the name readily identifies the connection. The name displays in the application, and you can use it to search for the connection and filter lists. The maximum length is 255 characters. | Optional |
Service Account Email | Enter the email address created during the Service Account creation process. It will resemble | Required |
Private Key | Enter the private key required to access the drive. This is the value created when creating the new private key when creating a new Service Account in the Google IAM & admin Console. It will begin with " | Required |
Subject Email | Enter the email address for the root account containing the data to be transferred. | Required |
Domain | Enter the target domain name. For example, your-domain.com. If you do not include the domain for the Subject Email, you must include the domain in this field. This domain will then be used as the domain for the account. | Optional |
Token Uri | Enter the custom authentication URI. If not supplied, the default is used - https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token. | Optional |
Preserve content type | Indicate if DryvIQ should try to preserve files in their original content type. This feature is mainly used for Google-to-Google transfers. The default value is No. This means that an upload content type is not specified. Most files will still preserve content types. However, Google native documents and Microsoft Office files will transfer as Microsoft Office files. Selecting Yes will preserve files in their original content type. Google native documents will transfer as Google native documents. Microsoft Office files will transfer as Microsoft Office files. | Optional |
Import as Google native documents | Indicate if DryvIQ should import Microsoft Office documents as Google documents. This feature is mainly used when transferring from any platform, such as Box to Google. The default value is No. This means Microsoft Office files will be preserved as their original content type. Selecting Yes will import all Microsoft Office files as Google native documents. | Optional |
Behavior when deleting files | Select the type of delete DryvIQ should perform when deleting items: Permanent or Soft. Soft delete is the default delete behavior; however, Permanent is the recommended behavior. A soft delete marks items as a deleted. You can still access them to restore or permanently delete the items. A permanent delete removes the items. This delete deletion is not reversible. | Optional |
Allow file discovery | Indicate if files with shared links should be searchable. The default value is No. This means that only users with whom the file has been shared can find and access the file. Selecting Yes sets the "People can search for this file" setting in the file link settings to TRUE. This means any files with shared links can be found and accessed by any user through the search. | |
Use domain admin access | Indicate is if you want to allow domain-level administrator access to all Google shared drives, regardless of membership. The default value is No. This means the connection can only access shared drives the administrator is a member of. Selecting Yes allows the connection to access all shared drives in the administrator's domain/enterprise. | Optional |
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Files and Folders
Below is a list of supported and unsupported features as well as additional file/folder restrictions.
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Google limits the number of items, members, and daily uploads you can have in shared drives. Refer to Google's Shared drive Drive limits documentation for more information.
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Google does not impose restrictions for on the total path length.
Segment path lengths are limited to 500 charactercharacters. Segments are delimited by a forward slash (/). For example, <max 500 characters>/<max 500 characters>.
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External/Internal file permissions can be added if they are not a part of the membership, but this must be configured in Shared Drives before it will work.
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Restricted Types
Google shared Shared Drives also has the following restrictions and limitations for content. DryvIQ will handle the content as indicated.
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Although some platforms such as Box and Dropbox support Google Documents, DryvIQ does not currently support transferring them to Google Shared Drives.
When transferring Google Docs from Google Shared Drives to another platform, DryvIQ will export the documents as Microsoft Office documents.
Google Docs convert to docx DOCX files.
Google Slides convert to pptx PPTX files.
Google Sheets convert to xlsx XLSX files.
Google Drawings converts to svg SVG files.
Google Apps Script converts to json JSON files.
Google Forms, Fusion Tables, Sites, and My Maps are not available for download in Google Shared Drives. This means DryvIQ is prevented from transferring these items. Expected The expected behavior is the item will be flagged with the error message "IO Violation and message:Downloading content is not supported for file...".
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The sample code below shows how to create a shared drives drive connection that uses impersonation. Make sure the following fields are set accordingly.
The client_email should be the Google Workspace Admin Service Account.
The subject should be the email for of the user you would like to impersonate.
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