• Preparation
  • Prerequisite
  • Principles
• First method
  • Service account
  • Share file to the service account
• Second method
  • Creating a public link of the Google Drive’s file
  • publish after every update
  • Add the document in DigDas

Preparation

Prerequisite

For the first method:

• A service account to store documents and a file. Refer to p12
• Follow the instruction of the tutoriel “google_drive_config_en.pdf” to get data settings.

For the second method:

• No requisite

Principles

There are two ways to share a document from Google Drive :

1. First : You can retrieve the document by sharing it with the service account created
2. Second method : by creating a public link of the file in Google Drive and adding the link in the DigDash document server as an URL.

First method

Service account

Get the  service account ID (as email address)

Share file to the service account

Connect to the Google Drive account and share the document to the service account previously mentioned.

Second method

Creating a public link of the Google Drive’s file

From the google File : File > Publish on the web

publish after every update

Choose a format > check “publish automatically after every update” to send the updates > start the publication > Copy the generated link

Add the document in DigDas

Select the document server and add a file from the URL previously copied > Give a name to the file.