I do not see anymore in Google Workspace interface a way to receive alerts when users are about to reach their storage limit (only end users receive alerts). is there any setting I can use to receive this alerts as an Administrator or any API that will let me do that?
I have been reviewing the documentation for alerts and also storage settings in the Admin console. It seems like as Administrator you can only see the list of users and filter out of storage users.
You can view this Help Center for reference.
Unfortunately a setting like that is not available at the moment. It would be a great idea to share the feedback for something like that in the future. If you have a Google Workspace account you should be able to request access to the feature ideas portal and send the feedback
You can give your feedback or request a feature over here:
https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Feature-Ideas/cmp-p/grouphub%3Aworkspace-ideas-group
Utilizing API or App script can help you to manually make a call and pull some of the data of the users and their storage, for example:
function getStorage() {
var about = Drive.About.get();
about.quotaBytesByService.forEach(function (s) {console.log(s)});
}
It should give you the usage of Drive Storage in all services that take space. You can also utilize the Reports API, to gather used quota in percentage of the users quota storage using the "used_quota_in_percentage" as suggested by the documentation. You can test it here
You can add the parameter from the screenshot for all users or specific users and try to filter it in case you are looking to implement it in the future:
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We have hundreds of users and we occasionally get blocked because we exceed the quota for UrlFetch. Is it possible to increase this limit? Or is there another workaround so we don't get throttled?
If I am not mistaken, it is possible, you would need to associate your script with a standard project from GCP (in case you have not done this yet). What I mean by this is that you need to create a separate project on GCP, then enable the APIs and configure the scopes and everything manually, and then associate it with your script from the script settings (see screenshot).
After all that just go to the project, then IAM & Admin >> Quotas and click "Edit quotas". This is also officially documented here and make sure that billing is enabled for the project.
What you would be doing with all this is submitting a request for the Google team in charge to review it and decide if approve it or not. It can take a couple of days for you to get a response from them.
I can't guarantee that the quota that you need to increase would be available, but at least this is how you can request any quota increase for any script you may have.
If you already have a project from GCP with the Apps Script API enabled, you can just follow the instructions to submit the request without having to follow the other steps.
So, I created an script on google sheets that, basically, selects a set of addresses on a sheet and uses Maps.newGeocoder.geocode() to get geocodes and calculate distances. It works wonderfully, no problems there. However, when I try to authenticate using Maps.setAuthentication(clientId, signingKey);, I just get an error.
I got my credentials from loging into https://console.cloud.google.com/, creating a random project and by going in "Create credentials". When I go into the credentials tab, I can select OAuth2.0 and see clientId and client secret key. I am using these to authenticate. Is it correct? What am I doing wrong? How the hell can I get the credentials? Thanks a lot!
The setAuthentication(clientId, signingKey) method enables the use of an externally established Google Maps APIs Premium Plan account, to leverage additional quota allowances. Your client ID and signing key can be obtained from the Google Enterprise Support Portal.
They are not the same as client ID and client secret key as explained here.
Note that this type of account is not longer available for new customers.
Here some helpful links:
Premium Plan Support
Premium Plan FAQ
Using the app script properties service I can allow users to store some settings information. I understand that these are stored for a given user for a given script. As the admin is there anyway for me to review all the users properties?
Also does anyone know if you are allowing the script to run as you (the publisher) does the user properties store as the user accessing the script. I know that the session data is for the actual user and not the publishing user(even when running as the publishing user).
Thanks
I'd like to suggest storing the user properties in Firebase. This will give you full access to them as needed, and they load really fast for the user. My two go to docs for this are this one to get the library and this one to as for details. If this is not possible, an alternative could be to append a row to a google sheet each time the user updates their users properties. I use both of these approaches for also tracking detailed app usages.
I'm a hobbyist student developer playing around with the Actions on Google to create a simple "text adventure" game on Google Home. Since Google Home will be speaking to the player rather than the player reading the text, I'm hoping this will create an experience similar to the "Dungeons and Dragons" roleplaying game, with the computer working as the "Dungeon Master." With the natural language assistance offered by API.AI and Actions on Google, it seemed like a good fit, since the player can respond "naturally." Here's an example of an Amazon Alexa skill that does essentially what I'm going for.
However, every time I boot up the game, it's always a new game. I'd like to store a savegame with the user's previous state in a JSON file hosted on the user's Google Drive -- Since I'm just a student doing this for fun, I don't actually have an official website or anything beyond a free Heroku server I'm running the app from, making storing saves on my end pretty much out of the question.
I've walked through the Google Drive REST quickstart for Node.js, and I've gotten that working in the console just fine. The only problem is in that quickstart, the user has to click a link to authorize the application to read the stuff in their Google Drive account, and I'm not sure how I'd be able to "click a link" and give back an access token via voice on Google Home.
Is there a way to do this via Google Drive? Or is there a better way to provide persistent data between sessions? I don't normally work in web development, so any help would be appreciated.
The bad news is you won't be able to get away from the need for a user to use his web browser to authorise your app to access his Drive.
The good news is that you only need to do this once. When your app requests authoirsation, it should specify "offline", which will result in you being given a refresh token. You should save this somewhere in your database of users. Whenever you need to access the user's Drive, you can use the saved refresh token to request an access token and you're good to go.
You have a few problems that you need to solve here, and while they seem related, they're not as related as you might hope:
You need to get authorization to access a user's Drive space
You need to authenticate the user's Home (so you know this person has come back)
You have to connect the two relationships - so you know what Drive space to use for the Home device that is talking to you
You've found the answers to (1) already, and as noted, you'll need to use a browser for them to authorize you to access their Drive. You'll then store the refresh token and will be able to access it in the future.
But that is only part of the problem. Home does not provide you access to the user's Google account directly, so you'll have to manage your own account mechanism and tie it to Home. There are a few solutions here:
Home provides anonymous user identity in the JSON sent to your webhook. You can access this using getUser().user_id if you're using the Actions API library, or access this in the data.user.user_id field in the JSON. While this is similar to a browser cookie, it only stores the user ID and can't store additional data. There is also no concept of "local storage". On the plus side, this ID is consistent across devices.
You can request user information such as their name and address. But it doesn't have anything unique or account information, so this probably isn't useful to you.
You can implement an OAuth2 server and do account linking. Note that this is the other side from what you need to do with Google Drive - you'll be providing the access and refresh tokens to authenticate and authorize access to your account and the Google Home device will send these tokens back to you so you can determine who the user is. You don't actually need to store account information - you can provide token information using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) or other methods and have them store account information in a secure way. Users will use the Google Home app to actually sign-in to your service as a one-time event.
In order to handle (3), you may be thinking that (1) lets you get tokens and the OAuth solution for (2) requires you to hand out tokens. Can the two be combined? Well... probably, but it isn't as straightforward. You can't just give the Google OAuth2 endpoints to Home - they explicitly block that and you need to control your OAuth2 endpoints. You may, however, be able to build proxy endpoints - but I haven't explored the security implications of doing so.
I think you're on the right track - using Drive is a good place to store users' information. Using Home's account linking gives you a place where they have to come to your web site to authenticate and authorize their Home, and you can use this to do the same for their Drive.
For users that are logged into multiple accounts, how can a script let the user pick an account? For example, Gmail, Google Drive, etc. provide a way for the user to select which account to use with a selectable option on the top-right of the page:
How can developers implement a similar mechanism?
There seems to be no way to do that with Google Apps Script libraries - GAS just uses the current primary account. Also, unfortunately, the API Client Library and thus Google Sign-In for websites don't work inside GAS web apps because of the sandbox frame. You could write your own or use some existing OAuth implementation to authenticate with Google but I found a much much simpler solution using Auth0 Lock with only a Google Connection (using the popup method because the redirect method doesn't work within the sandbox frame).
With Chrome Version 70.0.3538.102. You may resolve your issue (at least i did)
Now i make sure i ONLY signed in ONE account at a time. Then use "manage people"
if i have 3 google accounts, i will create 3 people and each time you only have 1 active google account session. With this setup, i ensured everytime my script only execute with my G Suite user instead of #gmail accounts
You can try using the Directory API to work with Apps Script. Retrieve the user using:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/users/userKey.
You can then make an interface that displays the user accounts details(Name, email,etc).