Is it possible to export a member's join date to a google group? When you manually export a .csv from a group it gives information on the join date. However, in google app script, I don't see the option for this in the Groups Service. This is the information that is in the .csv:
Any help or resources would be appreciated!
Short answer:
No, you cannot do that programmatically.
Long answer:
Google Groups functionality is mainly handled by Directory API, in its Groups and Members resources. That's what the Apps Script Groups Service is using behind the scenes, and you could use its methods directly by enabling the Admin SDK Directory Service in your script (the APIs —and, as a result, the advanced services— usually have greater functionalities than the Apps Script built-in classes).
If you look at the properties of any of these resources (Groups and Members), you won't find anything close to a join date property, so it doesn't seem to be part of the open API, and can only be accessed through the UI.
The same can be said of Groups Settings API, which can be used to manage group settings: no join date can be found in its resources.
Because of this, you have no way to programmatically store and retrieve the group member's join dates.
Workaround (of a sort):
If you are adding members to a group programmatically, with the API method Members: insert, you could make your application store the date in which each member was added, and retrieve it later. This is not possible, though, if members are added through the UI.
Filing a Feature Request:
Since this resource does seem to exist already (it can be accessed through the UI), I'd suggest you to file a feature request in this Issue Tracker component to make this available to the API. If you do that, please make sure that you explain the usefulness of this functionality (explain how this could help you and, potentially, other users).
Reference:
Directory API: Groups
Directory API: Members
Directory API: Manage Groups
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I've been searching the docs but I can't find anything.
The goal is to retrieve different stats from our files. Actually, we can retrieve almost everything we need, except for the document openings and document openings per user.
So here is the question: How can I retrieve document views of a drive document (a G Sheet to be more precise) ? Can I segment it by user ?
Thank you
I understand that your goals are the following one:
You want to retrieve document views
Of a particular document (and you know it's id)
Associated to a specific user
Please correct me if I get it wrong. If those are your goals, then you can use the Admin SDK as pointed out by Rubén in the comments. Now I am going to detail how you can make such a request easily.
You could use the method activities.list() to get a list with what you want. You only have to populate these four parameters:
Parameter
Value
Description
userKey
The user's email
Determine the user
applicationName
drive
Identifies the Google service
eventName
view
Designate the type of activity
filters
doc_id=={MY DOCUMENT ID HERE}
Filters by the document
That configuration will provide you with your desired data. Leave a comment below if you need help creating that request in your own environment.
I would like to quickly list all Google Cloud projects in an organization, without AppScript folders.
gcloud projects list can be very slow. This documentation is about speeding it up, but does not show how to retrieve the Appscript folder which is used for filtering. Can that be done from the command line?
Also, gcloud projects list does not have a way to filter by organization. It seems that that is impossible as projects are not linked to their organization except through a tree of folders.
The documentation shows a way of walking the tree, apparently with Resource Manager API, which might do the job, but only pseudocode is shown. How can this be done with gcloud -- or else with Python or another language?
And if there is no way to accelerate this: How do I page through results using gcloud projects list? The documentation shows that page-size can be set, but does not show how to step through page by page (presumably by sending a page number with each command).
See also below for a reference to code I wrote that is the imperfect but best solution I could find.
Unfortunately there isn’t a native Apps Script resource available to work with Cloud Resource Manager API.
Although, it is possible to make a HTTP call directly to the Resource Manager API projects.list() endpoint with the help of UrlFetchApp service.
Alternatively, using Python as mentioned, the recommended Google APIs client library for python supports calls to Resource Manager API. You can find the specific projects.list() method documentation here.
On additional note, if you happen to use a Cloud project to generate credentials and authenticate the API call, you may want to enable Cloud Resource Manager API on your project by following this URL.
I’d also recommend submitting a new Feature Request using this template.
Here is some code that lists projects in an organization as quickly as possible. It is in Clojure, but it uses Java APIs and you can translate it easily.
Key steps
Query all accessible projects using CloudResourceManager projects(), using setQuery to accelerate the query by filtering out, for example, the hundreds of sys- projects often generated by AppScript. The query uses paging.
From the results
Accept those that are the child of the desired org
Reject those that are the child of another org.
For those that are the child of a folder, do this (concurrently, for speed): Use gcloud projects get-ancestors $PROJECT_ID to find the projects in your organization. (I don't see a way to do that in Java, and so I call the CLI.)
I have found lots of information on the internet about adding Members to a Group in Googlegroups, but I cant manage to get any of it to work.
I am working in Python-DJango.
Using a bussiness account, I manage to add them using Provisioning API, but I could not do it with the new Directory API.
The problem is the group I want to add people to is not a business one, it's an ordinary googlegroups one:
group_name#googlegroups.com
From what I have found, and what I did for the business group I have the following code:
groupClient = gdata.apps.groups.client.GroupsProvisioningClient(domain=domain)
groupClient.ClientLogin(email="user#gmail.com", password="xxx", source='apps')
groupClient.AddMemberToGroup("group_name#googlegroups.com", "newUser#gmail.com")
I wanted to know what I have to put in the domain field. With the business account it was the business domain, but being a normal googlegroups one I am not sure. I have tried googlegroups.com and doesn't work, as I always get a invalid domain error.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks!
The Provisioning API (deprecated) and the new Admin SDK are both designed to work with Google Apps for Business and EDU and only work against Google Groups for Business (groups with a custom #yourdomain.com address).
You cannot use these APIs with consumer Google Groups that have #googlegroups.com email addresses. For these groups, your only option is to manage membership via the web interface.
I need to get a list of all changed items in my project in BIM 360. Can I do this using forge-api.
Ho, regarding with the latest question [If my service is not available and I will miss some webhook events, how can I get all the changes that were made after the last webhook event received] :
If your requirement is to know which items are changed in one folder of Docs, Search API with filter can be of use. e.g. the endpoint below will return all items which are updated since a certain time.
https://developer.api.autodesk.com/data/v1/projects/{{project_id_with_b}}/folders/{{one_folder_id}}/search?filter[attributes.lastModifiedTime]-ge=2019-10-15
More filters options are described at
https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/data/v2/developers_guide/filtering/
While if you wanted to know all updates in one call, I do not see currently the way is available. While, Activity API is on the way, it might be helpful to know all activities during a certain dates, then you could filter out what you are interested in and locate the corresponding module>>files/resources etc.. but Activities may probably be categorized with specific scopes e.g. admin activities, project actives, issue activities etc. so it is not one call knows all updates.. And these APIs may not be exposed in the same time.
I'm facing an issue with an application I'm developing using Google Drive.
I have a Google group with some users inside, and I share a collection with this group.
When I try to find this collection using Google Drive API (files().list()), as one of the users of this group, the collection shows up properly.
However, if I add another user to the group (either using API or Google CPanel), and try to find the collection using Google Drive API as this user, the collection doesn't show up, as if the user is not able to see it even though he is in a group allowed to see the collection.
If I manually open once the collection through my browser, then the collection is showing through Drive API.
Is this a normal behaviour ? In my use case I cannot expect from the users to open in their browser each and every collection shared with them in order for the application to work.
Any insight?
I opened a Google Support case about this and apparently this behavior is "expected". Here are some excerpts from my exchange with "Angel" from
Google Enterprise Support (typos corrected and emphasis mine):
After reviewing the stackoverflow question, we need to clarify to you that the behavior shown is expected. When adding a user to a group, this group must be added again for any files that it has been shared with.
and
All information previously provided is from internal documentation for Drive UI; however the functionality is the same for SDK, therefore, group must be deleted and added back to the list of users that have access to files/folders after adding a new member.
So, there you have it. Not sure if #Burcu will ever come back and confirm.
<EDIT> It gets worse. According to this Google document, groups with more than 200 members will never see files shared with them, even if you delete and add the group back. </EDIT>
Useless post-answer rant follows:
This behavior, even if it is "expected" by Google, does not seem to be properly documented, and it is neither expected nor usable by clients of the service. How are we supposed to know when a user has been added to a group that has items shared with it? Are we supposed to constantly monitor group memberships as well as maintain a list of all things shared with the group and then *re*share them with the group when the membership changes, just to get consistent behavior? It makes me wonder why Google doesn't already do this on the back end; it can't be that expensive to register a list of callbacks with a group that are triggered upon membership changes. And the requirement that we actually unshare is even more bizarre, since it necessitates a short period of time during which nobody in the group can access the resource.