We are writing a Gmail add-on for synching the user's work schedule into his/her Google calendar. This requires logging into the the employer's workforce management application and fetching data from it. Every different employer is a different customer with a different URL. So, for every customer who wants its employees to be able to use this, we have to add another URL to urlFetchWhitelist and openLinkUrlPrefixes in appsscript.json. We could potentially have hundreds of customers using it. Is there a limit to how many URLs we can put into urlFetchWhitelist and openLinkUrlPrefixes? Or is there another way to solve this?
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For several years we've had a Google Site setup on a non-profit G-Suite domain. This site is used once a year for a conference we hold with about 200 deleagates. The site is used by delegates for some simple stuff like reading documents, but there is a much more complex part of it too.
I've used Google apps script to write a system where users can do voting, speaker queueing, elections, and a daily checkin/rollcall. How it looks to users is they goto a page, and they see a "Vote Yes", "Vote No", and "Abstain" button. These are embedded Google apps script applets on the Google site page. Similar for the speaker queue and other functions.
On the backend, when a user clicks "Yes" or "No", the script submits a Google form on their behalf, with that answer. The form is tied to a Google sheet. Originally we had it directly append a line to a google sheet, but found with 200 people voting at the same time, we ran into performance issues and limitations with Google sheets.
The script then does stuff like de-deuplicate the results (incase someone voted multiple times), tabulates the results, and displays the results. This is all done on another page on the site that the officers running the conference can see.
For speaker queue, users basically click a button to say "I want to speak", and their names get added to a google sheet. The officers running the conference then call them up when it's their turn to speak. Users can also click a button to see where they are in the queue, and they'll get a response on the page like "You are currently number 3 of 27 users in the queue". They can also click a different button to remove themselves from the queue.
With that all explained, we're looking at potentially switching away from Google Sites, and considering Microsoft Sharepoint Online. The reason for this is we're using "old" Google sites, which Google has said will be shutdown at some point. "New" google sites currently does not support any scripting or API's at all, so it's impossible to redo our site in that system currently. They say API's are coming, but no details on what will and won't be available.
We have access to a free non-profits domain on Office365 (E1 tier) which gives us sharepoint online, active directory online, and $5k for free Azure credits.
So I'm asking you all here if there is some similar system available with O365/Sharepoint online. I'd want to change where all the data is stored to an SQL database, as storing stuff in sheets isn't ideal from any viewpoint, it's just the best option we had at the time. Ideally, the code for this would all live in the cloud like it does with Google. If I have to write code in Visual studio and upload it then I'm OK with that, but for maintenance purposes it would be really nice to have it all stored in the cloud and not need to install a thick app to work on it.
Basically we need the ability for users to login to a sharepoint site with their o365 account (we issue them the account), be able to interact with the site to send and receive data from SQL (which is running in Azure on same domain).
Can anyone point me in the right direction? It seems much more complex on the MS side, with way more potential methods for doing it (Graph, Sharepoint Addons, etc).
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I would like to provide a no coding solution here. If we want to code, then we can use SharePoint Add-in to do almost everything, such as collect user input and display data.
I've used Google apps script to write a system where users can do voting, speaker queueing, elections, and a daily checkin/rollcall. How it looks to users is they goto a page, and they see a "Vote Yes", "Vote No", and "Abstain" button. These are embedded Google apps script applets on the Google site page. Similar for the speaker queue and other functions.
On the backend, when a user clicks "Yes" or "No", the script submits a Google form on their behalf, with that answer. The form is tied to a Google sheet. Originally we had it directly append a line to a google sheet, but found with 200 people voting at the same time, we ran into performance issues and limitations with Google sheets.
I think we can create a Microsoft Form or Microsoft PowerApps to get user response. And then Store the data to a SharePoint list.
The script then does stuff like de-deuplicate the results (incase someone voted multiple times), tabulates the results, and displays the results. This is all done on another page on the site that the officers running the conference can see.
We can use Microsoft Flow to process the data, such as remove duplicated data. On the other hand, we can display results in PowerApps.
For speaker queue, users basically click a button to say "I want to speak", and their names get added to a google sheet. The officers running the conference then call them up when it's their turn to speak. Users can also click a button to see where they are in the queue, and they'll get a response on the page like "You are currently number 3 of 27 users in the queue". They can also click a different button to remove themselves from the queue.
We can do it in PowerApps.
I'm trying to get the Google Client Id (found under https://plus.google.com/me) of a user corresponding to the account he's currently connected with.
Explanation: when connecting with your gmail account on Chrome, the result of the code given here (https://developers.google.com/+/web/people/) gives the user's client ID that I need to use the Google Payment API.
The problem is if the user has multiple accounts connected on Chrome.
Example: Our user has an email account for work (WEmail) and a personal email account (PEmail). He first connects to chrome using his WEmail. Then adds his PEmail to the list of Chrome connected accounts. Then our user wishes to make a payment on an extension he has installed, with his PEmail.
The issue here is that to process such a payment you need the google client ID of that user, and when you fetch it, you will get the one of the first connected account (WEmail) and not the one of the current used account (PEmail). Which makes it impossible to process the payment since you might not be serving the right account.
Is there any way to get all the currently used ids of a user or jsut the currently used id?
If not, are there plans to integrate such a solution in the short term?
Thanks for your help.
I want to make sure that I understand Application-Owned Accounts correctly, because it sounds to good to be true.
I have a shop, and I want to place all my products on my application drive account.
I want to be able to dynamically perform those actions:
Add new products
Delete products
Update products
Enjoy the drive file revisions
Do I get all those for free for all my 1,000,000 users?
What is the catch?
The main drawback I think is that you cannot purchase additional space for service/application accounts. You can have the basic 15GB (at time of writing) but that this cannot be increased.
This is mentioned in the third paragraph on this page
I am using Google drive with my own user account (with expanded storage) via the API to store call recordings: I make the files available via my own website and I control the access so I could have a million users of my app, but use one Drive at the back end.
I'm building a system on Google Apps where people in a number of offices scan documents to a Google Group email. Currently, these are forwarded to me and I have a Google Apps Script running that looks at each email, copies the attachment to Drive, and adds a link to it on a Site in an structured manner, by fiscal year, office, etc. (all from the email subject line).
My Drive will eventually run out, and my organization refuses to create a separate account for technical reasons, and Groups has unlimited storage. I'm trying to figure out a way for the script to instead figure out the permalink to each message. I've seen Groups messages online that include "To view this discussion on the web visit" links, but can't find a setting to enable that. I've tried looking at the email headers, but can't see anything there either.
Does anyone know of a way to generate links to a Groups message based upon the email contents?
I am no longer working with the person who originally created my Chrome extension, and I need to manage and push updates to the extension for our current users.
Is there any way of transferring ownership? He is happy to do it, but has not been able to find a way.
You have to fill in some forms with Google.
You can find the Chrome Web Store account transfer request form here: http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/request.py?contact_type=dev_account_transfer
You may create a Google Group and use it as your publisher.
Remember that:
You can only set up group publishing once and create one group publisher account.
If you want to transfer extension to group, then:
Select "All Publishers" in the dashboard.
Under target group click "Transfer your existing item(s) to this publisher".
In practice I was able to share publishing access among group owners, not group participants, but you may experiment yourself.
Assuming that we're talking about an extension hosted on Google's extension gallery, there's no mechanism for transferring ownership available in the developer dashboard. Transfers of ownership have to be done manually by someone internally. The extension's owner will need to send an email to the "chromium-extensions" group explaining the situation, and someone from the extensions team will get back with you relatively soon to get the details.
Until there's a better mechanism for this (multiple owners, for instance), I'd suggest that you create a new Google account to share between the extension's owners, and ask for that address to be assigned ownership.