I have an Azure AD application that needs to read data from Excel spreadsheet in onedrive for business.
I would like to allow this application to have a read only right on this spreadsheet like a human user has when we use the share button.
I would have expected to be able to find the application like a normal user, but it is not the case.
What is the correct way to do that ?
EDIT : Adding the application Files.Read.All permission would solve the problem, but I look for a more restrictive way to do it as I just need access to one file.
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On daily basis I am getting an attachment in email. Basically that attachment is an excel spreadsheet. I am pushing that spreadsheet to google drive folder ./attachments using Microsoft Power Automate. The main purpose of pushing that spreadsheet into google drive is to load into PowerBi for Analytics purposes.
In PowerBi I am using the "Web" connector to import the file and it's working fine. The sample link is below.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1eBJR6wrcFrdjv4Lbf_Wq3MQOeUwBbgLw/export?format=xlsx
The above link exports the file into powerBi and hence I can load data into PowerBi.
The problem is, on daily basis I am getting new file in drive and the Unique Id of the file is not same. In the above example the unique Id 1eBJR6wrcFrdjv4Lbf_Wq3MQOeUwBbgLw will be different for the second file even though I am renaming the file with the same name using Microsoft Power Automate when pushing to Google Drive. eg: "PowerBi load file.xlsx". Is that possible that I can get a stable link for all the files with the same name?.
I have also shared the whole folder ./attachments and tried to get the link of the file but that doesn't work. eg:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h1VuPtXfWflgIQw7ecMTwweoLblADscq/PowerBi Analytics file.xlsx/export?format=xlsx
Any help, suggestions will be really appreciated.
Thanks everyone.
I believe your goals as follows.
You want to retrieve the file IDs from a filename.
You want to retrieve the file IDs from a shared folder.
Answer for question 1:
In order to retrieve the file IDs from a filename, I think that the method of "Files: list" of Drive API can be used.
The endpoint is as follows.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?q=name%3D%27{filename}%27
The search query is name='{filename}'.
In this case, the API key cannot be directly used because the file list tries to be retrieved from the while Google Drive including the file. In this case, the access token is required to be used.
By this, I thought that your goal 2 might be suitable.
Answer for question 2:
In order to retrieve the file IDs from a shared folder, I think that the method of "Files: list" of Drive API can be also used. In this case, at least, the file list is retrieved from the shared folder. By this, the API key can be used.
The endpoint is as follows.
GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files?q=%271h1VuPtXfWflgIQw7ecMTwweoLblADscq%27%20in%20parents&key=[YOUR_API_KEY]
The search query is '1h1VuPtXfWflgIQw7ecMTwweoLblADscq' in parents.
In this case, the file list can be retrieved using the API key because the folder is publicly shared and the file list is directly retrieved from the publicly shared.
But, in order to use this, it is required to use the API key. Please be careful this.
Other pattern:
If you want to achieve your goal without the API key and the access token, I would like to propose to use the Web Apps created by Google Apps Script as a wrapper API. When this Web Apps is used, you can achieve above both goals without using the API key and the access token.
The official document of Web Apps is here.
The unofficial document of Web Apps including several sample situations is here.
References:
Files: list
Search for files and folders
I am currently making a Google Site where I would like to embed my contacts. The contacts I am referring to can be found if I log into my gmail account and click on ->Mail->Contacts on the upper left hand corner. Then, on the next page, I click the "Other Contacts" link.
I have tried using a google spreadsheet to read in this data and then displaying that in the Google Site. However, I ran into a few issues. I tried the IMPORTHTML("https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#contacts/group/26ae/Other+Contacts","table",1). This didn't return anything. I tried to change the second parameter to 'list' and for the third parameter, I went up to 30 so I doubt that is the issue.
I also tried this approach but no luck. https://www.import.io/post/how-to-get-live-web-data-into-a-spreadsheet-without-ever-leaving-excel/
What would be the best way to resolve this issue of getting those contacts to show up in my site?
I see three options:
Export your contacts to a CSV and import that into a sheet. The downside is that this is not syncing, it is a static update, so maintaining contacts can be problematic.
Use this addon. I have never used it and can offer no advice either way. I believe your domain Admin will need to set it up and I do not think it populates a spreadsheet, so you won't be able to embed your contacts.
Write a custom Google Apps Script. The benefit here is you could use a script to also display the contacts in a clean fashion, with the name as a link, or otherwise. The downside here is you need to write a script. It is javascript based so if you have someone who can do that, it may be your best option. I have done this for a staff directory, which lists all of our domain accounts:
I'm struggling with this since a week... I have tried so many things, read so many documentations (walkthrougsh), I can't find any solutions and I have lost the clarity. I really need your help.
I have created a simple Rails app.
I have a Power BI account and a Azure account.
I'm using an example set of data on PowerBI (Retail Analysis Sample).
I want my users to signin on my app (through devise), then access to some pages and see embedded PowerBI Tiles (or report, or dashboard maybe). Then I want them to be able to filter the results. A client-side example is https://microsoft.github.io/PowerBI-JavaScript/demo/filters.html.
I want to be able to do the same.
I'm lost with all the client id, secret, ressource uri, ressource url, ...
What solution/walkthrough must I use?
Thank you so much for your time
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New tile API allows to integrate content from a user’s Power BI
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You may want to look into Power Bi Embedded here. This will allow you to control who can see what content from within your application without having to authenticate with the Power Bi service. Power Bi Embedded is an azure service that allows you to upload pbix files which are then subsequently available for view by using an "Access key" to get a token to view the report. I know it works well for displaying "Reports," I am not sure about just showing "Tiles." They recently released RLS and some new Javascript SDK for more advanced features like filtering, check that here.
Hope this helps.
I'm working on some .Net code to collect some data on a server and put it in a Google Spreadsheet. The job needs to run once a day, clear out the sheet and repopulate it. I have all that working, but I can't get the authorization right. I can do it with my personal Google credentials, and I can get it to work with OAUTH by allowing the app to manipulate all my spreadsheets using the https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds scope. But, what I really want to do is allow my script to read and write just one sheet. Is that possible, and how would I do that?
You are using very old scopes. Look at the drive.file scope
https://developers.google.com/drive/web/scopes
Its not possible using the spreadsheets API. That api is very old and doesnt have a scope for indivdual files.
it might be possible by creating a spreadsheet using the drive API by uploading a CSV with conversion, but you will need permission to create new drive files and that also means permission to the entire drive.
Workaround: Create a new google account and share the spreadsheet with it. Do the OAuth using the new account.
#Zig Mandel is right - the API (Gdata style) wants access to all spreadsheets. But you can workaround the problem using a new account.
I have a website that stores, parses and display .docx files. I want to give users a way to edit those files.
I don't want to embed a third-party widget in my website and I thought that I could use Google Drive API. My idea is that I can give user a button “Edit in Google Drive” which back to my server somehow.
The problem is that I haven't found neither API function that allows to do that nor examples of such approach.
Am I on the right way? Can my idea work? If yes, then how can I do it?
Look at the drive api. There is one to upload a new file and optionally convert it to native google format.
To upload it, read about using oauth2 to authorize storing it on the user's drive. User must have Drive of course.
After the user finishes editing, they press a button or something on your site so you use the drive api to either read the gdoc and convert yourself to docx or use the drive api to download as docx.
Both uses of drive api are explained in the docs.