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Google Drive

Technical documentation regarding the Google Drive integration

For Google Drive we work with a Google service account provided by uman. During the set-up process you will be given a service account email address and service account identifier.

Pre-requisites

It is required to have a Google Workspace in order for uman to be able to index content.

Scopes

Create a new Shared Drive and grant the Manager access role to the uman-provided service account. Adding the service account to the Shared Drive will grant the following permissions implicitly:

Next to adding the service account to the desired Shared Drives, you need to grant the service account the following domain-wide scopes:

For instructions on how to grant these domain-wide delegation, check the Google docs.

Setup process

Please follow the steps below:

  1. Create a new Shared Drive Go-To-Market key content

  2. Retrieve the service account email address and identifier from the uman team

  3. Grant the service account the Manager access role to the newly created Shared Drive

  4. Grant the service account the aforementioned domain-wide scopes

  5. Let the uman team know that the steps above have happened successfully and provide an email address of an administrator (at least ‘User Management Admin’ role) that uman can use to impersonate the admin scope calls

Optional: You can grant a group (containing all the users) Viewer-access to the Shared Drive, so that everyone in the organization can see the content, but not modify it.

Whitelist applications

Some Google Workspace domains restrict users from using third-party applications (like uman) using their Google accounts. If your domain restricts third-party apps, follow these steps to whitelist uman:

  1. Click on Add App followed by OAuth App Name or Client ID in the dropdown

  2. Copy the client id in the Client ID field: 387164199820-pblevae6f5u2nr71jks6bp1ffbo7cpn7.apps.googleusercontent.com

  3. Click on Search and select the uman app

  4. Click on Select followed by Select again

  5. Scope can be either everyone or specific organizational units, depending on your preference

  6. Click on continue and then select Trusted.

  7. Complete the process by clicking on Finish on the next page

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