Is it possible to create an app that integrates Google Docs? I am looking to create something where students can login with their Google account and access Google Docs that they can edit within the application. Is it possible to embed a Google Doc within Glide? Any specific integrations you would suggest?
Yes, that’s all possible.
You don’t need anything special, just a Glide Plan that supports web embedding, which is any paid plan.
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Thank you for the prompt reply. Do you happen to know of any tutorials or documentation that would give me an example of how to set up that kind of functionality?
Here is the documentation for the web embed component:
To embed a Google Doc, create a template column that looks like the following:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/{id}/edit?usp=sharing
And replace {id} with the ID of your Google Doc.
And then use that template column as the source of a web embed component.
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Can confirm it works well.
However do you mean here an OAuth process that allows users to login with their Google account, and be able to view their list of files within the app?
Correct, there would be an OAuth process so the user can view documents that have been shared with them and can edit directly within the Glide App.
As long as they have signed into the App using Google Login with the same Gmail account, then that should work. If you want to - say, for example - show them their own GDrive in a web embed, you would probably need to save their GDrive Folder ID in their User Profile, and use that in a template column to construct the URL for the web view.