Showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

RE: Showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

saifalikhan13 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:49:11 GMT

I believe, storing an a file using file upload component, and fetching all the files from the drive folder can be achieved easily using different operations of GDrive API, whats different here is that you want to bring the contents(images) to the appian interface but want it as view only. If you want any GDrive content then you have to create a batch process which will bring the contents(images) from that folder to appian interface as preview and then you will have the complete control over the interface. Later you can manage the recurcive process as per your requirements.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:15:30 GMT

OK. As you found out, this brings along some technical difficulties. I suggest to bring this up and refine that requirement.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:57:32 GMT

The requirement is like that, I have to store them in the drive.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:49:54 GMT

Why do these images need to be stored in google drive? Why do not just upload them to Appian?

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:46:33 GMT

My application is Movie Ticket Booking System

There exist two types of users

1) Users: They can book tickets by selecting a movie, theater, and show timings

2) Admins: They can add movies and posters (images).

I am using google drive as content management to store images in a movie folder.

We have to build components for end users to show the available movies to book.

in this case, the end user won't have the credentials of a google drive account. right? , then how can the user see the images in google drive as a preview in the Appian interface

### small change in use case ###

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:38:14 GMT

what if the user goes for the preview at the time of initiating the process for deletion?

then the user can't see the preview and also there is a choice of getting errors also.

we have to download the image every time the user goes for a preview. right?

Then the application will run slowly if the downloaded images increase.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:36:14 GMT

In such cases, I typically do the download in a process which deletes the file after a grace period.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:12:09 GMT

we can download the images to Appian to show as a preview. but the thing is when will you delete those?

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:39:31 GMT

[quote userid="59361" url="~/discussions/f/integrations/25623/showing-the-google-drive-file-in-appian-as-a-preview/100180#100180"]So your user needs to be logged in to Google drive to see any image.[/quote]

I think it's unreasonable to assume that this functionality would have anything to do with an end user's specific Google / Google Drive account. Clearly for this sort of thing to work the designer would need to stage artifacts in their google drive, or a special one they establish specifically for this project, then provide that those images are accessable to an Appian application. In other words, I think all comments here relating to whether the end user is logged into Google Drive are miles off-target.

But of course, OP also hasn't been very clear what the overall use case is, so who knows...

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:38:56 GMT

I understand, but this is how it works.

The alternative is, to download these files into Appian.

BTW, what is your use case?

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:28:05 GMT

But I do not want to ask the user to sign in to his google account before using the Appian application.

I don't think this is the only way to do it.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:20:59 GMT

Appian is loading that image in the browser. So your user needs to be logged in to Google drive to see any image.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:17:49 GMT

if the image in google drive is private and the drive account is already signed out, then a!webimage couldn't be able to get that image from google drive. right?

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:57:26 GMT

[quote userid="105288" url="~/discussions/f/integrations/25623/showing-the-google-drive-file-in-appian-as-a-preview/100176#100176"]i want to keep my files private[/quote]

I'm unclear why that's relevant here...

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:53:16 GMT

i want to keep my files private

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

rahata9316 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:12:01 GMT

For Startup its looks g-drive mapping is alright as you mentioned above. I guess we can have uid of image in URL and use this way to get image if I understood properly.

a!imageField(
  label: "Image",
  labelPosition: "ABOVE",
  images: {
    a!webImage(
      source:"https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9o1MNFt5ld1N3k1cm9tVnZxQjg",
    )
  },
  size: "MEDIUM",
  isThumbnail: false,
  style: "STANDARD"
)

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:41:31 GMT

LOL ... If I would have the spare time, then yes ...

Please try it yourself and share your experience here.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:32:17 GMT

Stefan, This Platform is very much familiar to you, if you try, then you can come up with a solid solution.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:18:39 GMT

I do not have any sample code or ever tried to do this kind of things.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Mohan Reddy Kethireddigari — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:10:04 GMT

Stefan, Please share the sample code with me,

and also, the thing is I just want to keep my files private.

RE: showing the google drive file in Appian as a preview

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:53:50 GMT

I think this should get you started: