About the Google Drive Connector
Features
The Google Drive connector provides the following features and functionality:
- Enables searching for documents stored in Google Drive shared drives.
- Uses Google Drive security to determine which documents users can access.
- All content remains in the shared drives.
- The portal has only a searchable representation of documents – pointers – users are directed back to Google Drive to launch documents found in their search result.
Security
The connector honors the security of the source system Your Source System is the repository where your data is stored (data to be indexed). This repository is managed by applications such as: - SharePoint O365 - SharePoint 2013/16/19 - Documentum - File Share - OpenText - Lotus Notes - etc. Your Source System repository can also be a database such as SQL or Oracle..
Limitations
- Google Drive default page size is 100.
- Maximum allowed size from Google Drive is 1000.
- Only metadata Provides context with details such as the source, type, owner, and relationships to other data sets. Metadata provides details around the item being crawled by Connectivity Hub. and permissions are indexed for Google Forms, content retrieval is skipped.
- Only metadata and permissions are indexed for Audio/Video files larger than 10MB
- Only metadata and permissions are indexed for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides larger than 10MB
Metadata
| Metadata property | Value Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ID | String | The ID of the file |
| Starred | Boolean | Indicates whether the file was starred by the user |
| CreatedTime | DateTime | The timestamps of when the document was created |
| OriginalFileName | String | Original file name. Only available for files with binary content |
| Parents | String | Ids of parent folders of the file |
| Size | Double | File size in bytes |
| Version | Double | File version number |
| Properties | String | Custom properties |