Publishing to Google (Cloud)

[Greig_at_Lands]

Hi,

My department have moved over to Google Enterprise which allows for the development of simple websites and the use of Google Drive. Does anyone know of a way to publish to Google that keeps all of the files related to each other?

Thanks,

Greig

[Peter Grainge]

Are you wanting to publish to Google Drive or run your projects from Google Drive?

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[Greig_at_Lands]

I wanted to put this out there to gather ideas and experience. I am happy to publish and share via Google Drive but would rather put the files directly onto a Google site. The only way I can see to make it work on Google Drive is to Publish the folder by making it public (see Publish Website Content - Google Drive Web APIs — Google Developers). My files are for internal use only so cannot be made public. I can't see any way of making it work via Google Sites or Google Drive if I am trying to keep the files for a selected audience only.

[Peter Grainge]

I'm a Dropbox user rather than Google and there I can give access to specific individuals if I want to. Can you not do that with Google Drive?

I am taking it when you say "files" you are only meaning the published output rather than the Rh source files.

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[Willam_van_Weelden]

If you are using Google apps for business, you can also share a folder with only people within your organisation. That may be what you're looking for.

Kind regards,

Willam

[Greig_at_Lands]

Thanks for the suggestion William.

Unfortunately Google Drive doesn't work like that. The file is not published so if I shared with you and gave you the URL of the launch file for the RoboHelp compilation, .E.G., "index.html" you will see the actual file HTML rather than a web page.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

If I share a file/folder and I click 'Advanced', I can choose between:

The 'Specific people' option requires people to log in (using Google account) and only they can view. Even if I give the link to someone else.

Kind regards,

Willam

[Greig_at_Lands]

Hi Peter.

Yes, you are correct. By "files" I mean the published output not the source files. Source files could easily be shared through Google Drive. I am trying to gather publishing ideas here.

Greig

[Peter Grainge]

So what you want is somewhere to host the published output rather than just making the files available. Making that happen with restricted access is something that would surely be best asked on a Google forum or direct to Google?

You can put your source files on Google Drive but you cannot have more than one person work on the project at a time and each time you switch PCs, you must allow time for the local copy to update.

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