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Identifying app usage in your Google Drive audit logs

July 12, 2017

Posted by Rio Akasaka, Product Manager, Google Drive and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suiteoriginating_app_idReports APIGoogle Drive REST APIDrive activity requestoriginating_app_idGET https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/userKeyGET https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drivedocumentation

Google People API now supports updates to Contacts and Contact Groups

July 5, 2017

Posted by Amos Yuen, Software Engineer, and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite
Google People APIlaunchedContacts APIGoogle Developers Consoleherecheck out this video

using the Google APIs Client Library for JavaPerson contactToCreate = new Person(); List names = new ArrayList<>(); names.add(new Name().setGivenName("John").setFamilyName("Doe")); contactToCreate.setNames(names); Person createdContact = peopleService.people().createContact(contactToCreate).execute();https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contactspeople.createhereString resourceName = "people/c12345"; // existing contact resource name Person contactToUpdate = peopleService.people().get(resourceName) .setPersonFields("names,emailAddresses") .execute(); List emailAddresses = new ArrayList<>(); emailAddresses.add(new EmailAddress().setValue("john.doe@gmail.com")); contactToUpdate.setEmailAddresses(emailAddresses); Person updatedContact = peopleService.people().updateContact(contactToUpdate) .setUpdatePersonFields("emailAddresses") .execute();people.update herehere

Modifying events with the Google Calendar API

June 29, 2017

Posted by Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G Suite
Google Calendar APIemail markupvar TIMEZONE = "America/Los_Angeles"; var EVENT = { "start": {"dateTime": "2017-07-01T19:00:00", "timeZone": TIMEZONE}, "end": {"dateTime": "2017-07-01T22:00:00", "timeZone": TIMEZONE}, "recurrence": ["RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=2;UNTIL=20171231"] };GCAL.events().patch(calendarId='primary', eventId=EVENT_ID, sendNotifications=True, body=EVENT).execute()check out this videoofficial API documentationCalendar service

VIDEO: Part 1—Introducing Team Drives for developers

June 7, 2017

Posted by Hodie Meyers, Product Manager, Google Drive, and Wesley Chun (@wescpy), Developer Advocate, G SuiteWe launched Team Drives

How to create Team Drives

How to add members/users to your Team Drives

How to create folders in Team Drives (just like creating a regular Drive folder)

How to upload/import files to Team Drives folders (just like uploading files to regular folders)

Drive API documentation

Google I/O session recap: how to build custom apps with App Maker

June 1, 2017

Posted by Geva Rechav, Product Manager, App MakerGoogle I/OApp Maker Closing enterprise “app gaps” with App Maker How does it work?

Define your data models, by importing existing Google Sheets to App Maker, connecting to Google Cloud SQL instances, or manually defining custom objects field by field.

Build your UI by adding pre-built components like data entry forms, report templates and easily create event triggers and application flows.

Optionally, add open source HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on the client UI and on the app server, implementing custom functionality that’s not provided out-of-the-box.

apply here Ideas to get started

If you have a large Sheet with more than a handful of users updating it regularly: Sheets usually have an underlying workflow. An App Maker app will provide a better UI for it—showing the workflow visually, prompting for actions and eliminating data entry errors.

If you perform recurring bulk operations in Calendar or Gmail: Say an employee joins or leaves a department, you can build an App Maker app to generate the appropriate bulk-operations in a few clicks.

If your company is already using Apps Script and BigQuery: This means you’ve already invested in customizing workflows. App Maker can increase the velocity of developing custom apps.

Updating developer identity guidelines and registration processes to protect users

May 11, 2017

Posted by Naveen Agarwal, Identity Team(x-posted from Google Developers)immediate action Updating app identity guidelines Google API user data policy New review processes and restrictions on web apps requesting user data our earlier post

Create quizzes in Google Forms with Apps Script

April 27, 2017

Posted by Tynia Yang, Software Engineer, Google Formswe launched Quizzes in Google FormsGoogle Apps Script Forms Servicequizzes

Create quizzes

Assign point values and correct answers for questions

Implement custom grading schemes

Creating an auto-graded question

function createGradedCheckboxQuestionWithAutofeedback() { // Make sure the form is a quiz. var form = FormApp.getActiveForm(); form.setIsQuiz(true); // Make a 10 point question and set feedback on it var item = FormApp.getActiveForm().addCheckboxItem(); item.setTitle("What flavors are in neapolitan ice cream?"); item.setPoints(10); // chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry are the correct answers item.setChoices([ item.createChoice("chocolate", true), item.createChoice("vanilla", true), item.createChoice("rum raisin", false), item.createChoice("strawberry", true), item.createChoice("mint", false) ]); // If the respondent answers correctly, they'll see this feedback when they view //scores. var correctFeedback = FormApp.createFeedback() .setText("You're an ice cream expert!") .build(); item.setFeedbackForCorrect(correctFeedback); // If they respond incorrectly, they'll see this feedback with helpful links to //read more about ice cream. var incorrectFeedback = FormApp.createFeedback() .setText("Sorry, wrong answer") .addLink( "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_ice_cream", "Read more") .build(); item.setFeedbackForIncorrect(incorrectFeedback); }documentationStack OverflowG+ communitylet us knownewissue tracker for Apps Script