Authorization question
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I bought a license for Google Drive Embedder Enterprise edition, because I wanted to begin sharing Drive folders and some calendars through our WordPress site. I wanted the Drive folders to be shown on a page and the visitor to the site being able to click to drill down to subfolders and then clicking on files to display them. (Just like you’d get if you browsed directly to the link for the shared folder.)
Your videos showed this working with your plugin. After installation, I then fetched the free version of the Google Apps Login plugin and went through the process of authorizing APIs, creating a service account, etc. On the Drive Embedder plugin settings, I said to create a base folder, specified WordPress Files, and it created that folder on my Google Drive. All good, apparently. I then copied a folder containing three subfolders into that WordPress Files folder and created a new page on my website. I clicked the option to Add Google File. It showed me my Google Drive, including the WordPress Files folder, but it did not let me select the folder INSIDE of the WordPress Files folder.
So I put a copy of the folder in my main Google Drive. Now I could select the folder (the one containing three subfolders) that I want to share. I selected that folder, told it to embed on the page, and published the page.
I browse to the page in an incognito browser window. When the page loads, I’m prompted to authorize Google Drive. AH! Here’s the breakdown for me. I do not want my website visits to have to make a Google Account in order to authorize and see my files. Nowhere did your documentation tell me that it only worked for people with Google Accounts.
I want to embed a folder from MY Google Drive on my website and show that folder and its contents, including subfolders, to anyone who visits my website without requiring them to do anything with Google at all.
Is this possible with your plugin? If so, how?
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