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Google Docs gets an API for task automation

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Re: Google Docs gets an API for task automation

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Post by leesalminen »

One cool thing I did with the Google Drive API was pull in our app's release notes from Google Drive. This allows our product and support teams to write/edit release notes and have it "magically" appear in-app as HTML. The workflow is:

1.) Employee creates a GDoc in a known, shared folder

2.) Application pulls all GDocs from this shared folder

3.) Application uses GDrive API to convert the GDoc to HTML

4.) HTML is displayed to the end user.

This proved to be an easy solution to having to involve a developer to fix a typo in a release note.

Re: Google Docs gets an API for task automation

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Post by nolite »

leesalminen wrote: post #2

One cool thing I did with the Google Drive API was pull in our app's release notes from Google Drive. This allows our product and support teams to write/edit release notes and have it "magically" appear in-app as HTML. The workflow is: 1.) Employee creates a GDoc in a known, shared folder 2.) Application pulls all GDocs from this shared folder 3.) Application uses GDrive API to convert the GDoc to HTML 4.) HTML is di…

I did something similar and hacky by just rendering the google drive links in an iframe in our app

Re: Google Docs gets an API for task automation

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Post by toomuchtodo »

tylfin wrote: post #5

Do Google Doc features really impact the community enough warrant a post? Just seems like marketing to me.

Useful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).
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