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Google Drive Visitor Sharing: Share Securely Outside Your Organization

August 18, 2023August 26, 2022 by Steve Chipman

One of the key advantages that Google Docs has over the competition is that users can share a document, spreadsheet, presentation, and other file types with any Google Workspace or consumer Gmail user outside of … Read more →

Google Drive Videos: 6 Business Use Cases

August 20, 2023November 25, 2020 by Steve Chipman

If your organization uses Google Workspace, you may have discovered that when you upload a video to Google Drive, it’s not simply a stored file—the video can be played inline. What’s more, Google Drive uses … Read more →

10 Ways Google Drive Saves Businesses Time & Money

August 8, 2023March 3, 2019 by Steve Chipman

Google Drive is well-known as a consumer product. 1.5+ billion Gmail users each have access to 15 GB of free cloud storage on Google Drive (consumers can always buy more storage). Many people don’t know … Read more →

How To Set Up Salesforce Files Connect for Google Drive

September 20, 2022November 8, 2018 by Steve Chipman

Updated: December 26, 2019

Salesforce Files Connect for Google Drive allows specified users to add Google Drive files to the Files section or a Lightning Page component of any record.

The Salesforce Files tab will show Google Drive as a Connected Source. A custom tab called Google Drive can be created. This tab can have list views like any other tab.

Setting up Files Connect for Google Drive requires administrative access to both Salesforce and the Google Cloud Platform console (the same admin login as Google Workspace).

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