Collaborative editing

Google editor integration🔗

To allow users to create and edit Office documents with Google, please follow these steps:

1. Go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library

2. Search for Google Drive API, select it and click to Manage it.

3. Make sure the API is enabled (click ENABLE).

4. Under Credentials, click to Create Credentials → OAuth Client ID.

1. Select Web application as the application type.
2. Type the name of your application (any name you wish).
3. Inside Authorized JavaScript origins type your FileRun website domain (if FileRun is installed at "http://www.mysite.com/filerun" type "http://www.mysite.com").
4. Inside Authorized redirect URIs paste the Redirect URI you can copy from the FileRun control panel when editing the Google Editor plugin.

5. Now that you added a Client ID, you should see it in the OAuth 2.0 client IDs list on the Credentials page.

6. Click the name of your created client ID.

7. Copy both the Client ID and Client secret and configure them inside Control Panel → Files → Plugins → Google Docs Editor.

8. Clear your browser's cache and reload FileRun in your browser to see the new options.

Note

If the application is set to Testing instead of Production under OAuth consent screen you will need to add test users and these users will be the only users that can use this integration.