![]() While our proof of concept work included creating a named/defined project folder in Google Drive, for example, the fact we had to create it in a single user’s account and then share it rather than it being a common, organizationally owned folder with access permissions struck us as a real square peg and round hole issue – and synchronization was always going to be painful and scary. While folders in Dropbox can be shared (and the view of them is consistent), in Google Drive the way I arrange my files in folders is very different to the way someone else may arrange those exact same files in their own folder view. While in AffinityLive, a project is a shared collaborative space for internal (and in some circumstances, external) users to use, the model around almost all cloud storage services is personal and private. ![]() One of the challenges we faced when looking at the best way to integrate was the inverted mental model most of these platforms use. the list of popular cloud storage platforms where our clients are storing their proposals, project files, contracts and more continue to be more and more popular. Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Skydrive, Evernote. One of the features of AffinityLive that we’ve been meaning to upgrade for a while is our integration with cloud storage vendors. This post shows you how I did it in a PoC sense with AffinityLive. Unfortunately, the InkFilePicker model is well suited to importing/copying files and not as well suited to linking to them, which is essential if you want to make it easy for users to click through and see/edit files in Google Drive, but by combining InkFilePicker with Google’s Picker product you can get the best of both worlds. TL DR: if you have a web (or mobile) app and you want to make it easy for your users to import/sync files from their Dropbox, Box, Skydrive, Evernote, Facebook and more than half a dozen other sources, you can now use a single “proxy” service, InkFilePicker, and easily pick, import and then update/export files from and to these services into your web app with just a few lines of JavaScript.
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