Drive - List task

The Drive - List task lets you search and retrieve files and folders that are stored on a Google Drive account.

Google Drive is a cloud file storage service that provides you personal storage space to store and access collaborative shared files and folders in the cloud.

Before you begin

Ensure that you perform the following tasks in your Google Cloud project before configuring the Drive - List task:

Enable the Google Drive API ( drive.googleapis.com ).
Enable the Google Drive API
Create an authentication profile . Application Integration uses an authentication profile to connect to an authentication endpoint for the Drive - List task.
For information about granting additional roles or permissions to a service account, see Granting, changing, and revoking access .

Configure the Drive - List task

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Application Integration page.
Go to Application Integration
In the navigation menu, click Integrations .
The Integrations page appears listing all the integrations available in the Google Cloud project.
Select an existing integration or click Create integration to create a new one.
If you are creating a new integration:
1. Enter a name and description in the Create Integration pane.
2. Select a region for the integration.
  Note: The Regions dropdown only lists the regions provisioned in your Google Cloud project. To provision a new region, click Enable Region . See Enable new region for more information.
3. Select a service account for the integration. You can change or update the service account details of an integration any time from the Integration summary pane in the integration toolbar.
  Note: The option to select a service account is displayed only if you have enabled integration governance for the selected region.
4. Click Create . The newly created integration opens in the integration editor .
In the integration editor navigation bar, click Tasks to view the list of available tasks and connectors.
Click and place the Drive - List element in the integration editor.
Click the Drive - List element on the designer to view the Drive - List task configuration pane.
Go to Authentication , and select an existing authentication profile that you want to use.
Optional. If you have not created an authentication profile prior to configuring the task, Click + New authentication profile and follow the steps as mentioned in Create a new authentication profile .
Go to Task Input , and configure the desired inputs fields using the following Task input parameters table.
Changes to the inputs fields are saved automatically.

Task input parameters

The following table describes the input parameters of the Drive - List task:

Property

Data type

Description

Corpora

String

Optional parameter to search for files within a corpora .

DriveId

String

The ID of your Google shared drive.

IncludeItemsFromAllDrives

Boolean

Set the value to true if you want to include both your personal drive and shared drive items in the search results.

Default value: false .

IncludeLabels

String

A comma-separated list of label IDs that is included in the labelInfo part of the response. For more information about label IDs, see Labels overview .

IncludePermissionsForView

String

Specify published . For more information, see Share files, folders & drives .

OrderBy

String

The order in which the files are sorted. Each key sorts ascending by default. For more information, see the files.list method .

The following are the salid values:

createdTime
folder
modifiedByMeTime
modifiedTime
name
name_natural
quotaBytesUsed
recency
sharedWithMeTime
starred
viewedByMeTime

Note: When you sort the files by recency descending, if the last thing you did was view a file, then that file appears at the top of the files.list result.

PageSize

Integer

The maximum number of files to return per page.

Acceptable values are 1 to 1000 .

Default value: 100 .

PageToken

String

The token for continuing a previous Drive - List task. Set this value to the value of nextPageToken from the previous response.

Q

String

A query for filtering the file results. For more information, see Search for files .

Spaces

String

A comma-separated list of spaces to query within the corpora.

Acceptable values are drive and appDataFolder .

SupportsAllDrives

Boolean

Set the value to true if the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives.

Default value: false .

Task output

The Drive - List task returns the response output containing the list of files. Following is a sample output:

  
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Error handling strategy

An error handling strategy for a task specifies the action to take if the task fails due to a temporary error . For information about how to use an error handling strategy, and to know about the different types of error handling strategies, see Error handling strategies .

Quotas and limits

For information about quotas and limits, see Quotas and limits .

What's next

Add edges and edge conditions .
Test and publish your integration.
Configure a trigger .
Add a Data Mapping task .
See all tasks for Google Cloud services .