I'm exploring the possibilities of using the Google Forms API to create Forms dynamically from my Node Express service.
After some trail and error I'm able to do a basic conversion of assessments from another system into Google forms.
But now I want to manually change the created forms and I don't know how I can access these. It's created using a service account. Can I give permissions to email addresses or something?
Accessing the Form
If you are not using Google Workspace you would need to manually share the file with the Gmail account.
Depending on which Version of Drive API you are using. You would need to use:
permissions:create
or
permissions:insert
This will allow you to create an option to directly share the file owned by the service account to another user with access to the Drive UI.
There is also a guide on how to utilize the "permission" for Drive V3 with a sample code for Node, it might give you an insight on how to follow it up:
/**
* Batch permission modification
* @param{string} fileId file ID
* @param{string} targetUserEmail username
* @param{string} targetDomainName domain
* @return{list} permission id
* */
async function shareFile(fileId, targetUserEmail, targetDomainName) {
const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');
const {google} = require('googleapis');
// Get credentials and build service
// TODO (developer) - Use appropriate auth mechanism for your app
const auth = new GoogleAuth({
scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
});
const service = google.drive({version: 'v3', auth});
const permissionIds = [];
const permissions = [
{
type: 'user',
role: 'writer',
emailAddress: targetUserEmail, // '[email protected]',
},
{
type: 'domain',
role: 'writer',
domain: targetDomainName, // 'example.com',
},
];
// Note: Client library does not currently support HTTP batch
// requests. When possible, use batched requests when inserting
// multiple permissions on the same item. For this sample,
// permissions are inserted serially.
for (const permission of permissions) {
try {
const result = await service.permissions.create({
resource: permission,
fileId: fileId,
fields: 'id',
});
permissionIds.push(result.data.id);
console.log(`Inserted permission id: ${result.data.id}`);
} catch (err) {
// TODO(developer): Handle failed permissions
console.error(err);
}
}
return permissionIds;
}Reference
