Timeline for Limit Google Doc add-on's access to documents
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| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:45 | comment | added | Rubén - Volunteer Moderator -♦ | SO has a Google Apps Script chatroom,. It might not be too hard to make an add-on for personal usethat meets your needs. I will try to hang around there this week. | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:39 | comment | added | D.W. | Thank you for all of your answers! I am confused by everything I have read. I will ponder and see if I can figure out how to ask a more specific question. I appreciate your assistance. | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:31 | comment | added | Rubén - Volunteer Moderator -♦ | It's not as simple as that because add-ons could install time-driven triggers. From a security risk perspective, one of these triggers might access all your documents, in Google Drive, when your computer is turned off. | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:26 | comment | added | D.W. | Thank you for your time and attention to this! I am struggling to understand the implications of that for my question and for security risks. Does this mean that all Docs add-ons are already "opt-in" on a per-document basis, in the sense that the add-on only gains access to a document once a user clicks on a menu item to enable the add-on on that document, and the add-on doesn't have access to other documents where no one has clicked on the menu item? | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:21 | comment | added | Rubén - Volunteer Moderator -♦ | @D.W. This is not exactly the answer that I was looking for but it's the same question follow-up Do Add-ons Travel with Google-Docs? | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:15 | comment | added | Rubén - Volunteer Moderator -♦ | @D.W. IIRC I already answered that... not sure if it was on SO or if it was on mentoring session. Give me moment to see if I can find the SO question | |
| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:14 | comment | added | D.W. |
Thank you! I'm confused by what I read there. I don't know what it means for an add-on to get access only "to files in which the add-on [..] is used" (what determines whether a file is considered "used" by the add-on?). Maybe if the add-on hasn't declared @OnlyCurrentDoc, the add-on only gains access to a document if I click on one of the menu items associated with that add-on while that document is open? Can you help me understand the implications of the documentation there? Or would it be better for me to ask a new question?
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| Oct 30, 2023 at 1:04 | history | answered | Rubén - Volunteer Moderator -♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |