Title: Authorization question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Authorization question

 *  Resolved [mlautens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlautens/)
 * (@mlautens)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorization-question/)
 * I bought a license for Google Drive Embedder Enterprise edition, because I wanted
   to begin sharing Drive folders and some calendars through our WordPress site.
   I wanted the Drive folders to be shown on a page and the visitor to the site 
   being able to click to drill down to subfolders and then clicking on files to
   display them. (Just like you’d get if you browsed directly to the link for the
   shared folder.)
 * Your videos showed this working with your plugin. After installation, I then 
   fetched the free version of the Google Apps Login plugin and went through the
   process of authorizing APIs, creating a service account, etc. On the Drive Embedder
   plugin settings, I said to create a base folder, specified WordPress Files, and
   it created that folder on my Google Drive. All good, apparently. I then copied
   a folder containing three subfolders into that WordPress Files folder and created
   a new page on my website. I clicked the option to Add Google File. It showed 
   me my Google Drive, including the WordPress Files folder, but it did not let 
   me select the folder INSIDE of the WordPress Files folder.
 * So I put a copy of the folder in my main Google Drive. Now I could select the
   folder (the one containing three subfolders) that I want to share. I selected
   that folder, told it to embed on the page, and published the page.
 * I browse to the page in an incognito browser window. When the page loads, I’m
   prompted to authorize Google Drive. AH! Here’s the breakdown for me. I do not
   want my website visits to have to make a Google Account in order to authorize
   and see my files. Nowhere did your documentation tell me that it only worked 
   for people with Google Accounts.
 * I want to embed a folder from MY Google Drive on my website and show that folder
   and its contents, including subfolders, to anyone who visits my website without
   requiring them to do anything with Google at all.
 * Is this possible with your plugin? If so, how?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-drive-embedder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-drive-embedder/)

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 *  [danlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danlester/)
 * (@danlester)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorization-question/#post-5518844)
 * Thank you for your message. We have been in touch on email now, but for the benefit
   of others:
 * The required functionality is ‘Controlled Folders’.
 * To embed a Drive folder in a page/post, click the Add Google File button in the
   post editor, then select the folder you want. Check the ‘Embed document’ style,
   and click Options…
 * Select ‘Register a controlled folder’, and ensure the View column of the permissions
   table is set to ‘Always’. This will allow all viewers to see the folder without
   connecting with a Google account.
 * For those viewers to be able to do anything with the folder contents, you will
   probably need them to be shared as ‘Anyone with the link can view’ in Google 
   Drive itself.

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 * Last reply from: [danlester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danlester/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authorization-question/#post-5518844)
 * Status: resolved