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Performance of external storage is not optimal and also depends on the external party. |
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The steps to mount Google Drive are described here. This is not further supported by the Research Drive Helpdesk. |
- Go to the "External storage" option at your personal settings page.
- Choose a folder name to which Google Drive will be linked, then choose "Google Drive" as storage
- Click on the gear behind "Google Drive" to configure the Google Drive API
- Start creating a Project, if you have not yet created a project.
- In the Dashboard choose for "Enable APIs and services" at the top.
- Lookup the Google Drive API and enable these.
- Then choose for "OAuth consent screen" to start creating your oAuth2 App credentials.
- For the oAuth2 App permission, fill in the following fields;
- AppName = Your App Name (For example: ResearchDrive)
- Domain = surfsara.nl
- Token Time Limit
- Then start with creating your Client ID oAuth credentials
- To create your Client ID oAuth credentials, choose "Web application".
Then enter a name for the application, for example "Research Drive".
Finally, enter the Redirect URI, which is as follows; https://<your-researchdrive-environment-url>/index.php/settings/personal?sectionid=storage
For example; https://researchdrive.surfsara.nl/index.php/settings/personal?sectionid=storage
- After these steps, you will receive your oAuth2 Client tokens.
- Enter the Google Drive Client ID & Client Secret in the appropriate fields & click "Grant Access" to grant access to Research Drive.
- Then easily find your external storage via the "External Storage" menu option.
