Save in Google Document format by default

[gtr33m]

Scott,

Thanks for the great extention. I find it tremendously useful and would like to ask for a feature.

Currently images are saved to drive in file format, and as such are not editable and I think is one of the reasons there are no previews. In order to work with the file within Google Drive you must first export it to a google document.

I think that having an option to convert the image/document to a google document format on save would fix a number of issues.

I'm no expert on the API, but I believe this is catered for, and it is certainly an option when you manually upload documents to Drive to convert as they are uploaded.

Thanks,

Mark

[scottcheng]

Hi Mark,

Thank you very much for your support. :)

Currently images are saved to drive in file format, and as such are not editable and I think is one of the reasons there are no previews. In order to work with the file within Google Drive you must first export it to a google document.

Great point. Thanks.

To create files in Drive with links, my current approach is via the Google Docs Viewer, for which I'm not able to find any documented options, e.g. convert file to Google document. Others have similar issues, too. The reason I'm not using the official Drive API is that it seems to only support uploading files with the entire file body in a POST request, rather than merely passing a link.

But your point inspired me that perhaps I can try to:

1. First save the file to Drive in plain file format (with my current approach),
2. Then use the API to convert the file to a Google document.

I'll definitely give it a shot when I have chance.

Best regards, Scott

[gtr33m]

Thanks for the quick response Scott,

I'm not familiar with this API, but the approach sounds like it could work fairly easily. One thing you will probably have to do is write a delete of the original file into the routine after checking for a successful conversion. Manual conversion after upload creates a second converted file, leaving the original still present.

Hopefully it works. I look forward to seeing it in action.

Regards,

Mark

On 4 September 2012 17:25, Scott Cheng [email protected] wrote:

Hi Mike,

Thank you for your support. :)

Currently images are saved to drive in file format, and as such are not editable and I think is one of the reasons there are no previews. In order to work with the file within Google Drive you must first export it to a google document.

Great point. Thanks.

To create files in Drive with links, my current approach is via the Google Docs Viewer https://docs.google.com/viewer, for which I'm not able to find any documented options, e.g. convert file to Google document. Others have similar issueshttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/4917519/google-docs-viewer-url-parameters, too. The reason I'm not using the official Drive APIhttps://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/is that it seems to only support uploading files with the entire file body in a POST request, rather than merely passing a link.

But your point inspired me that perhaps I can try to:

1. First save the file to Drive in plain file format (with my current approach),
2. Then use the API to convert the file to a Google document.

I'll definitely give it a shot when I have chance.

Best regards, Scott

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Mark Hawkins

Partner Medalist (Victoria) Pty Ltd

[scottcheng]

Mark,

I'm so very sorry that I got your name wrong at first... My bad.

Thanks for the note. I'll be busy with other stuffs for a least a couple of weeks, but I'll come to it as soon as I can.

Best regards, Scott