Prepare Your Google Drive Structured Connection (Beta)

Before you connect Google Drive to Data 360, gather the required information and perform these preliminary actions in Google Drive and Salesforce.

  • Make sure you complete these steps using a Google account that has access to the files and folders you want to connect to Salesforce.
  • To ingest structured data, find the Google Drive folder containing the relevant files. Identify the ID at the end of the folder’s URL. Example: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/{id}.
  1. In the Google Cloud Console, turn on the Google Drive API.
  2. In the Google Cloud Console, create an OAuth 2.0 client ID and client secret for a web application. Alternatively, in Salesforce Setup, you can create the OAuth-based authentication for Google. Salesforce recommends using the Google Cloud Console to create OAuth credentials.
  3. In Salesforce, create external credentials for your Google Drive connection.