Create an Unstructured Data Connection from Google Drive (Beta)

Use the Google Drive connector for unstructured data to ingest PDFs and other supported file types from your Google Drive into Data Cloud.

See the Unstructured Data Formats for a list of support file formats for unstructured data.

This feature is a Beta Service. A customer may opt to try a Beta Service in its sole discretion. Any use of the Beta Service is subject to the applicable Beta Services Terms provided at Agreements and Terms. If you have questions or feedback about this Beta Service, contact the Data Cloud Connector team at datacloud-connectors-beta@salesforce.com.

To ingest unstructured data, you create an unstructured data lake object (UDLO) to reference the data from the external source. Data Cloud automatically creates a data stream to ingest data from the UDLO.

User Permissions Needed
To connect unstructured datae:One of these permission sets:
  • Data Cloud Admin
  • Data Cloud Marketing Admin
  • Data Cloud Data Aware Specialist

Before you begin:

  • Make sure you've set up external credentials and a connection to Google Drive.
  • Gather the ID for the shared drive in Google Drive that contains the files you want to ingest. To find the ID, select a drive, and copy the ID at the end of the URL. For example: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/{drive_id}.
  1. Enable the Google Workspace Drive API.
  2. From App Launcher, select Data Cloud.
  3. Click Data Lake Objects and then click New.
  4. From the New Data Lake Object menu, select From External Files, and click Next.
  5. Select the Google Drive connector for unstructured data and click Next.
  6. From the Select Connection dropdown list, select a connection. Data Cloud auto-populates the source based on the connection that you select.
  7. Add the folder ID.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Add an Object Name and an Object API Name for the UDLO. See Data Lake Object Naming Standards.
  10. From the Data Space dropdown list, select a data space in which to create the new UDMO or a data space from which to select an existing UDMO.
  11. Map the UDLO to a UDMO.
  • To create a new UDMO, click New.
  • To use an existing UDMO, click Existing, and select a UDMO from the list.
  1. Optionally, leave the checkbox selected to create a search index configuration for the UDMO using system defaults that automatically selects text fields and a chunking strategy for each field. You can deselect the checkbox and create a search index configuration later if you choose not to do so now.
  2. Click Next, or if you created a search index configuration, review the details, and save your work.

Data Cloud automatically creates a data stream, and it refreshes the stream every hour.

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