Google Drive

You can enable the files getting uploaded on Jive to store on Google Drive by setting up a place-level connection to synchronize files from both sides.

To be able to manage your uploaded files via Google Drive instead of in Jive, you can set up a place-level connection to synchronize files as well as comments about the files from both sides. Note that you need a Google Apps enterprise implementation configured with specific permissions groups to use this integration.

The Google Drive integration provides the following features:

  • Upload files to Jive and store them in Google Drive.
  • Upload files or add Google Docs in Google Drive and sync them back to Jive.

Requirements for Google Drive add-on

  • StreamOnce add-on. For more information about the add-on, see the Jive StreamOnce documentation.

Setting up the integration

The complete setup includes these steps:

  1. On the Google side, create the Google Integration User. This user is the account you'll use to connect your Jive community to Google. It's also the basis for the Jive system user that will be a member of every place in Jive that will be linked to Google Drive, linking it to the associated Google Drive folder. For more information, see Setting up Google Drive.
  2. On the Google side, create the Google Integration User. This user is the account you'll use to connect your Jive community to Google. The Jive Integration user is based on this account.
  3. On the Jive side, create a Google Integration User with the Manage System permission override. The Jive Integration user that becomes a member of every place in Jive that will be linked to Google Drive, linking it to the associated Google Drive folder.

    Then install the Google Drive add-on and create a storage integration with Google Drive. For more information, see Connecting to Google Drive.

Using more than one external storage provider

You can use more than one type of external storage. For example, you can have some of your groups store files in Jive for SharePoint, and some in Box.com. After you've set up the initial community connections to your storage accounts, connections are set up group by group. When you create a group, you decide whether the group will use native Jive storage or another storage. However, you can't connect the same group to more than one storage provider.