These slide has been presented by me at the european plone symposium's sprint 2009. The original author is Federica D'Elia, I just review it.

1. Integration of Google Docs service in Plone Federica D'Elia - [email_address] Massimo Azzolini - [email_address]

3. Automatic setup of sharing settings on Google documents according to user roles of the Plone application

4. Integrates Google Docs-based support for collaborative editing in Plone

6. Google Authentication (GA)

7. Google Sharing (GS)

10. The gdata-python library provides access to the Google Data APIs through classes and methods for constructing queries and using response data

11. GDIP uses methods provided by gdata-python library for uploading, downloading, deleting documents on Google servers, querying for a list of documents, and modifying document sharing permissions Google API

13. Access The Plone user can access his document Doc.odt from the Plone application and....

14. Access ...and from his Google account

21. The procedure allows Web applications to authenticate users through their Google accounts

22. Authentication Procedure The Plone user is redirected to a Google page that invites him to insert his credentials Once he logs in with his Google account, the user is asked to authorize the Plone application to access his documents

24. Authentication Procedure

27. For example, if a Plone user assigns another user the Editor role on one of his documents, the other user will be able to read and modify that document through his Google account

28. Role change The Plone user assigns the Editor role on the Doc.odt document to user Mario Rossi...

29. Role change ...Mario Rossi will then be able to read and modify that document through his Google account

31. GS doesn't manage changes on the Gdocs side.

33. GoogleModify panel

34. iframe A new view, called by GoogleModify, discovers the specific URL of the Google Docs document function and embeds that page in the current window of the Plone application exploiting the iframe mechanism. New view template:

35. Collaborative editing The user Federica can edit a shared document from the GoogleModify panel...

36. ...thus collaborating with Mario Rossi who is working on the same document directly from the Google Docs application Collaborative editing

38. Manage it in both plone and gdocs

39. Change permissions

41. gdata-python not so “stable” (eg. xxx.ods)

42. Infos: Questions?! Federica D'Elia - [email_address] Massimo Azzolini - [email_address] Code soon on Collective!