Google Drive prerequisites for Trados

You need to know your client ID and client secret before using the Google Drive connector.

About this task

To retrieve your client ID and client secret, enable OAuth2 from your Google account. Also, to work with Shared Drives, you need to have access to Google Drive Workspace, which is a paid service. An alternative would be to sign up for a 30-day free trial of Google Drive Essentials, which also has the Shared Drives capability. You can start your free Google Drive Essentials trial by signing up to Google Drive Essentials; enter your email address, and then verify your address.

You cannot upload files larger than 5MB via the API. Also, Google Drive does not display the size and extension of native files.

Procedure

  1. Generate your OAuth2 credentials by using the OAuth2 Playground.
  2. Enable the Google Drive API.
  3. Under Application type, select Web application.
  4. Under Authorized redirect URLs, enter an appropriate URL.
    For example, https://cloud.trados.com/lc/t/tenantId/projects/oauth2/callback. The tenantId value is your Trados account ID.
  5. From the screen of the application you created earlier, select the OAuth consent screen.
  6. On the scopes screen, select Google Drive API | See, edit, create and delete all of your Google Drive files.