August 2011

Google Apps Integration

August 17, 2011 07:23 by Greg Hacobian

Overview

Digitalbucket.net when combined with Google Apps allows users to take advantage of a simple, user-intuitive cloud based solution to share and collaborate on-line. The uses are truly limitless. Business users can communicate with their team, manage work and get things done effortlessly. They can reduce costs and increase productivity by combining the content management, collaboration and communication platforms on the cloud.

How to connect your Account to Google Apps domain?

To ensure a proper integration, you will need to add digitalbucket.net application to your Google Apps domain from the Google Apps Marketplace. In order to implement Single Sign On between 2 services, you will need a digitalbucket.net Business or Enterprise account.

To add digitalbucket.net to your Google Apps account, follow the following steps.

Step1. Find digitalbucket.net in the Google Marketplace and select “Add it now”.

Step 2. Agree to our Terms of Service.

Step 3. Grant Data Access for our APIs to access Google Apps' APIs.

Step 4- Click on the Enable app now button.

Once you hit the Enable app now button, the digitalbucket.net application integration with Google Apps will complete. The application’s navigation link may take 24 hours to appear.

When the app is enabled, you should see the digitalbucket.net application navigation link in the “more” drop down menu.

How do users connect Google Apps to their digitalbucket.net accounts (Single Sign On)?

At this point, you should have admin access to a domain on Google Apps. Next, you will want to connect your Google account to digitalbucket.net.

Log into the Google Apps account as admin, and select “more” menu (picture above) and select digitalbucket.net app. The first time any user comes here from Google, he/she will be prompted to log into an existing account, or create a new account.

new account. After successful login, each time you select digitalbucket.net from the more menu in Google Apps, you will automatically login to your digitalbucket.net account.

How to connect Google Apps users to digitalbucket.net sub-account?

While you are logged in as digitalbucket.net account administrator, click on the Account Manager icon. This will bring up a dialog where you can setup your account to meet your needs. One of the options on the left hand side is Google Apps Integration. Click on the link and you will see a page like this.

This is the page where you can “map” your sub-account to Google Apps user. By mapping users, your Google Apps users will have seamless access to their digitalbucket.net sub-accounts. Fill out the users and save changes.

How to access my Google Docs from digitalbucket.net?

It’s easy. Double Click on the Google Docs browser and you will have access to your files.

Simply drag and drop files from Google Docs to your digitalbucke.net File Manager or Vice Versa. Double clicking on the files on Google Docs Browser will open them for edit or preview depending on the file type.

It is also possible to send files from your digitalbucket.net File Manager to your Google Apps Gmail and Calendar apps. Right Click on a file and select Send to option. See picture below.