Setting ACL to "Anyone with the link"

[jay...@gmail.com]

Does the API support a way to set the ACL for an uploaded document to the sharing option of "Anyone with the link can edit without signing in"? I didn't see this in the documentation, but need to do this for my site. Is there any way to do so?

[Vic Fryzel]

Hey jayred,

Yes, you can :D

Here's a sample ACL entry:

<entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU8CQXk_eit7ImA9Wx9WFUk.&quot;">
<id>https://docs.google.com/feeds/id/document%3A1I9YlQF5yTrnZv8gYS8VoNIVAn-soDDNY6_qhn7Bg/acl/default</id>
<updated>2011-01-20T17:17:40.742Z</updated>
<app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-01-20T17:17:40.742Z</app:edited>
<category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/acl/2007#accessRule"/>
<title>Document Permission - default</title>
<link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/document%3A1I9YlQF5yTrnZv8gYS8VoNIVAn-soDDNY6_qhn7Bg/acl/default"/>
<link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/document%3A1I9YlQF5yTrnZv8gYS8VoNIVAn-soDDNY6_qhn7Bg/acl/default"/>
<gAcl:withKey key="CLJK4IsE">
<gAcl:role value="writer"/>
</gAcl:withKey>
<gAcl:role value="none"/>
<gAcl:scope type="default"/>
</entry>

Thanks,

-Vic

[jay...@gmail.com]

Hi Vic,

Thanks for the quick reply. Would you mind explaining to me how the following lines indicate this ACL setting? 

<gAcl:withKey key="CLJK4IsE">
<gAcl:role value="writer"/>
</gAcl:withKey>
<gAcl:role value="none"/>
<gAcl:scope type="default"/>

Thanks,

Jared

[Vic Fryzel]

Sure, I'll respond inline:

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:

<gAcl:withKey key="CLJK4IsE">

Require that the URL contain this value as the value of the authkey GET parameter.

 

<gAcl:role value="writer"/>

Anyone with the above key is a writer.

 

</gAcl:withKey>

Close the above gAcl:withKey element.

 

<gAcl:role value="none"/>

Everyone not with the key should not be able to read or write. 

<gAcl:scope type="default"/>

The above gAcl:role element applies to everyone in the "default" scope, which is everyone on the internet.  Essentially, block all access to the document unless they have the specified key.

-Vic

[VHanded]

Hi, I am having the same problem.

Where can I get the key? I tried my ClientLogin token, it's not working. 

This is the code I used:

 string stringEntry = "<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gAcl='http://schemas.google.com/acl/2007' " +

                "xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' gd:etag='" + doc.ETag + "'>" +

                "<gAcl:withKey key='" + service.QueryClientLoginToken() + "'><gAcl:role value='" + role + "'/></gAcl:withKey>" +

                "<gAcl:scope type='" + scope + "' value='default'/>" +

                "</entry>";

        Stream responseStream = service.StringSend(doc.AccessControlList, stringEntry, GDataRequestType.Insert);

Thanks.

[M. FarouQ]

Same problem here, I CAN'T GET THE KEY, when I want to update from one visibility mode (which doesn't require a key) to another "with link" which requires it. I know Google generates it at run-time but how are we supposed to use the API to update an aclEntry like that?

[L. G.]

Same problem as M. FarouQ, can anyone help ?

[L. G.]

ok, problem solved : after inserting a new WithKey object into the AclEntry, getWithKey() on the updated AclEntry retrieve the new auto-regenerated key, different from the first one.

2011/8/1 L. G. <lg.g...@gmail.com>

[Andrew Fields]

This discussion might help you too:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/forum.html?place=topic%2Fgoogle-documents-list-api%2Fh2Iy0yK057Y%2Fdiscussion

Note that there is discussion on the Docs List user group that Google may soon be changing the way "Anyone with link" works.