Quick update: I figured part of this out - This HTML lets you imbed
Google Docs into your own webpage - to let users edit/view stuff
inplace: (found by doing lots of 'view source' and poking around)
(some html from your webpage here) <br>
<iframe width=100% height=300 src="
https://www.google.com/accounts/
ServiceLoginAuth?
service=wise&continue=DOCURLHERE&Email=LOGINHERE&Passwd=PASSWORDHERE"
>
</iframe><br>
(more of your html here)
DOCURLHERE = url to the spreadsheet, you can get one to test with by
looking in the URL bar of your browser after opening a Google
spreadsheet
LOGINHERE = user's google login
PASSWORDHERE = user's google password
This opens the document in a frame - and gives all the save/etc
options. (I have some other javascript to allow resizing/etc.)
Things I have left to figure out:
- Better way to single-sign in the user from GAE, to avoid having his
password written to the HTML
- I would prefer 'fullscreen' mode, since it hides the header with
extraneous info (ie: google navbar, etc) which is accessible via
shift-f inside the spreadsheet editor, but I need a way to invoke it
by default... would make it look 'truely' seemless in my GAE webpage
- A way to calculate the doc URL programatically (I'm hoping the Docs
APIs have some info - haven't researched there yet)
If anyone has tips / has done this before... info is much appreciated,
Thanks,