GAM Command pasted inside the ToDrive file

[Brett Havekost]

Good afternoon, 

I'm looking for the ability to prepend or append my GAM command that I send to ToDrive with the actual command.  

As an example:  gam print users allfields todrive tdtitle "All Users - All Fields - 01-13-2022" tdsheet "Original"

I'd like the "gam print users allfields" portion (or the entire line) somewhere in the file so that my peers know what command I ran to achieve that particular result in order to be repeatable within the team. 

Thanks
Brett

[Rance Hall]

Just out of curiosity, wouldn’t this break the sheets ability to be used as input for a second command?  Many of Ross’ examples are a chain of commands strung together using the output of one, to facilitate the next step.

 

I think I see the value in what you are asking, I just don’t think it practical.

 

I wonder if there is some sort of secondary option that might be more appropriate, maybe a “logtodrive” option?

 

Just thinking out loud.

 

R

 

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Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 4:21 PM
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Subject: [GAM] GAM Command pasted inside the ToDrive file

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[Ross Scroggs]

Brett,

The command used to generate the data is in the files description field.

Ross

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[Temple Rodgers]

Hm, this is really helpful.

I had no idea that the command is saved in the description and add to that, I wasn't even aware that the description is there. I guess that the description is overwritten if, for instance, you have multiple tabs in a Sheet, which have output from different GAM commands.

Then I ran:

"gam user us...@domain.com update drivefile <file id>  description "...... GAM command goes here ...."

So, I can use GAM to add a description. That gives exciting opportunities to add more information in a mass update to file descriptions using "gam csv"!

I was slightly frustrated that you have to use the folder view and then "view details" in order to see the description, you can't change a file's description when you're editing the file (which isn't GAM's problem, of course).

Thank you for this info'

Temple

[Brett Havekost]

Thanks Ross