[sscanlan]

The most succinct way I can put it is as follows: Instead of pointing to a folder somewhere (as I do now in EFL) I’d like to point to a Google Docs folder… think Easy Folder Listing for Google Docs.

I’d be happy to add more detail if you’d like…

Thanks!

-Shawn

[sscanlan]

Hi again Michael… just a gentle nudge! Wondering whether or not you’re still warm to the idea of taking on this project…

Thanks!

-Shawn

[sscanlan]

Hi Michael, waiting anxiously for “Advanced Folder Listing” — what’s the ETA?

Thanks!

[sscanlan]

Hi Michael, just thought I’d check-in and reassure you that this is a project worthy of your time!

[sscanlan]

Michael, I have a couple of updates from the author of that post I linked to in my last post. I hope these bits of info help!

I ended up using the google docs API v3 with oAuth for the organization so that I could request the list of documents and then show it in my webpage. So, in short I was not able to get the iframe working. Also, I mostly hacked together the code that would show the list of google docs and so I’d suggest reading over the api v3 documentation rather than me providing you with an example. The key really is using the latest (v3) example as v1 and v2, which has a lot of existing documentation and examples out are fairly outdated and funky.

…and as a follow-up to my thanks and request for that code, he answered:

Haha, no I bastardized their API by making direct CURL requests and processing the resulting data myself, if you’re going to spend time working on something it shouldn’t be my code. Also it has the auth stuff hard coded in

docs list api v3

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/

gdata downloads:

http://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/downloads/list

python client (has some working examples you can use almost immediately)

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/

oauth playground:

http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/

good luck!

So we’re WAY WAY outta my league now… over to you, Michael.

Thanks!

[sscanlan]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for this.

What I’d like to do is change the colour of the links themselves. Is there a way to override what’s defined in the template manager (i.e link hover and link color)and define the link and hover colours of *just* the easy folder filenames?

[sscanlan]

Michael, you are very welcome and may I say I’m thrilled you’re considering my suggestion!

As I mentioned, I’ve been searching (ad nauseum) for a solution and came across something that might be pertinent to the task ahead: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9103154/how-can-i-embed-a-google-docs-collection-in-an-iframe

-Shawn

[sscanlan]

Michael, thanks for the info on making fonts larger. Very useful.

How about changing the colour of the font? how is that controlled?

Thanks!

[sscanlan]

I agree… this would be a very useful addition to an already great bit of coding.

Either way you are to be commended, Michael.

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