Google Drive Source

The Google Drive source configuration screen allows you to enable the crawling and classification of content stored in both G-Suite repositories and Google Drive personal accounts.

IMPORTANT! Make sure you created App for GDrive crawling prior to start adding the source. See Configure G Suite and Google Drive for Crawling for more information.

Complete the following fields:

Option	Description
Basic settings
Drive Type	Select Business.
User Email(s)	When adding a G-Suite source, enter the email address of the user's drive that you wish to crawl (via impersonation).
Crawl Shared Items	Select to crawl all files shared with the specified user in addition to any team drives shared with the user.
Crawl Shared Items	Select to enable crawling of any types of documents shared with the specified user.
JSON Import	Drag the JSON connection file you downloaded while creating Google service account in the form.
Project ID	Open the JSON connection file and copy file contents to Project ID field.
Write Classifications	Select to enable the writing of classifications back to the Google Drive repository. NOTE: Any classifications written to Google Drive are stored in custom properties which are not visible to an end user they are only accessible via the Google Drive APIs.
OCR Processing Mode	Select documents' images processing mode: Disabled – documents' images will not be processed. Default – defaults to the source settings if configuring a path or the global setting if configured on a source. Normal – images are processed with normal quality settings. Enhanced – upscale images further to allow more.
Advanced Settings	Click the "wrench" icon in the Settings area () at the bottom of the screen to expand the following advanced settings: Re-Index Period — specifies how often the source should be checked for changes. The number specifies the period in days. Priority — specifies the priority of content source processing in the service queues. Document Type — can be used to specify a value which can be used to restrict queries when utilizing the core search index.
Source Group	Netwrix recommends creating a dedicated source group for Google Drive.
Pause source on creation	Select if you want to make other configuration changes before collection of the source occurs.