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Share a Google Doc and Notify Collaborators

by googleworkspace/cli

Share a Google Docs document with edit access and email collaborators the link.

Skill content

Share a Google Doc with collaborators and send them notification emails.

- Combines three Google Workspace skills (Drive, Docs, Gmail) to locate documents, grant editor access, and notify recipients in sequence

- Automates the workflow of finding docs by name, adding collaborators with write permissions, and emailing them the share link

- Requires gws-drive, gws-docs, and gws-gmail skills to be loaded before execution

Share a Google Doc and Notify Collaborators

PREREQUISITE: Load the following skills to execute this recipe: gws-drive, gws-docs, gws-gmail

Share a Google Docs document with edit access and email collaborators the link.

Steps

- Find the doc: gws drive files list --params '{"q": "name contains '\''Project Brief'\'' and mimeType = '\''application/vnd.google-apps.document'\''"}'

- Share with editor access: gws drive permissions create --params '{"fileId": "DOC_ID"}' --json '{"role": "writer", "type": "user", "emailAddress": "[email protected]"}'

- Email the link: gws gmail +send --to [email protected] --subject 'Please review: Project Brief' --body 'I have shared the project brief with you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOC_ID'