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Google is changing their various Google Drive products to a new format.
They say "they will migrate all docs in the 2014-2015 timeframe". So it
could be tomorrow, could be in a year's time.
The old Drive format allowed for having restricted access set on a doc, and
still be able to get the doc's data via a simple http call (which could be
done from a QV load script).
In the new format only docs visible to everyone can be accessed that way
(just like you had also found out).
If you set access restrictions on a doc, for example sharing it with
certain people, or maybe with everyone in your organisation (if you have
Google docs for organisations), then the "old" way of retrieving the data
from QV's load script does no longer work.
The only way seems to be using Google's APIs to get the data.
Which is somewhat of a pain if you do it yourself... Lot's of API calls,
OAuth and similar things that needs to be taken care of.
QVSource, while being an add-on that cost money, does handle all that work
for you - and it has worked flawlessly for us so far, in this very scenario.
It would of course be nice if Google would enable the old way of geting
data from docs also in the new Drive file formats. Might be hard though, if
they made the change to improve security etc. The old way of retrieving
data was pretty insecure...
/Göran
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