Check permissions action in Google Drive

The Check permissions action enables you to check permissions for a file or folder on Google Drive and returns read, write, or delete to a list variable.

Settings

Checks for a file or folder permissions and returns read, write, or delete to a list variable.

  • Enter the same username that you provided in the Connect action.
  • Select whether to check permissions for a file or a folder. Select File or Folder and enter the name and path to the file or folder. To check the permissions of files shared with you in Google Drive, select File ID to enter the file id. You can extract the file id from the URL of the file name and enter it in the File ID field.
    Note: If you select the File ID option, the user with a Commenter role with the write access will observe that the bot does not check the write permission and returns the value as false.
  • To check the various kinds of permissions, select Read, Write, or Delete. This returns read, write, or delete to a Boolean variable.
  • Select or create a Boolean variable to hold the permissions.