Well, the 'writer' role is actually a collaborator. Since this is the behavior of docs.google.com (frontend), I would suspect implementing this differently in the API is nontrivial.
That being said, features are driven by our developers' requests. Please file a feature request: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/entry Eric On Jan 15, 12:48 am, Daniel Marashlian <[email protected]> wrote: > is there a way to have your team make that possible through the API? > this is a CRITICAL issue for us while doing the google docs > integration. because the permissions will be managed by our app, not > the user. > > please let me know, > thanks for the help Eric, > Daniel > > On Jan 14, 3:56 pm, "Eric (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There's no way to turn that off using the API, especially since > > that's the behavior in docs.google.com. > > > Eric > > > On Jan 14, 12:43 am, Daniel Marashlian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Eric, > > > > This is great an all for restricting the read/write mode to the > > > collaborators... though if you set a user to writer, they can still go > > > into the share page, and invite other users. Is there a way to turn > > > this off on the document from the API? > > > > On Nov 19 2008, 1:15 am, "Eric (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 17, 10:26 pm, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > In Google Docs on a Document, I can go to the Share Page on a > > > > > Document, and access the Advanced permissions. There are 2 options. > > > > > > 1. Collaborators may invite others > > > > > 2. Invitations may be used by anyone > > > > > > Is there a way to either check or uncheck those from the API? > > > > > #1 can be done since the ACLs feed can be used to set permissions > > > > for other users. Use <gAcl:role value='writer' /> for > > > > collaborators:http://code.google.com/apis/documents/developers_guide_protocol.html#... > > > > > #2 is not something the API supports. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Eric > > > > > > I use the .NET C# API by the way. > > > > > > thanks!!! > > > > > > Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Docs Data APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
