Is there a way to check wether an user has used hangout before via API? I need it to build a report and promoting hangout within the organisations.
No, there is no API that tracks this.
Depending on your exact needs, you might be able to run an organizational hangout app when they start it, triggered by the start button, which would report they're using the app... but this isn't foolproof (it would ignore hangouts started via calendar, for example).
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I'm planning to build a custom application for Ms Teams and I wanted the app to have an 'Administration' context, reserved for some users, with charts and records management that the rest of the users wouldn't be able to see. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Is it possible to hide tabs depending on a user profile? Is there another way to accomplish this on teams?
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Inside your tab you can do whatever you want - it's just a custom web app/page. The only "restriction" aside from a normal web app, is that it must implement the Teams javascript library - see here for more. However, once you've implemented that library, you can get the Teams context, which includes the user's Azure AD Id and also UPN, and you could use one or both of those to do a lookup against your database, determine the user's role, and show/hide UI elements accordingly.
However, I think you might be asking about whether the entire Tab -itself- (i.e. even the tab item inside the Teams client) can be hidden from other users. To do this, an option is to use a "private channel", just for the relevant users, and pin the tab inside there only.
What I want to build:
I want to build a website where users can connect their google calendars (this will use Google Calendar API's)
and view their calendar events, as well as edit them, and create new ones.
My problem:
In order to do so, google says my app needs to be verified, which can take weeks, and I also need to set up terms of services pages, privacy policy pages
I also need to supply authorised javascript origins which MUST start with https, which of course is a problem during development, since my origin is http://localhost
I also need to set up support emails and homepage link
Question
I just want to start building my application without having to set up a whole production-ready website eco system.
Is there anyway I can use these Google Calendar APIs for editing/creating calendar events locally, without having to set up everything mentioned above first?
Unverified apps can still be used by the developer who created the project on google developer console.
Unverified app screen
The app or script might display an "unverified app" screen before it displays the consent screen. This is based on the specific scopes that your app includes in the request.
You can still work on your app while you are going though the verification process. However that being said i would start that process asap it can take a long time to get verified.
Yes, you can. As far as I am able to tell, all the verification step does is remove the "unverified app" screen. As long as you click Advanced > Go To ... (unsafe), you should be able to create and edit calendar events for that user in your application.
In order to be able to create and edit calendar events, you need to use the most sensitive scope, which is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar. I couldn't figure out how to edit and create calendar events in my web app until I changed my scope from calendar.events to calendar.
Creating Events: https://developers.google.com/calendar/create-events
I am using the Google Calendar API V3 to share Google calendars by managing the ACL Permissions. Many of my customers do not want an email notification when a new calendar is shared with them. Is there a way to disable that?
To explain bette what I am looking for: I also use the Google drive API v2 and that API addresses the issue by providing a sendNotificationEmails parameter that you can set to False when sharing a Google document (see this). I am looking for something similar.
Based from this documentation, you need to set sendNotifications to false so invitee didn't get the notification about the invitation even though invitee's calendar UI has New events setting to "true".
Check this example.
I don't believe this is currently possible. Sharing a calendar involves adding an ACL for a given user/group, and the notification email is generated upon adding the ACL. There does not appear to be any way to suppress the notification email. Even if you could, if you are sharing with a group, the individual users must click a link to add the calendar to their Calendar app.
I have put in a group of feature requests through the Calendar forum that would make this process easier. While it is aimed at the front end of the calendar application, I'm hoping they would add corresponding options to the APIs.
I am trying to integrate Google Hangout API into my website.
The user wants to:
Create a hangout
Copy that URL
Save that URL in our site
Display information about hangout
I know that I can get the information I need using: https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/activities/{activityId}
What I am struggling with is getting the activity id.
The only solution I see is:
First somehow find the userid /plus/v1/people?query
Then list the activities for that person /plus/v1/people/00000/activities/ and match the url
Then call /plus/v1/activities/
There as to be an easier way surely!
I think the easier solution would be to go a different route entirely. Instead of trying to get the hangout information via the Google+ post/activity, create a Hangout App that sends the URL for the hangout to your server. Under this scenario, the steps would be one of the two following scenarios.
Simple way:
User starts a hangout video chat from your website
The website link to create it also includes the gid of an app to start when the video chat starts
The app sends a message to your website indicating the URL of the hangout that was started
Alternate way:
User starts a hangout however they want to
When they're ready to tell your website, they run the same app
The app sends a message to your website indicating the URL of the hangout
Depending on your needs, you can then have the app do other things associated with monitoring the hangout is still alive, the number of people, etc. Your website would then display the information it receives using whatever format you wish.
You can find out more about this method in the video How do I Include a Hangout on my Website?
I have been working on a web app that, among other things, allows users to communicate with each other using Google+ Hangout.
The web app initiates the hangout and passes the Hangout URL to other potential participants. During the Hangout sessions the Hangout app sends information back to the server (using Ajax) on several events such as “onParticipantsAdded", "onParticipantsRemoved" etc.
I am trying to find out a way to notify the web app when the Hangout is over. The other events I mentioned (such as onParticipantsRemoved) will not work once the last participant leaves.
Currently I am sending a “heartbeat” from the hangout to the web app every few minutes, but I am wondering if there is a better way to know when the Hangout ends?
Since the hangout operates inside a window, you might be able to catch the onclose event for that window, but best practice is to rely on a heartbeat, as you've described.