Google Drive integration

Here's what you can do with a Google Drive integration:

• Save your website's records to Drive – build a website with forms or bookings, and Base44 can export the entries it collects to a file in the Drive your team already shares.
• Send app-generated files to a folder – invoices, certificates or reports your app produces can be uploaded to a Drive folder as they're made.
• Manage your documents from one app – Base44 can build a file-management app that stores the documents it generates in Drive and keeps them organized, so your team finds each one without digging.
• Give a Superagent read-only access – connect a Superagent to Drive with read-only access, so it can work with your files without editing, moving or deleting anything.

Plenty of other files can end up in Drive too. Tell Base44 which file you'd want saved, when and to which folder, and build that flow.

A Drive connection comes together in a few stages, most of them in conversation:

• Name the files and the folder – tell Base44 in chat what should go to Drive and when, for example "save a copy of every invoice to the Billing folder."
• Sign in with the account that owns the folder – approve access to Drive with that Google account; Base44 runs the sign-in flow and keeps the credentials stored.
• Get the upload step – the export, backup or upload step lands in your project with a backend function you can review and edit.
• Run it once and open the folder – trigger the flow yourself and confirm the file name and location before it runs on its own.
• Approve more as your flows grow – when a later flow needs extra permissions, you approve them at that point.

Files land in the Drive your team already searches and shares, so there's no new place to check. If someone on your team downloads a file and re-uploads it every week, build that step before anything else.

Yes. Base44 can add a step to your app that uploads to Drive at the interval you choose, such as every night or every Monday morning. These 4 choices keep the folder easy to use months later:

• Set the timing by who reads it – a nightly backup and a weekly report for the team meeting usually run on different schedules.
• Give each kind of file its own folder – reports, exports and backups kept apart, so nobody digs through backups to find last week's numbers.
• Date every file name – tell Base44 how each file should be named, such as the report type followed by the date, so the newest one is easy to spot.
• Pick the format each file needs – tell Base44 to save reports as PDFs and data exports as spreadsheets, so each file opens the way people expect.

If you're starting from scratch, build an app for the work itself first, then describe to Base44 which of its files should land in Drive and how often.