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Google Drive

A one-click Google connection that lets EOMA create documents in your Drive — and cannot open anything already in it.

#In 10 seconds

• One step, one click. There is no folder to choose and no second window, unlike the other two Google connections.
• EOMA asks for the narrowest Drive permission Google offers: it can only touch files it creates itself. Your existing documents stay invisible to it.
• Today this connection is groundwork. No screen in EOMA writes to your Drive yet — connecting it changes nothing you can see. Skip it until you need it.

#Before you start

• You must be the owner of this brand in EOMA. Everyone else sees "Owner only". See Integrations.
• Any Google account works. Unlike Google Analytics and Search Console, there is no property or verified site to match, so the "wrong account" problem barely applies here — pick the account whose Drive you want documents to land in.
• No plan requirement. Integrations are available on every plan.

#Steps

#1 — Open Settings → Integrations

┌─ Settings ───────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│    Plan & Usage              │  Analytics & Search             │
│    Brand Profile             │  ▮ Google Analytics 4           │
│  ● Integrations       ← here │  ▮ Google Search Console        │
│                              │  ▮ Google Drive       [Connect] │
└──────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

Third card in the Analytics & Search group.

#2 — Click Connect and approve

Your browser leaves EOMA for Google's approval screen, which asks for one thing:

See, edit, create and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app

Read that wording carefully, because it is the whole point of this connection. "Only the specific files you use with this app" means files EOMA creates. A document already sitting in your Drive is not one of them, and EOMA cannot list it, open it or change it. There is no broader Drive permission behind this one.

Approve, and Google returns you to Settings → Integrations.

#3 — Confirm the card

That is the entire flow. There is no folder picker and nothing to select.

Google Drive              Connected            Disconnect

If it says anything else, see the table at the bottom.

#What you'll see

#The card, before you connect

The provider name and a Connect button.

#The card, once connected

The word Connected and a Disconnect. There is no name, count or folder beside it, because this connection has nothing to point at — it is permission to write into a Drive, not a link to one particular place in it.

#"Owner only"

Shown instead of any button when your role on this brand is not owner.

#What changes elsewhere in EOMA

Almost nothing, and this is worth being straight about. Connecting Drive today has one visible effect: when EOMA's agent works on your brand, "Google Drive" appears in its list of connected services, so it knows the option exists.

No screen in EOMA currently writes a document to your Drive. The ability to create one is built and tested on our side, and nothing in the product calls it yet. If you connect Drive expecting reports or drafts to start appearing in it, they will not. Connect it when a feature asks you to; there is no benefit to connecting it early, and no harm in disconnecting it.

For taking work out of EOMA today, use the download and copy options on an action's result instead. See Actions.

#Reading the numbers

There is no number on this card, and that is the honest state. Every other connection here counts something — properties, a site, a repository — because something in EOMA reads it. Drive has nothing to count yet.

"Connected" means only that the permission is stored. It does not mean anything has been written, or ever will be until a feature uses it. Treat the word as "approved", not as "working".

One email per disconnection. If the Google authorisation later breaks, EOMA emails the brand owner once — not once per attempt. Reconnecting resets it, so a future break notifies you again.

#When it goes wrong

#Related

• Integrations — every connection in one place
• Actions — where finished work is downloaded or copied today
• Google Analytics 4 — the Google connection that does feed a screen