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How to Setup the Dropbox Dash Connector for Google Calendar

Overview

Users can connect their Google Calendar account to Dropbox Dash, allowing them to access and search all of their Google Calendar content directly within Dash. This integration requires OAuth authentication to ensure that Dash only retrieves information relevant to the user’s data, giving them full control over what Dash can access. Dash strictly adheres to the OAuth model, meaning it only accesses the data users specifically permit.

Users can only connect to Dash if the integration has been approved and enabled by their Dash admin.

Team members must authorize access for Dash to connect.

Integration features

For Google Calendar, Dash will capture the following details:

Items
How Dash uses the items
Events
Calendar events for Google Calendar. Dash gathers basic event information such as date, event title, location, and attendee list to power event search and the calendar widget.
Contacts
Contact information managed in Google Calendar. Dash gathers basic contact information such as the contact name, email, and profile image to enhance email and calendar search capabilities.

API usage

When connecting Google Calendar with Dropbox Dash, Dash will request the following authorizations:

Authorization request
Purpose of the request
View and edit events
Allows Dash to access calendar events. This enables Dash to search your calendar events.
View and download any calendar you have access to
Allows Dash to access all the calendars you have access to. This enables Dash to search through all the calendars you have access to.

Crawling strategy and performance

  • Content sync begins immediately after establishing a connection, to ensure you can start searching right away, prioritizing the most relevant data.
    • “Recent/latest items" refer to content that a user has interacted with through actions such as preview, upload, create, comment, open, modify/update, share, and shared-with-me.
  • Incremental sync occurs every 15 min.

User requirements

The user must have a Google Calendar account to connect to.

How to connect Google Calendar to Dropbox Dash

  1. Open Dropbox Dash.
  2. Click Apps near the bottom of the left sidebar.
  1. Scroll down to the section All and find the Google Calendar app.
  2. Click the “+” (plus symbol) on the right to connect the app.
  3. You’ll be prompted to sign in to your Google account. Enter your login credentials, or select an account to connect to Dash.
  1. Click Continue to sign in to Dropbox Dash.
  1. You’ll be presented with the permissions required by Dash. Click Allow to continue.
  1. If the connection’s successful, you’ll see a message at the bottom of the page, confirming that Google Calendar was connected.

Connected apps

  1. To check your connected apps, open Dropbox Dash.
  2. Click Apps near the bottom of the left sidebar. You should now see Google Calendar under the Added section.
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