Before we work with your Google Workspace, we must know who you are and be authorized to use them. As you can see, by signing in with Google, you will be prompted to agree to share the basic information of your Google Account and to allow the requested Drive Scope.
"Drive Scope" refers to the level of access or permission an app or service needs to interact with Google Drive on your behalf. Think of it like granting someone access to your home—do they just get to open the front door, or can they access every room? Similarly, Drive Scopes define how much an app can see or do with your Google Drive files.
Drive Scope is categorized into 3 main types: non-sensitive, sensitive, and restricted. Non-sensitive scopes are basic permissions that don’t pose much risk to your privacy or security.
For Employers: We use “https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file” which grants an app permission to see, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app. It cannot see or touch your other files.
For Employees: We use the same scope as Employers and one additional scope “https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets” which grants an app permission to see, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets. This scope will not give access unless we know the exact ID of the spreadsheet. We also cannot query or get all of your spreadsheets in your Drive, as that requires a different Drive Scope. So, for the app to run, Employers must share the spreadsheet ID (or in this context, Attendance ID) with their employees for submitting attendance data.
Detailed features for Employers requiring the given scopes:
- Creating or registering a company, which will create a folder named "AttendDy - by HA Dev" that contains a folder named based on your company name. It also creates a "Company Information" spreadsheet inside it.
- Adding an employee, which creates a dedicated folder for each employee inside your company folder. It also creates two spreadsheets to hold employee information and attendance-related data.
- Viewing all employee attendance data (including Time Off, Reimbursement, and Over Time) and approving employee requests by editing their individual Employee Data spreadsheet.
- Creating payslips, which will create a "Payslip" folder inside the employee folder. It also creates a Payslip file in Google Docs format inside it.
Detailed features for Employees requiring the given scopes:
- Viewing and submitting requests for all attendance data, including Time Off, Reimbursement, and Over Time.
- All upload-related features, including attendance with photo and requests with attachments.
