Automations: Upload file/folder to Google Drive should have folder hierarchy, exclude synced computers, and include workspace shared drive
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Claire Albrecht
Great to have an automation option to upload a file to Google Drive, however I have both a personal Drive linked and the shared drive for my workspace, and I am not able to select the shared drive for upload (or folder creation). It would be great to see the feature extended to a workspace shared drive.
For the current feature, a few issues:
a) Folders are presented as a single undifferentiated list with no nesting or indentation to indicate where they sit in the folder tree. With any reasonably organised Drive it's impossible to distinguish a top-level folder from a deeply nested subfolder of the same name.
b) The list appears to include folders from the "Computers" section of Google Drive (i.e. folders synced from local machines via Drive for Desktop), alongside regular My Drive folders. These are fundamentally different things and there's no way to tell them apart in the current UI.
c) It's currently not possible to a) create a folder with the task name, THEN b) upload a file to that folder. You can create a folder, you can upload a file, but you can't link those two processes. This is, I think, an essential part of the process, otherwise what's the point of creating a folder?
Thanks!
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