NOTE: If you are not a Google Apps admin, you can use the steps below to add Gmail accounts manually, as long as you can authorize the Gmail accounts you add. Here is the step-by-step procedure on how to add two Gmail accounts to cloudHQ. Let’s assume that you want to add two Gmail accounts first@gmail.com […]
Misc Instructions
How to make Amazon S3 bucket public
You can make a particular Amazon S3 bucket public by following these steps: NOTE: You must have a cloudHQ business plan to sync Amazon S3 using cloudHQ. Sign into Amazon S3 and go to the Amazon S3 Management Console. Select the bucket from the left. Click the “Properties” button on the right: Go to the […]
How to add multiple OneDrive accounts
Here is the procedure for how to add two (or more) OneDrive accounts to cloudHQ: Go to the Cloud Accounts tab: Open a separate tab in your web browser: In the new tab, log into your first OneDrive account (i.e., as user user1_joe@hotmail.com): Go back to the browser tab with cloudHQ and click the Cloud […]
How to enable cloudHQ (third-party application) in Box Enterprise / Box Business
Here are short instructions for how to enable cloudHQ or any third-party applications in Box Enterprise: Login to box.com as a Box administrator. Go to https://app.box.com/master/settings. Click on the Apps in left panel (app.box.com/master/settings/apps. Scroll down to Global App Setting and ensure that Disable published third party apps by default in not checked: If you […]
How to remove the “Import Other Cloud” Button in Google Drive
Note: We are working on an improvement to our new Chrome extension which should address this. As of now, here is a short workaround using StyleBot: Install StyleBot https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en. After StyleBot is installed, go to: chrome-extension://oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha/options/index.html. Click “Backup” -> “Import Styles”: Enter the following text: {“drive.google.com”:{“_enabled”:true,”_rules”:{“div.a-va-Qe:nth-of-type(2)”:{“display”:”none”}}}} Click “Import”:
How cloudHQ supports Basecamp categories
cloudHQ now represents Basecamp file categories as folders under the Files folder, while Basecamp message categories are represented as folders under the Messages folder. Here is an example of the Basecamp project structure: For example, Basecamp files that have the Basecamp category “Agendas” will be in the folder ProjectName/Files/Agendas/. So when this project is synced […]
What is Google Docs format?
When you open Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Drawing, it will launch in a new tab or window in your default browser as long as you have an internet connection. All Google Docs documents and sheets are actually not documents at all: these documents exist only on Google’s servers. There is no “google docs format.” The […]
How to turn on user consent for applications using Office 365
The user consent flow is implemented by default for Office 365 organizations, but an administrator can change this default to prevent end-users from installing applications. If the user consent is turned off, problems like this can occur when trying to connect to cloudHQ: How to turn on user consent in Office365: Get the Windows […]
How to authorize access to Office 365 SharePoint sites collections
When you authorize Office 365 SharePoint with cloudHQ, you might notice that some of your sites do not show up or sync is running into permission issues. This is because, even if you use the admin account to authorize SharePoint with cloudHQ, the admin user might not have access to all sites still needs to […]
IT Admin: How to configure impersonation for Office 365 OneDrive Business
By default, Office 365 is set up in such a way that the admin has no access to user files stored in users’ Office 365 OneDrive Business accounts. So in order to allow Office 365 admin to sync or backup users’ Office365 OneDrive Business accounts, you will need to configure Office 365 Sharepoint to allow […]