Google Drive action - Update file permission

This action updates a permission associated with a given file in Google Drive. Permissions are useful to transfer file ownership or to share a file with specific users, groups, or domains, or to make it accessible to anyone.

Google Drive Update file permission action

Input fields

Field name	Description
File	The file with the permission you plan to update. Select a file or enter its ID. To find the file ID, right-click the file and select Share > Copy link. For example, if the URL is https://drive.google.com/file/d/123nyR2IjW_Rq84d3qEYRoq1/view, the file ID is 123nyR2IjW_Rq84d3qEYRoq1. Alternatively, you can find the file ID in the output of other Google Drive triggers and actions.
Permission	The permission you plan to update. Select a permission or enter its ID. The permission ID can be obtained from the List permissions action.
Role	The role granted by this permission. Select a role or use a custom value. Allowed role values are owner, organizer, fileOrganizer, writer, commenter, reader.
Use domain admin access?	Issues the request as a domain administrator, if the connected user is the admin of the domain owning a shared drive. This setting allows the domain admin to set permissions for shared drive files (opens new window) owned by their domain even if they aren't a member of the given shared drive. Default is set to No.
Transfer ownership	Transfer ownership of the file to the user email provided. The file must have been shared with the user and the Role must be set to owner. Defaults to No.
Remove expiration	Whether to remove the expiration date.

Output fields

Kind

The kind of resource this is: drive#permission.

Type

The type of grantee: user, group, domain, or anyone.

Permission ID

The ID of this permission.

Email address

The email address of the user or group that was granted this permission.

Domain

The domain this permission refers to.

Role

The role granted by this permission.

View

The view for this permission.

Allow file discovery

Whether this permission allows the file to be discovered through search. This is only applicable to permissions granted to domain or anyone.

Display name

The human-readable name for the permission grantee. user: User's full name. group: Name of the Google Group. Domain: Domain owning the shared drive. Not applicable to the type anyone.

Photo link

A link to the user's profile photo, if available.

Team Drive permission details

A list of permission details for the Team Drive. Contains the following output fields, in addition to List size and List index:

Team Drive permission type

The permission type for this user. Only applies to Team Drives.

Role

The primary role for this user. Only applies to Team Drives.

Inherited from

The ID of the item from which this permission is inherited. Only applies to Team Drives.

Inherited

Whether this permission is inherited. Only applies to Team Drives.

Permission details

A list of permission details for the shared drive. Contains the following output fields, in addition to List size and List index:

Permission type

The permission type for this user. Only applies to Shared drives.

Role

The primary role for this user. Only applies to Shared drives.

Inherited from

The ID of the item from which this permission is inherited. Only applies to Shared drives.

Inherited

Whether this permission is inherited. Only applies to Shared drives.

Deleted

Whether the account associated with this permission has been deleted. This field only applies to user and group permissions.