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This document lists the events and parameters for
Drive Settings
Admin Audit activity events. You can retrieve these events by
calling Activities.list()
with applicationName=admin.
Drive Settings
Events of this type are returned with type=DOCS_SETTINGS.
Document Ownership Change
Event details
Event name
TRANSFER_DOCUMENT_OWNERSHIP
Parameters
DOMAIN_NAME
string
The primary domain name.
NEW_VALUE
string
The email address of the new owner of the file.
USER_EMAIL
string
The email address of the original owner of the file.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=TRANSFER_DOCUMENT_OWNERSHIP&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
Owner of documents changed from {USER_EMAIL} to {NEW_VALUE}
Drive and Docs org branding provisioning initiated
Event details
Event name
DOCS_ORG_BRANDING_PROVISIONING
Parameters
ORG_BRANDING_PROVISIONING_STATUS
string
The response status for org branding provisioning.
Possible values:
FAILURE Failure response status value.
SUCCESS Successful response status value.
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL
string
Email address of the customer service account.
SHARED_DRIVE_NAME
string
Shared drive name.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=DOCS_ORG_BRANDING_PROVISIONING&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
Organizational branding provisioning initiated for account {SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL} and shared drive {SHARED_DRIVE_NAME} with status {ORG_BRANDING_PROVISIONING_STATUS}
Drive and Docs org branding upload attempt
Event details
Event name
DOCS_ORG_BRANDING_UPLOAD
Parameters
DOCUMENT_ID
string
Document ID.
ORG_BRANDING_EDITOR_TYPE
string
The editor type of the uploaded document.
Possible values:
FORMS The type of document is Forms.
SITES THe type of document is Sites.
SLIDES The type of document is Slides.
ORG_BRANDING_UPLOAD_STATUS
string
The response status for org branding document upload.
Possible values:
FAILURE Failure response status value.
SUCCESS Successful response status value.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=DOCS_ORG_BRANDING_UPLOAD&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
Organizational branding document upload attempted for document {DOCUMENT_ID} in editor {ORG_BRANDING_EDITOR_TYPE} with status {ORG_BRANDING_UPLOAD_STATUS}
Drive Data Restore
Event details
Event name
DRIVE_DATA_RESTORE
Parameters
BEGIN_DATE_TIME
string
Begin date and time.
END_DATE_TIME
string
End date and time.
USER_EMAIL
string
The user's primary email address.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=DRIVE_DATA_RESTORE&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
Drive data restoration initiated for {USER_EMAIL}
Drive Setting Change
Event details
Event name
CHANGE_DOCS_SETTING
Parameters
DOMAIN_NAME
string
The primary domain name of the organization where the setting was applied. Only returned for settings that are organization-wide. For settings that can be applied at to specific OUs, ORG_UNIT_NAME will be returned instead.
GROUP_EMAIL
string
The group's primary email address.
NEW_VALUE
string
The new value of the setting. The special value INHERIT_FROM_PARENT may be returned for settings that can be applied to a specific OU, and indicates that the OU should inherited its value from its parent OU.
OLD_VALUE
string
The old value of the setting. The special value INHERIT_FROM_PARENT may be returned for settings that can be applied to a specific OU, and indicates that the OU should inherited its value from its parent OU.
ORG_UNIT_NAME
string
The organizational unit (OU) name (path) where the setting was applied, or the primary domain name if the setting was applied to the entire organization. Only returned for settings that can be applied to specific OUs. For organization-wide settings, DOMAIN_NAME will be returned instead.
SETTING_NAME
string
The unique name (ID) of the setting that was changed.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=CHANGE_DOCS_SETTING&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
{SETTING_NAME} for Drive changed from {OLD_VALUE} to {NEW_VALUE}
Shared Drive Moved
Event details
Event name
MOVE_SHARED_DRIVE_TO_ORG_UNIT
Parameters
NEW_VALUE
string
The new SETTING_NAME value that was set during this event.
ORG_UNIT_NAME
string
The organizational unit (OU) name (path).
SHARED_DRIVE_ID
string
Shared drive id.
Sample request
GET https://admin.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/admin?eventName=MOVE_SHARED_DRIVE_TO_ORG_UNIT&maxResults=10&access_token=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Admin Console message format
Shared drive {SHARED_DRIVE_ID} moved from {ORG_UNIT_NAME} to {NEW_VALUE}
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