Import from Google Sheets

You can synchronise Ontime to a Google Sheet.
This is ideal for collaboration or extensive data manipulation.

Follow here to see the Google Sheet from the screenshot To enable this feature, you will to need provide Ontime with the necessary permissions.
From there, we can read and write to the Google Sheet spreadsheet.

Prerequisites

To use the Google Sheet integration, you will a Google account and to the Google Console.
The machine running Ontime must have access to the internet.

1. Create project

   Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and create a new project

   

   On the front page select the newly created project

   

2. Enable the Sheet API

   Click enable APIs and Services

   

   … and search for Sheets

   

3. Setup consent screen

   Back on the APIs and Services to set up a OAuth consent screen

   

   Add necessary scopes

   The first step depends very much on how your organization is set up but it should make sense by reading through the options If you are unsure select external and only fill out the required fields

   When thats done click “ADD OR REMOVE SCOPES”

   

   Filter for sheets, add “/auth/spreadsheets” and click update

   

   Click save and continue

   For “Test users” add the email(s) the will be using this.
   Save and go back to the dashboard

4. Create credentials

   Go to Credentials

   

   Click Create Credentials and select OAuth client ID

   

   For Application type select TVs and Limited input device, give it a name and click create

   

   Download the result, we are now done with the Google console

   

5. Connect Ontime

   Go to the sheet sync settings

   

   Upload the file we have downloaded from Google console

   

   Get the sheet ID, paste it in Ontime and click connect

   

   Copy the code and click authenticate and follow the instructions from Google