Access to more than one Google Drive account

Vadim K

I am logged in to Smartsheet using my business email. On Google, I have 4 distinct Google accounts with separate Google Drives - for a personal gmail address, for this business email, and for 2 other business emails belonging to 2 my other engagements.

I allowed Smartsheet to access to my Google account. The SS did not ask to which one and connected to one associated with my SS email.

I wonder how it would work if I did not have Google account for my business email (in fact, I set it up just few weeks ago for unrelated reasons).

But outside of the curious wonder, I actually need to attach files from either of these 4 accounts - for some projects I can use my primary business email, but for others files will be located at other Google drives. My associates face the same need.

Inter-account file sharing (between different my accounts in Google) is not always an option - especially in cases when sharing initiated by clients associated with either of engagements above.

So the question is, without revoking access to SS from my Google account 2 (associated with the same email as SS login) how can I attach files from my other Google accounts?

Genevieve P.

Hi @Vadim K

Since you are using a Google account to access Smartsheet, the default is to use this as the Google account to attach files from.

If you don’t use a Google address in Smartsheet, a pop-up window will appear enabling you to login to a Google account first.

See: Attach a File or Link From an Online Resource

However one Smartsheet account can only be associated with one Google account to attach files at a time. If you need to access multiple accounts, you could create free collaborator Smartsheet accounts with these other email addresses (and share these collaborators to the sheet), or you could put a URL in the grid of the sheet instead of attaching the item to the row.

Cheers,

Genevieve