Dear HarmonySite administrator,
Last November we released a very cool feature for your Song Library - the ability to simply embed into a song's page an existing Dropbox folder full of song files (PDF sheet music, MP3 learning tracks, etc). This relieved you of the burden of manually uploading each file to each song's page (as long as you had your files organised nicely in Dropbox).
As soon as we released it, several of you asked if we had the same thing for Google Drive. The answer was, at the time, no. Google didn't offer such a thing. But now it IS possible. So that's now been integrated into your HarmonySite...
If you have a folder in your Google Drive containing the song files (PDF, MP3, etc) for ONE song, then you can easily and simply embed that folder into the song's page in your HarmonySite. When it's embedded in the page, it will look something like this...
This means that you would no longer need to "attach" files to each song in your HarmonySite, which usually means uploading the files from your own computer, either one by one or one set of learning tracks at a time. Instead, you would simply do the following...
- Log into Google Drive
- Right-click the folder in question
- Select the "Share" option
- In the "Share" pop-up, in the "General access" section, pull down the list with the heading "Restricted", and select "Anyone with the link"
- Click the "Copy link" button
- Click the "Done" button
- Logged into your HarmonySite as an administrator, visit the song's page, and click the "Update" button
- Paste the link into the "Google Drive Folder Share URL" box. The link will look something like this:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY_abcdefghij?usp=sharing - Save your changes.
That's it! Not only is this easy and quick, it doesn't use up any of your HarmonySite account's 1000 Meg space allowance!
All files can be opened, viewed, played directly from the new embedded box on the song's page.
The only downside to this new feature is that you can't track which of your members have downloaded each Google Drive file.
You can still use the existing HarmonySite feature for uploading files and resources, especially if the "resource" you want to attach to the song is a YouTube video. And all files that have been uploaded to a song will still be accessible to your members in the normal way. In other words, this new system does not affect anything at all - except giving you ANOTHER option for providing a song's files to your members.
Enjoy!
In harmony,
Mark Virtue
HarmonySite
Australia
+61 2 8005 4277 (Australian number)
In North America, call: 1-415-651-7009 (San Francisco number)
Skype name: mvirtue
