Google Workspace add-on for Google Drive notifications

Abstract

This project was designed to help collaborative teams receive timely notifications on changes that occur on shared resources. The end product of this project is a Google Workspace add-on that allows email messages to be sent when a Google Drive file is changed. Other services provide this feature are known as integration tools. Some such services are Zapier, Automate.io, Integromat. The issues with such tools are that they cost money the more they are used, having a large amount of files or folders in a cloud service like Google Drive will take more resources from the integration tool to track all of them, and notifications are not timely depending on how important instant notifications are to a user. The product of this project allows for instant notifications and for many files and folders, even if they are multiple folders deep, all while only taking up resources enough to contain information on the top-level folder or file.