I really like this module, however I need my PDFs to act under the private file system. I am posting to ask how the process would have to be, if at all possible, to allow a logged in user (that has access to the private files) to show private documents with this module?

I understand exactly why it doesnt work right now: Google Docs is not a user, and therefore cannot have access to a private file system. It is also no possible to run Google Docs locally on a drupal site. I was thinking then, that, if a user is logged into Google with the same session as your drupal site (such as through openID maybe?) , is it possible to grant access to the private files at that point?

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Yuri commented

I have done this in the past, and it actually works as you say, when you share a google document or google drive folder with other users, they are able to access those, and that is an alternative 'private file system' based on the google privacy and sharing feature. I used to just create a iframe in the body field, I even created a custom field that build the iframe code around the direct file url so that the user only has to copy past the document url in the field, voila. It would be great to have such feature available in this module out of the box.

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)
Related issues: +#3158191: Allow the use of publicly-accessible files from the private filesystem

Dupe of #3158191: Allow the use of publicly-accessible files from the private filesystem.