Google Chat steps

1. To add a Google step to your flow, go to the Apps panel in the palette, expand the Google section, and drag the step onto the canvas.
2. Connect the step to the previous step in the flow so you have access to the properties and outputs of previous steps when configuring this step's inputs.
3. Double-click the step to edit it, and use the Setup tab to configure the inputs. You can use plain text and input variables (or both). See the sections below for detailed information on the inputs for the step.
4. On the Endpoint tab, click Add Endpoint.
5. Type a Name to reference the endpoint from within the step.
6. Paste the webhook URL from your Google Chat space into the Base URL field.
7. Click Save.

1. In your Google Cloud project, enable the Google API.
2. Once the API is enabled, create Google API OAuth Credentials.
   • You'll need the Client ID and Client Secret to configure Flow Designer, so ensure you save those to an easy-to-find location.
3. Gather the scope permissions required for the step you want to use.
   • For the Post Text Message step, you'll need the following two scope permissions: 
     • To find the chat space: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.readonly
     • To post the message to the chat space: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.messages.create
   • For the Create Chat Space step, you'll need the following scope permission: 
     • To create the chat space: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.spaces.create

Once the Google configuration steps are complete, configure the Flow Designer endpoint.

1. In Flow Designer, open the workflow you want to connect to Google.
2. Go to the Flow Designer tab.
3. Click the name of the canvas you want to create or edit flows for (or Create Flow Canvas if you don't have one yet).
4. Open the Components menu in the top right corner and select Endpoints.
5. Click Add Endpoint.
6. Fill in the following fields: 
   • Name: give the endpoint a unique name, such as “Google” or “Google API”.
   • Base URL: https://chat.googleapis.com
   • Trust self-signed certificates: leave the checkbox disabled.
   • Endpoint Type: select OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code)
   • Authorization URL: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline
   • Access Token URL: https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
   • Client ID: enter the Client ID from the Google OAuth credentials you created.
   • Client Secret: enter the Client Secret from the Google OAuth credentials you created.
   • Token Prefix: leave this field as Bearer.
   • Endpoint Scope: enter the Google API endpoints scope. Separate multiple scopes with a space.
7. Click Connect. A Google login page will open in a new browser window or tab.
8. Log in using the Google user account you want to use to authenticate your workflow.

   Google only provides a refresh token on consent, so to connect to the Google API from different workflows you have two options: 

   • Create Google OAuth Credentials for each workflow.
   • Log in to the endpoint for each workflow with a different Google user account.

9. On the Endpoints page in Flow Designer, click Save.

Inputs

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Outputs

Inputs

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Outputs

Inputs

Inputs with an asterisk* are required.

Outputs