How to add a Google Drive folder to “My Drive” section to other users

Question

I have a Google Drive herarchichal folder and subfolders structure owned by me and I want to add it to the \"My Drive\" section in all users in our Google Apps for Business

Answer 1

First, set up a simple web app. The Google App Script editor even has a template that gets you most of the way there.

Second, implement something like the following and call it from the handler function.

function addRequiredFolders() {
  var root = DocsList.getRootFolder();
  var folderIds = ["somefolderid", "anotherfolderid"];
  folderIds.map( function(id) { DocsList.getFolderById(id).addToFolder(root) } );
}

I've tested a variant of this up to this point. The next step is to publish the Web App for your domain, and email it out to people or otherwise distribute it. I assume they will have the unpleasant step of needing to grant the web app permission to access their documents.