Detailed Google Scope Justification

Introduction

The wallboard is an all-in-one digital signage solution, where registered users can create their own digital signage content using the web-based editor. Cloud integration feature lets wallboard registered users connect their Google account to the wallboard, so they can display the following in their signage contents:

Images and videos (via Google Drive)
Calendar information (via Google Calendar)
Customer data (via Google Spreadsheets)

Wallboard 2.11

Requires /auth/calendar.readonly scope to fetch information about the user’s calendar to display that on a Digital Signage and/or touch capable screens. (example: Meeting Room solution)
Requires /auth/calendar.events scope to read, create, modify and delete events from the user’s calendar to let Wallboard (users) manipulate them on Digital Signage and/or touch capable screens. (example: Meeting Room solution)
- A narrower scope would not be sufficient, because Wallboard needs write access as well as read so that users can schedule, delete and modify meetings at their meeting rooms.
Requires /auth/drive.metadata.readonly scope to retrieve information of the user’s Google Drive storage to let the user select their own folders and files that they want to synchronize to Wallboard and display on Digital Signage displays.
Requires /auth/drive.readonly scope to fetch files from the user’s Google Drive storage to let Wallboard to synchronize them to the user's storage space on Wallboard and display synced files on Digital Signage screens. Wallboard file synchronization is strictly one way, Wallboard does not create, edit or delete the user files on Google Drive. When files are deleted from the user’s Google drive, Wallboard will also delete the copy of them.
Requires /auth/spreadsheets.readonly scope to fetch user's Google Spreadsheets to display that on Digital Signage screens.

Wallboard 2.10

Requires /auth/calendar.readonly scope to fetch information about the user’s calendar to display that on a Digital Signage and/or touch capable screens. (example: Meeting Room solution)
Requires /auth/calendar.events scope to read, create, modify and delete events from the user’s calendar to let Wallboard (users) manipulate them on Digital Signage and/or touch capable screens. (example: Meeting Room solution)
- A narrower scope would not be sufficient, because Wallboard needs write access as well as read so that users can schedule, delete and modify meetings at their meeting rooms.
Requires /auth/drive.metadata.readonly scope to retrieve information of the user’s Google Drive storage to let the user select their own folders and files that they want to synchronize to Wallboard and display on Digital Signage displays.
Requires /auth/drive.readonly scope to fetch files from the user’s Google Drive storage to let Wallboard to synchronize them to the user's storage space on Wallboard and display synced files on Digital Signage screens. Wallboard file synchronization is strictly one way, Wallboard does not create, edit or delete the user files on Google Drive. When files are deleted from the user’s Google drive, Wallboard will also delete the copy of them.
Requires /auth/spreadsheets scope to create Google Spreadsheets, so that Wallboard can help users by creating a new template spreadsheet and navigating their browser to it.
- A narrower scope would not be sufficient, because Wallboard needs write access to create these template spreadsheets.