{"id":1566,"date":"2022-02-02T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1566"},"modified":"2022-02-15T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T17:23:33","password":"","slug":"who-read-what-google-drive-gdrive-document-and-when","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/who-read-what-google-drive-gdrive-document-and-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Read What Google Drive Document and When?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\r\n<p>GAT+ Audit provides a great in-depth view of all the events that are happening in the Domain level Drive files <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question of <strong>who reads<\/strong> what Drive file and <strong>when<\/strong> comes up often and GAT makes it really easy to get the detailed answers you&#8217;re looking for.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<h3>Apply search<\/h3>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s how you can find this:<\/span> Navigate to <strong>GAT+ \u2192 Drive \u2192 Events<\/strong> \u2192 <strong>Apply custom filter<\/strong> A pop-up window with search parameters will be displayed, fill in the necessary details.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Name &#8211; enter the name (or leave default search name)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong> &#8211; select <strong>Simple filter\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>Definition &#8211; enter the search parameters\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Event<\/strong> equal <strong>View\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Email<\/strong> &#8211; enter the email of the user<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Date (relative)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 in the last x days &#8211; enter the number of days<\/li>\r\n<li>Click on<strong> Apply<\/strong> to get the result<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2348\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_50-Window.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_50-Window.png 984w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_50-Window-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_50-Window-768x684.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>Result<\/h3>\r\n<p>The result will show all the <strong>&#8220;Events of View done by the selected user in the past 30 days&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; as the filter applied above.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_02-Window.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_02-Window.png 1480w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_02-Window-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_02-Window-1024x596.png 1024w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_14_02-Window-768x447.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>Exclude View of &#8220;owned&#8221; files<\/h3>\r\n<p>You can refine your Google Drive searches even further.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Say you&#8217;re only interested in Files this user viewed that are <strong>not<\/strong> their own, you can <strong>exclude Files where this user is also the owner.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Export the result into a Google spreadsheet or CSV.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In the <strong>Google Sheet<\/strong>, <strong>apply a filter<\/strong> and <strong>exclude<\/strong> the user from the <strong>Owner<\/strong> field.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><\/figure>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2350\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_22_27-Window.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1531\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_22_27-Window.png 1531w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_22_27-Window-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_22_27-Window-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2022-01-20-19_22_27-Window-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1531px) 100vw, 1531px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3>Result of owner filter<\/h3>\r\n<p><strong>The result you&#8217;ll get is all the documents visited by the subject, excluding the files that the person owns.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>A good follow-on question from this is how do we create daily\/weekly reporting for all or some documents in your domain?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Well, we created a post about how to schedule daily\/weekly reports on event activities on files.\u00a0 Read more about that below here:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/how-to-track-visitors-and-editors-of-specific-documents\/\">How to Track Visitors and Editors<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction GAT+ Audit provides a great in-depth view of all the events that are happening in the Domain level Drive files The question of who reads what Drive file and when comes up often and GAT makes it really easy to get the detailed answers you&#8217;re looking for. 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