Odyssey and Google Accounts

Odyssey leverages the powerful capabilities of Google Sheets to facilitate highly efficient and robust data import and export operations. To fully engage with these critical data management functionalities, a secure association with a Google account is essential for each Odyssey user.

Seamless Authorization Process: The initial integration of your Google account with Odyssey is designed for both simplicity and security. The first time you initiate a task involving a Google Sheet (such as an import or export), Odyssey will intuitively prompt you to authorize secure access to your Google account. Once this authorization is successfully completed, this seamless connection will be permanently established within Odyssey for your user profile, eliminating the need for repeated authentication.

• Alternatively, you can proactively establish this vital connection at any time by navigating to the My Account section within Odyssey, selecting the Integrations tab, and proceeding with the Google authentication process.
  
  

Individual Account Association and Best Practices: A fundamental principle of the Odyssey system is that each individual Odyssey user account maintains an exclusive association with precisely one Google account. To ensure optimal performance, data integrity, and prevent potential access challenges—particularly with sophisticated import and update tools—we strongly recommend that multiple users refrain from sharing a single Odyssey account. When an import or export process is initiated by a specific user, that user is automatically designated as the definitive owner of the Google Sheets generated during that operation.

Organized Data Management within Google Drive: For systematic organization and ease of access, all Google Sheets created through Odyssey will reside within a dedicated HistoryIT folder in that user’s individual Google Drive. Should this specialized folder not already exist, Odyssey will automatically create it in the root directory of your Google Drive, ensuring a streamlined file structure. It is important to note that Odyssey will maintain only one root HistoryIT folder. While other authorized users are fully capable of accessing and editing import and export sheets generated by a different user, the original owner of those sheets will need to share explicit edit permissions to facilitate collaborative work.

Important Note for Account Owners: For Odyssey account owners or administrators engaging in user impersonation, it is crucial to recognize that this action, in itself, does not automatically grant access to the Google account associated with the impersonated user. Access to the Google Sheets remains intrinsically tied to the specific Google account that owns those valuable assets.

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