Using Google Sites as Intranet

[bradrkoch]

Wondering if Google Sites search can be limited to a single folder?  We have a shared sales collateral folder that houses all our various marketing and training materials for both our in house reps and external channel partners.  We are using the Drive widget to point the the relevant folders - so we have categories of content.  

My issue is that the files housed in these widgets do not show up as part of search, and if I turn on the full organizational search option, the results aren't limited to those files that are associated with the site.

Ideas?

[bill_pier3]

Perhaps you'd consider looking at Steegle's offerings -- they have multiple Drive embed options.

@StephenHind 

[GuibsonPrieto]

Hello Brad - 
Google Sites can make reliable and easy-to-update intranet as part of Google Workspace or as a standalone project.
You can limit the access to internal access only by tweaking the sharing setting to be (do not allow users to publish outside the organization)
you could achieve this by handling granular permission levels such as security groups for only specific members to work on those sites, as well as to prevent anyone for unintentionally sharing content outside of it.
for the Internal documents, you could place them into shared drives that are located on a secure (internal only) repository type, so you have the assurance that no one will grab and share the content outside the org.

Click here for specific information on who can access the site that you publish internally

Also, Click here for Google sites support page directly from Google source

Hope this helps, 

[GuibsonPrieto]

For the embedded files, please try to follow best practices on housing the files under a Shared Drive with company only access to it, then you might want to publish the documents, then embed them into the site, see article below:

Click Here

[StephenHind]

@bradrkoch as @bill_pier3 mentions (thanks for the shout out) we offer tool to embed Google Drive in a Google Site (or anywhere for that matter) with search and folder hierarchy (works best with a Shared Drive) to look at an entire Shared Drive or a siungle Google Drive folder..

We call it Steegle Share for Google Drive.