Google wont allow chronoforms to save as it says t picks up suspicious activity

lachlanyoung1992 02 Jul, 2014
I have set up a form to save the data in the form to be saved to a google spreadsheet, but when it goes to save, google wont allow it as it says it is picking up suspicous activity.

Someone recently used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account. This person was using an application such as an email client or mobile device.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Tuesday, July 1, 2014 4:55:07 AM UTC
IP Address: 216.12.221.243 (216.12.221.243-static.reverse.softlayer.com)
Location: New York, NY, USA


If you do not recognize this sign-in attempt, someone else might be trying to access your account. You should sign in to your account and reset your password immediately.

Reset password

If this was you, and you are having trouble accessing your account, complete the troubleshooting steps listed at http://support.google.com/mail?p=client_login

Sincerely,
The Google Accounts team

What can i do to allow google to not pick this up as suspicous activity
GreyHead 02 Jul, 2014
Hi lachlanyoung1992,

Looking at the code it appears to use the Client Login authorisation which Google allows but discourages. Maybe there is some way to set your Google account to allow these saves?

The other solution would be to upgrade the action to use an 'encouraged' authorisation method like oAuth - but that isn't a trivial fix :-(

Bob
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