The summary of essential information about new features and improvements for Google Workspace customers in October 2022.
AppSheet databases, available in public preview
AppSheet is Google’s platform for building and deploying end-to-end apps and automation without writing code. As we continue to enhance and streamline app creation, we’re introducing a built-in structured database in public preview. Read more.
Encouraging Working Location coverage across organizations
Starting today, admins have access to a new tool that aims to drive Working Location coverage across their organizations. This setting adds a customizable banner to users’ Calendar either encouraging or requiring them to set up their working location.
By increasing the usage of working location, admins and colleagues will have better context for location planning, meeting room management, attendee visibility, and more. Read more.
Google Workspace Client-side encryption beta expanded to include Google Calendar
In 2021, we announced Google Workspace Client-side encryption to help customers strengthen the confidentiality of their data while helping to address a broad range of data sovereignty and compliance requirements.
Since then, we’ve made this feature available for Google Meet, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, with support for multiple file types including Office files, PDFs, and more. Today, we’re happy to announce the beta for Client-side encryption for Google Calendar. When using Client-side encryption for Calendar events, your event description, attachments, and Meet data is indecipherable to Google servers. You have control over encryption keys and the identity service to access those keys. Read more.
Hold separate conversations in Google Chat spaces with in-line threading
In addition to recently increasing the number of members you can add to a space in Google Chat from 400 to 8,000, you can now reply directly to any message in new spaces and some existing spaces. This creates a separate in-line thread where smaller groups of people can continue a conversation on a specific topic. Read more.
Workspace Admins are now notified when Label editing is restricted by set rules
In addition to a recent feature allowing admins to programmatically manage and apply Drive Labels using new API functionality, we’ve added a new Label Manager UI feature showing which rules a label is used within.
When labels are published, their semantic meaning can be leveraged for the enforcement of rules, such as a DLP policy based on the presence of a label. Labels are locked to prevent the possibility of breaking a related rule, and to make it easier to use labels to enforce rules, we've added warnings and feedback to the Labels Manager UI. Read more.
Easily drop content into Slides from other apps on Android
A few months ago, we added several new features and functionality to products like Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Keep on Android devices. The ability to drag and drop content from other Android apps into Slides is the latest update. We hope this enhances flexibility by giving you more ways to work with, display and organize your content. Read more.
Preview and interact with files using smart chips in Google Sheets
In 2021, we announced the ability to insert smart chips for files and meetings in Google Docs. Starting today, you can now add files directly into a Google Sheet as a smart chip, making it easier for you to quickly preview and interact with files from Google Drive. Read more.
Use built-in mail merge tags like @firstname to personalize multi-send emails
Recently, we made it easier to send individual emails to many recipients with the launch of multi-send in Gmail. Whether you’re organizing a large event or sending a newsletter to customers, multi-send emails look more professional than using mass-BCC. Read more.
Improving the Google Chat and Gmail search experience on web and mobile
In order to help you find more accurate and customized search suggestions and results, we’re introducing three features that improve the Google Chat and Gmail search experience on web and mobile. Read more.
Improved experience for the Calendar guest list in Google Meet
In addition to seeing the RSVP status of everyone on the invite, you can now see all from the Calendar invite, including:
Automatically transcribe speech during Google Meet calls into a Google Doc
Meeting hosts can now choose to automatically transcribe video meetings into Google Docs files. The transcribed file is saved in the hosts “Meet Recordings” folder in Google Drive, similar to meeting recordings. This feature can only be accessed when using Google Meet on a desktop or laptop. Read more.
Source: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com