Google Workspace Updates: May 2015

Expanding the Inbox by Gmail early adopter program for work

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Earlier today, we Inbox early adopter program—announced earlier this year—so any Google Apps for Work customer who wants to join can do so.

We want to build an Inbox that changes the way people get things done at work by collaborating with Apps for Work customers to bring Inbox to work, and we encourage Apps for Work customers interested in the early adopter program to get involved by joining the Help Center

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PDF viewer and performance improvements for the Google Drive app for Android

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

A new version of the Google Drive app for Android is coming to Google Play this week. New features include:

PDF Viewer enhancement: see completed form data
Performance and interface improvements

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release (gradual rollout)

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Mobile image and table insertion on the Google Docs and Slides apps

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

New versions of the Google Docs and Slides apps for Android and iOS are now available on Google Play and the App Store. New features include:

Docs

Insert images

Slides

Insert, crop and mask images
Insert and manipulate tables

All of today’s improvements to Docs and Slides will remain available when you’re offline. You’ll just need the updated mobile apps.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Changes to Drive folder and page URL structure

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

To improve overall performance, we’re moving from using hash marks (#) to using the HTML5 History API in Google Drive. This means that moving forward, Google Drive folder and page URLs will no longer include hash marks (for example, https://drive.google.com/drive/#folders/ABC will become https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ABC and https://drive.google.com/drive/#starred will become https://drive.google.com/drive/starred).

Links to Drive folder and page URLs containing hash marks will continue to work indefinitely, but this change could impact any Google Apps admins or employees who parse Drive folder or page URLs specifically for the “#” symbol or who use Chrome extensions that employ the old-style URLs for Drive navigation.

This change is currently live for Rapid release domains; the rollout to Scheduled release domains is planned for June 9th.

Release track:
Live on Rapid release, with Scheduled release to follow on June 9th

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Create, edit, and grade assignments on the go with new Classroom mobile app features

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

In January, we launched a Classroom mobile app for iOS and Android, because we knew that students were increasingly relying on mobile devices to get homework done on the go. That app has now been downloaded more than 2.5 million times. This functionality isn’t just useful for students, however. We’ve heard from teachers that they also want to be able to keep track of their classes no matter where they are or what device they’re on. Today, we’re making that even easier with several new features. Teachers can now:

Create and edit assignments on the go, make copies of attachments, and attach new photos to assignments.
Grade assignments from their phones or tablets, and add private comments for students.
Snap pictures to create assignments, so whiteboard photos and class notes can be posted to the stream for students who are absent and/or assigned to the class for a deeper dive.

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Deprecation reminder: Migrate all scripts away from OAuthConfig before July 6th, 2015

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

OAuth is the de facto standard for authorization today and used by most modern APIs. To assist with connecting Apps Script to OAuth-protected APIs, we recently created two new open source libraries: stopped supporting OAuth1 (and by extension OAuthConfig) on April 20th, 2015. Scripts using these APIs should have been migrated to the OAuth2 for Apps Script library or the API’s equivalent Advanced Service.

On July 6th, 2015*, we will go one step further and shut down the OAuthConfig class completely. This means that if you have scripts that still use OAuthConfig to connect to APIs, you will need to Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates

What's New in Google Apps newsletter - April 2015

Monday, May 4, 2015

Newsletter Archive & Translated Versions (coming soon for April issue)

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Introducing Google+ Collections, a new way to group posts by topic

Monday, May 4, 2015

Today, we’re announcing Google+ Collections, a new way to group posts by topic.

Every collection is a focused set of posts on a particular topic, providing an easy way for people using Google+ to organize their interests and focus areas. For Google Apps customers, collections could be used for communicating to a project team or organizing an event, allowing followers to easily access all relevant posts in one location.

Each collection can be shared publicly, privately, or with a custom set of people. Once you create your first collection, your profile will display a new tab where other people can find and follow your collections. Posts in collections you follow will appear in your Home stream, with a link to easily jump right into the collection so you can get to similar content from that author.

Collections is available on Android and the web starting today, with iOS coming later.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Updates

Expanding the Inbox by Gmail early adopter program for work

PDF viewer and performance improvements for the Google Drive app for Android

Mobile image and table insertion on the Google Docs and Slides apps

Changes to Drive folder and page URL structure

Create, edit, and grade assignments on the go with new Classroom mobile app features

Deprecation reminder: Migrate all scripts away from OAuthConfig before July 6th, 2015

What's New in Google Apps newsletter - April 2015

Introducing Google+ Collections, a new way to group posts by topic

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