Comments have been updated to facilitate better discussions and seamless integration into email. Some of the features include: - Improvements to the discussion flow by adding ownership and edit rights to individual comments. Each comment now has a timestamp and profile picture. - No need to delete comments. You can resolve comments to remove them from the visible document and view them later by clicking the discussions button at the top of any document. - Integration of comments with your inbox to facilitate more rapid and responsive communication. You can now add someone to a discussion with an @mention. For example, typing ‘@eddy@altostrat.com’ in a discussion will send a notification email to Eddy with the text of your comment. - Eddy can open the document from the email, or reply via email and the reply will show up in the comment as soon as the email is sent. Release track: Rapid* Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education Languages included: All languages supported by Google Docs How to access what's new: Create a new document, position the cursor or highlight some text and select ‘Insert’ then ‘Comment.’ You also have various options to configure how email from comments is received. Please note that improved comments are only available in new documents at this time so if you want to try it out make sure to create a new document. The comments you’ve created in an existing document won’t be changed. For more information: http://googledocs.blogspot. Comments in documents: http://docs.google.com/ *Rapid Release track: Domains with ‘Enable scheduled releases’ checkbox disabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:18 PM PDT More integration between Google Sites and Google Apps Scripts is now available with a new Apps Scripts gadget. This allows more complex workflows and custom applications to be built into your Google Site. Release track: Rapid* Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education Languages included: All languages supported by Google Sites How to access what's new: - When editing a site, select ‘Insert’ then ‘Apps Script gadget’ to add an existing script to the page. For more information: http://googleenterprise. *Rapid Release track: Domains with ‘Enable scheduled releases’ checkbox disabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:08 PM PDT You can now create multiple range charts and hide individual sheets in your spreadsheet. Release track: Rapid* Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education Languages included: All languages supported by Google Spreadsheets How to access what's new: - Add extra ranges by selecting “Select ranges...” and “add another range.” You can also manually add new ranges separated by commas. - Select a sheet tab and select “hide sheet” to remove a sheet from view. For more information: http://googledocs.blogspot. *Rapid Release track: Domains with ‘Enable scheduled releases’ checkbox disabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:54 PM PDT The following features are now available to domains on the Scheduled Release track: Gmail: - Improved label visibility controls: The “Hide read labels” and “Hide Labels from Subjects” labs to help people manage their ever-growing lists of labels have graduated from Gmail Labs. Some improvements to how they work have also been made. Instead of simply hiding all labels from subject lines, you can now choose which labels to show or hide. We also revamped the Labels tab in Settings as well as the dropdown menus for each label in the label list. - Priority inbox cleanup: If users have enabled Priority Inbox but have not used it in a while, they will see a "clean up" button which will mark all old important messages as read. The following features are now intended for release to these domains on March 22: Google Docs: - A refreshed documents list interface making it more useful to find, explore and share items. Release Track: Scheduled* Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education Languages included: All languages supported by Gmail and Google Docs For more information: Label Visibility: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ Documents list Refresh: http://docs.google.com/ *Scheduled Release track: Domains with ‘Enable scheduled releases’ checkbox enabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates |
| Posted: 15 Mar 2011 06:15 PM PDT A new two-track release process has now rolled out to all Google Apps domains. This new process is aimed at helping administrators balance the benefits of accessing improvements as soon as they're ready with the task of integrating the changes into their organization. Our new process has two release tracks that Google Apps administrators can choose from: Rapid Release: Customers on the Rapid Release track have access to new features as soon as the features have completed testing and quality assurance, and are ready to roll out. Scheduled Release: Customers on the Scheduled Release track gain access to new features on a regular, weekly release schedule following the initial release of those features. This delay allows time for administrators to familiarize themselves with new features using a test domain, educate support staff, and communicate any changes to their users. New features will be released on the Scheduled Release track each Tuesday, with at least a one-week notice following the initial feature launch. Editions included: Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education Languages included: Control Panel: US English Only (Next Generation Control Panel) How to access what's new: - The “Pre-release features” checkbox has now been replaced with “Enable scheduled releases”. This causes no change in behaviour for existing domains. - If your organization previously had “Pre-release features” enabled in the Google Apps control panel, then you will be placed on the Rapid Release track and continue to gain access to new features as soon as they’re ready. Otherwise, your organization will be placed on the Scheduled Release track. - You can change your selection by choosing how you would like to receive new features in the Google Apps control panel. - If you're considering a switch to Scheduled Release, note that you may currently be using some features that are only available in Rapid Release. - New features for Gmail, Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites will be following this new release process going forward. For more information: http://googleenterprise. New launch resource site: whatsnew.googleapps.com List of features currently available to Rapid Release only: http://www.google.com/support/ Q1 2011 Apps Innovation in Review recorded webinar: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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