Google Workspace Updates: API

The Calendar API now distinguishes events created from Gmail

Thursday, May 30, 2024

What’s changingStarting May 30, 2024, the Calendar API will distinguish events created from Gmail. New and existing events from Gmail that are scheduled for a future date will:

Appear with a new event Type “fromGmail” instead of “default”.

Include the email recipient as the organizer instead of “unknownorganizer@calendar.google.com”.

New “fromGmail” filters for both Events.list and Events.watch will be available.

In Google Calendar clients events from email may be rendered slightly differently to regular events and show a link back to the original email:

Google Calendar limits edits for events from email:

Additional details

If you’re using the Calendar API, we recommend the following to help avoid any disruptions in your applications:

Ensure that your code does not apply restricted updates to events with the type “fromGmail”.

Temporarily, updates on events with the type “fromGmail” are restricted to the properties reminders, colorId, visibility, status, and extendedProperties. Stay tuned to the Workspace updates blog for more information.
Review your code if it filters by eventType for Events.list or Events.watch. Filtering by eventType “default” will no longer return events extracted from emails.

Getting started

Developers: Use our Developer Documentation for more information about the Calendar API eventType.
End users: There is no end user action required. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing events automatically imported from Gmail.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 30, 2024

Availability

The Google Calendar API is available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Personal information cards and Contacts sidebar will now display the organization name

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

What’s changingStarting May 28, 2024, the organization name and department will be displayed on personal information cards and in the Contacts sidebar. This information provides helpful context about the people you’re interacting with and displaying this additional information will help you learn more about who you’re collaborating with, and more.

Getting started

Admins:

Admins can populate user data via the Admin console or via the Admin SDK API with the list and update commands. You can also visit the Help Center to learn more about adding information to a user’s Directory profile.
Important note: Some customers may have set both organization name and organization department for their users, where department includes the organization name. We have notified impacted customers via email, but we recommend that you check your settings and update your users’ organization department to prevent duplicate organization names from showing. You can do this via the Admin console or via the Admin SDK API with the list and update commands.

End users: End users: You can view this information within Google Contacts (contacts.google.com), while hovering over a user, or from the Contacts sidebar.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on May 28, 2024

Availability

Available for all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Add information to a user’s Directory profile

Introducing audit logs for these API-based actions

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

What’s changingDrive log events provide admins with visibility into their organization’s user activity in Drive. Previously, download activity for files triggered by the use of Google Workspace APIs was not visible to admins as a Drive log event.
Today, we’re adding audit logs for these API-based actions to the security investigation tool and the audit and investigation tool to expand upon an admin’s ability to identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues in their domain.

Getting started

Admins: This feature will be ON by default. No action is required, relevant events will appear in the logs automatically. Use our Help Center to learn more about Drive audit logs.

Note: Your ability to run a search depends on your Google Workspace editions, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.

End users: No end user impact.

Rollout pace

This feature is now available

AvailabilityAvailable for Google Workspace:

Business Starter, Standard, Plus
Enterprise Standard, Plus
Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus
Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Resources

Manage spaces at scale with new Chat API functionality

Thursday, May 23, 2024

What’s changingWe are pleased to announce the launch for additional features of Chat API via the Developer Preview Program, enabling space management at scale on behalf of admin users. These new features, which you can read more about down below, are available to all users currently enrolled in the Developer Preview Program. See here for more information on how to enroll in the Developer Preview program.Who’s impactedAdmins and developersWhy you’d use itIn 2023, we launched the Space Management tool, which allowed admins to view all the spaces within their organization, understand the activity within those spaces, and perform essential actions like deleting a space or assigning space managers. While finding the tool helpful, admins expressed a desire for more robust tools to perform these tasks faster and at scale, for example, with the help of APIs. Admins can now use the Chat API to find information and manage their spaces in bulk— specifically they’ll be able to:

Audit spaces: Admins can pull a list of all spaces in their organization, which includes detailed information about space settings and metadata like member counts, history setting status, the ability to invite external guests, and more. The list will be exported to a CSV file for further analysis and audit.

Delete inactive spaces in bulk: It’s common to create spaces for projects and initiatives that are only relevant for a specific period of time. As these projects move toward completion, activity in these spaces become inactive or abandoned altogether without deletion. This can result in a huge amount of clutter, making it for end users to navigate and search for relevant spaces, and for admins, making it difficult to audit and take action when managing your spaces. You can now easily detect and delete all inactive or unused spaces, or create an automated cleanup task with the help of Chat API.

However, there are some cases where less active spaces should not be deleted, such as spaces dedicated to quarterly or annual events. In these situations, admins can use the new API functionality to identify space managers so they can reach out and confirm whether a space should be deleted.

User onboarding and offboarding: When a new user joins an organization, it’s important that they’re connected to all relevant spaces, including organization wide spaces or spaces based on specific departments or job roles. Admins can use this functionality to automatically add users to relevant spaces based on specific attributes like their department, role, location, and more.

Conversely, it’s also important to ensure users are removed from spaces when they leave an organization or change roles. Admins can quickly identify all spaces where an outgoing user is a member of and remove them from spaces that are no longer relevant to them.

Audit external members: To monitor and control access to organizations' data, admins can conduct an audit of membership for a specific user or group of users. Admins can use the Google Chat API to generate a list of all space members — this information, combined with a query to the People API, can assist in identifying a space’s external members. As a result, admins may choose to remove specific users from organization's conversations. This can be done on a space-by-space basis using the API directly or with the help of your own scripts, adjusted to the unique process in your organization.

We plan to introduce more functionality for managing spaces in the future — stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog for more information.

Getting started

Admins and developers:

If you are part of the Google Workspace Developer Preview, you will get these features by default. Otherwise, you must apply for access using this form.
Use our Developer Documentation to learn how to authenticate and authorize using administrator privilege.

End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

These features are available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability

New features for the Google Chat API scoped to admin users are available to participants of Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.

Resources

Google Chat apps can now subscribe to event notifications

Thursday, April 18, 2024

This announcement was part of Google Cloud Next ‘24. Visit the Workspace Blog to learn more about the next wave of innovations in Workspace, including enhancements to Gemini for Google Workspace.

What’s changing

Google Workspace developers registered in our Developer Preview Program have been able to build Chat apps that can subscribe to Chat events using the Google Workspace Events API. We’re pleased to announce that as of today, this functionality is now available to all Workspace developers.

Chat apps can receive events about the following types of changes in Google Chat:

New memberships
New or removed reactions to a message
New, updated, or removed members in a space
Changes to a space, such as the space name or description

Subscribing to these notifications allows Chat apps to respond to important actions in real-time. For details, see subscribe to Google Chat events in the Google Workspace Events API documentation.

Getting started

Developers: Use our Developer Documentation for more information about working with events from Google Chat.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

The Google Chat API is available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Import data from other messaging platforms using the Google Chat API is now generally available

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

What’s changing Google Workspace developers registered in our Workspace Developer Preview program have been able to import user data from other messaging platforms into Google Chat using the Google Chat API. This functionality is now generally available to all Workspace developers and admins.

Who’s impactedAdmins and developers

Why it’s importantIn order to import data, you can create a Chat app and “import mode” Chat space. Within an import mode space, Chat apps can import the following data as equivalent REST resources:

Messages
Attachments
Reactions
Memberships with the following considerations:

Spaces: only SpaceType.SPACE is supported.

This is a helpful workflow for those who are transitioning from other messaging platforms to Google Chat. Rather than copying source data into regular spaces, import mode has the following advantages:

Preservation of resource creation timestamps: You can set a historical time for the creation times of space and message resources, letting Chat apps retain historical context during user adoption of Google Chat.
End users can't view or access spaces in import mode: To prevent user interference with a space undergoing data import, or to avoid possible user confusion as a result of viewing an in-progress data import, spaces in import mode are hidden from end users. After a space has completed import mode, you can add users to the space.
Chat turns off notifications during import mode: This helps users to avoid unnecessary alerts about the migration.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Available now.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Available in open beta: the Groups Admin role can now be provisioned for specific group types

Monday, February 26, 2024

What’s changingThe Groups Admin role can now be assigned for security groups or non-security groups. Previously, those with the Groups Admin role had access to all groups within an organization. This change gives administrators more granular delegation of group admin responsibilities, helping limit access to the most sensitive groups to only those who absolutely need it.

This feature is available in open beta, which means no additional sign-up is required to use the feature.Getting started

Admins:

End users: There is no end user impact or action required.

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 26, 2024

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Assign specific admin roles
Google Workspace Admin Help: Control access to sensitive data with security groups
Google Workspace Admin Help: Prebuilt administrator roles
Google Workspace Updates Blog: Manage groups programmatically with the Cloud Identity Groups API beta
Developer Documentation: REST Resource: groups
Developer Documentation: Creating security groups

The Google Meet API is now generally available

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

What’s changing In November 2023, we announced the availability of the Google Meet API through our Developer Preview Program. Beginning today, the Google Meet API is generally available. You can use the Meet API to:

Programmatically create and configure Meet calls
Retrieve information about past meetings, such as the meeting times and attendees.
Access meeting artifacts, such as transcripts and video recordings
Subscribe to real time updates on meetings, such as when a participant joins or leaves

For more information, please reference our original announcement.

Who's impacted

Admins and developers

Why you’d use it

Integrating the Meet API in your product with the Google Meet API streamlines workflows and provides your product with Meet information that easily enhances your product offering. For example, partners such as Hubspot, Outreach, Salesforce, and Salesloft currently integrate the Meet API into their solutions to pull meeting recordings and artifacts into their conversational intelligence tools for analysis and sales coaching.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Available now.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - February 2, 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
New ways to work with filters in Connected Sheets for Looker and Connected Sheets for BigQuery

Latest improvement for page setup in Google Docs We’re introducing a new menu item within the Format option that enables you to easily switch between pageless and pages mode in Google Docs. | Rollout to Rapid Release domains is complete; launch to Scheduled Release domains planned for February 5, 2024. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about changing a document’s page setup.

Developers can now choose which calendar events to be notified about Developers using the Calendar API can now subscribe to specific changes in users’ calendars — this includes event types such as working location, out-of-office, or focus time. This update reduces the amount of notifications down to those that are most relevant to the developer. | Use our Developer Documentation for more information about subscribing to alerts for specific calendar event changes. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains. | The Calendar API is available to all Google Workspace customers, however Calendar features may vary across Google Workspace editions.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

For Google Meet Hardware, ‘Auto-Update Expiration (AUE)’ will now be referred to as 'end of Meet support'

We’re making changes to the terminology that refers to when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported. | This update impacts all Google Workspace customers with Meet hardware devices. | Learn more about 'end of Meet support'.

Local data storage exports your organization's Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta

We’re introducing Google Workspace’s new feature, local data storage. This feature allows admins to export their organization’s Workspace data into the geographic location or locations of their choice. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with Assured Controls add-on only. | Learn more about the local data storage exports beta.

Improving the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with new features

We’re improving upon the current appointment scheduling experience with four new features. | Co-hosts, secondary calendars and delegate access features are available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits only. Check Calendars for availability feature is available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Nonprofits, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts only. | Learn more about the appointment scheduling features.

Shareable class templates and classwork in Google Classroom are now generally available

Last year, we announced a Google Classroom beta that simplifies lesson planning with shareable class templates and classwork. We’re excited to announce that this is now globally available for Google Workspace for Education Plus customers in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. | Available to Education Plus only. | Learn more about shareable class materials.

Pin chat messages in Google Meet

You can now pin messages to the top of the meeting chat. Pinned messages will appear for all users, even if they join the meeting after the message was initially sent. | Learn more about messaging pinning.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Improving the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with new features

Scheduled Release Domains:

Adding timezone support for existing smart chips in Google Docs
Combining multiple video effects (Web & Mobile availability)
Studio lighting (Web availability)

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Extending Trusted Types to Gmail

Friday, January 12, 2024

What’s changingLast year, we improved the client-side security of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Drawings, Drive, and Calendar with Trusted Types. This browser-based runtime feature limits the uses of Document Object Model (DOM) APIs that are used by the apps listed above or third-party extensions. Trusted Types also reduce the possibility of Document Object Model Cross Site Scripting (DOM XSS), which continues to be one of the most critical threats to web security.
DOM XSS occurs when a cyber attacker injects malicious code into a web page, which can then be executed by the victim's browser. This can allow the cyber attacker to steal cookies, hijack sessions, and even take control of the victim's computer.
To defend against this, we’re excited to announce the expansion of Trusted Types to Gmail. This will provide a defense against DOM XSS and further enhances our advanced data protection controls to keep users and data safe across more of the apps they use everyday.

Who’s impacted Developers (relying on any Chrome extensions that modify DOM APIs.)

Additional details This new enforcement mode will require third-party extensions to use typed objects instead of strings when assigning values to DOM APIs. Once Trusted Types are fully enforced, the Trusted Types directive will be present in the Content Security Policy (CSP) header:
Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for 'script';report-uri https://mail.google.com/mail/cspreport

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
Developers:

To make code Trusted Types compliant, signal to the browser that data being used within the context of these DOM APIs is trustworthy by creating a Trusted Type special object.
There are several ways to be Trusted Types compliant, such as removing the offending code, using a library (such as safevalues or DOMPurify), or creating a Trusted Types policy. To ensure a seamless experience for users, we recommend employing these techniques before Trusted Types enforcement is rolled out. Failure to make code Trusted Types compliant may cause feature breakages for third-party extensions as their DOM manipulations will be blocked by the browser.

End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts

Resources

Google Help: Implement CSP and Trusted Types debugging in Chrome DevTools.

Google Vault now supports Google Calendar

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

What’s changing Google Vault now supports Calendar, which means customers can take the following actions around Calendar data:

Manage retention with default and custom rules.
Search and preview events with a number of filters, such as keyword search across description, title, guests, locations and invite response status which can be used to quickly refine your search.
Search for historical versions of events, which allows Vault Admins to search and export events as they appeared on a specific date.
Export data in multiple formats, including ICS, PST (MSFT format) and CSE-decryptable formats.
Apply holds to prevent purging of data which must be retained for legal purposes.

Selecting Calendar as a service from the Vault user interface

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it matters

Vault is an information governance and eDiscovery tool for Google Workspace. Now customers’ Calendar events can be retained, held, searched, and exported. This integration makes it easier for customers to comply with regional and legal mandates surrounding Calendar data, all from a central tool.

Vault’s integration with Calendar rounds out support for critical Workspace apps such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Chat and Meet, providing customers with a consistent experience across all products that are managed within Vault.

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Vault to search Google Calendar, placing Google Calendar data on hold, and retaining Google Calendar data with Vault.

Rollout pace

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus customers or customers with the Vault add-on license.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Use Vault to search Google Calendar
Google Workspace Admin Help: Place Google Calendar data on hold
Google Workspace Admin Help: Retain Google Calendar data with Vault

Read and write out of office and focus time events using the Calendar API

Friday, November 17, 2023

What’s changing In addition to reading and writing working location data, we’re expanding the Calendar API functionality to encompass out of office and focus time data. Developers can use the API to read and write this information and synchronize users’ availability with external systems. For example, you can use the API in conjunction with HR systems to automatically add OOO entries to a user’s calendar when they submit vacation time. Or the API can be used to automatically block focus time on a user’s calendar to complete training courses.

Further, reading and writing this information eliminates the need for users to enter the same information into multiple systems, helping to cut down on manual churn.

Who’s impacted

Developers

Why you’d use it

Out of office and focus time event support joins support for working location, which was announced earlier this year, to round out API functionality for calendar events. Each specific event type can be synced throughout your organization's IT ecosystem, creating seamless user journeys and helping to connect users with resources and each other. This includes things such as:

Mapping working location data to better adapt on-site resources and update other third-party surfaces, such as hot desk booking tools.
Automatically blocking OOO based on vacation or PTO requests.
Blocking off focus time events to give users time to go through onboarding or other company training programs.

Additional details

Prior to this update, if you requested to read a user’s calendar via API v3, out of office and focus time events were returned with unknownorganizer@calendar.google.com in the organizer field, and without their specific features. With this update, these events will return with all their properties and the specific user as organizer. Please check your code to ensure it does not make implicit assumptions about the previous API return values, and use the eventType parameter to perform different operations with regular, OOO, Focus Time, or Working Location events

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 16, 2023

Availability

The Calendar API is available to all.
Out of Office events are available to Google Workspace Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Nonprofits, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, and Education Plus customers.
Focus Time events are available to Google Workspace Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Nonprofits, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, and Education Plus customers.

Resources

Google Meet API now available in Developer Preview

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

What’s changing Launching through our Google Workspace Developer Preview Program, developers can now use the Google Meet API. Using this API, developers can:

Programmatically create and configure Meet calls.
Retrieve information about past meetings, such as the meeting times and attendees.
Access meeting artifacts, such as transcripts and video recordings.
Subscribe to real time updates on meetings, such as when a participant joins or leaves.

The API will give partners and customers the ability to create and configure Meet video conferences, allow their end users to join a conference, and post real-time updates from within their own applications.

Using the Meet API, Outreach is ingesting meeting recordings and transcripts into their AI-powered conversation intelligence tool, Kaia, to deliver rich insights to their teams.

Who’s impacted

Developers

Why you’d use it

Incorporating your product with the Google Meet API streamlines workflows and provides your product with Meet information that easily enhances your product offering. For example, partners such as Hubspot, Outreach, Salesloft and Salesforce currently integrate the Meet API to pull meeting recordings and artifacts into their conversational intelligence tools for analysis and sales coaching.

Additionally, integrating with the Google Meet API enables you to link your app with Meet’s video conferencing capabilities, allowing users to access a secure video conferencing product from their own UI by the click of a button. Brandlive, a leading webinar and event platform, uses the Google Meet API as a way to create and configure video sessions for larger sessions and smaller breakout conversations.

Additional details

View the Google Meet API documentation for additional details.

Getting started

Rollout pace

This feature is available now through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers

Resources

Programmatically read and write working locations with the Calendar API, now generally available

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

What’s changing Previously available in beta through our Developer Preview Program, the ability to read and write a user’s working location using the Calendar API is now generally available.

Reading a user’s working location helps better understand the flow and volume of people through physical campuses. Using this information, you can better adapt on-site resources and update other third-party surfaces, such as hot desk booking tools.

Writing a user’s working location makes it easier to update a user's working location in their calendar based on when and where they’ve booked a hot desk, or if they’ve scheduled a trip via a travel booking tool, and more.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 16, 2023

Availability All developers can use the API, however the working location feature is only available for eligible Workspace editions:

Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Nonprofits customers, as well as legacy G Suite Business customers
Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline, G Suite Basic customers

Resources

Set Context Aware Access policies for 1P & 3P applications to access Workspace APIs

Friday, August 11, 2023

What’s changing Admins can now use context-aware access to block users' access to Workspace Applications via other Google (1st party) & non Google (3rd party) applications. With context-aware access, you can set different access levels to Workspace applications based on a user’s identity and the context of the request (location, device security status, IP address).

Why it’s important Context aware access for APIs will enable customer admins to extend existing user/device CAA context access controls to end users attempting to access Google Workspace Applications via other Google & Non Google applications. Extending these policies to APIs that request Google Workspace core data gives admins another layer of control and security and helps protect against data exfiltration.

Getting started

Rollout pace

This feature is available now.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers

Resources

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - July 28, 2023

Friday, July 28, 2023

3 New updates Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.

Set Context Aware Access policies for 1P & 3P applications to access Workspace APIs

Admins can now use context-aware access to block or limit first and third party API access to Google Workspace applications. With context-aware access, you can set up different access levels to Workspace applications based on a user’s identity and the context of the request (location, device security status, IP address). Extending these policies to APIs that request Workspace core data gives admins another layer of control and security and helps protect against data exfiltration. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers only. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about controlling which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace data, context-aware access, creating context-aware access levels, and assigning access levels to apps.

Include audio when sharing your screen using Google Meet on mobile

If you're using Google Meet on a mobile device, you can now share audio in addition to your screenshare. Share a video with sound, or share music along with your presentation. | This feature is available now on iOS and will begin rolling out for Android mid-August 2023. | Learn more about presenting during a video meeting.

A single Google group can be a member of 30,000 shared drives

Previously, a single Google group could be added as a member to an unlimited number of shared drives. To protect the reliability of access changes for users in Google groups, a single group can now be added to no more than 30,000 shared drives. | Rolling out now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains at an extended pace (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). | Available to Business Standard, Business Plus, Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits only. | Learn more about shared drive limits in Google Drive.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Adding line numbers to Google Docs

We’ve introduced the option to display line numbers within Docs that are set to paged mode. | Learn more about line numbers to Google Docs.

Import sensitive external files to Google Drive with client-side encryption using the Drive API, launching in beta

For select Google Workspace editions, admins can import sensitive, encrypted files from third-party storage using Client-side encryption and the Google Drive API, preserving the confidentiality of your data. Eligible admins can apply for beta access using this form. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about the migrate to Drive client-side encryption beta.

Sync users and groups from an Azure Active Directory using Directory Sync Google

Workspace Admins can now use Directory Sync to sync users and groups from Azure Active Directory. Directory Sync is an alternative to Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS), which admins can use to synchronize user and group data with their Google Cloud directory without the need to manage on-prem hardware and deployments. | Learn more about Directory Sync.

Disable submissions after a due date in Google Classroom

We’ve introduced a new option for teachers to disable submissions after an assignment is past the due date. | Learn more about disabling submissions in Google Classroom.

In-line replies now available within announcement spaces in Google Chat

We've added an in-line reply option to enable members of a space to respond to or discuss an announcement. | Learn more about in-line replies in Google Chat spaces.

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Improving table placements in Google Docs
Negotiate time directly in Gmail to schedule meetings faster
Add emojis in Google Sheets
Add hyperlinks to text in Google Chat
Improved meeting room suggestions in Google Calendar

Scheduled Release Domains:

Gain consensus from collaborators quickly with voting chips in Google Docs
Quickly access more features during meetings, available for Google Meet on the web
Revamping the "First Open Experience" in Sheets and Slides on Android devices
Easily convert emails and links into smart chips using the tab key in Google Sheets

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Programmatically read and write working locations for a portion of the day with the Calendar API

Friday, July 21, 2023

What’s changing Recently, we introduced the ability for users to set working locations in Calendar that indicate where they’re working for specific portions of the day. Now, we’re adding the ability to programmatically read and write working locations for specific portions of the day. This update expands on the existing reading and writing functionality announced earlier this year.

Getting started

Admins and Developers:

Rollout pace

This feature is available now for all eligible Google Workspace editions.

Availability All developers can use the API, however the working location feature is only available for eligible Workspace editions:

Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade and Nonprofits customers

Resources

Ability to create spaces, memberships, group chats, and more using the Google Chat API is now generally available

Monday, July 17, 2023

What’s changing Last year, we announced that developers could use the Google Chat API to programmatically create new spaces and add members to those spaces through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program.
Today, those features are generally available for all Google Workspace developers, along with the ability to use Chat API to:

Spaces	Create a space Create a 1:1 direct message, 1:App direct message, group chat Get a space Update a space Delete a space List spaces Find a Direct Message
Memberships	Create a member Get a member Delete a member List members
Messages	Create a message Get a message Update a message Delete a message List messages
Reactions	Create a reaction Delete a reaction List reactions
Attachments	Download media Upload media

Who’s impacted

Admins and developers

Why you’d use it

These features enable developers to build solutions that integrate into workflows and pull contextual data right into the conversation. Using the new API functionalities, you can set up new spaces that focus on a specific topic, team, or project. You can also use the new APIs to encourage collaboration and outreach with users in your organization. For example, LumApps, a leading intranet platform, enables you to start a direct message in Google Chat from its user directory. Those who are trying to find others based on job titles, roles, departments, and other attributes, can quickly start messaging each other.

Additional details

To ensure you are aware that a Chat application has performed an action on behalf of a user, Chat web and mobile apps will display the app name for system messages and Chat messages.

Getting started

Admins: Admins can use the API controls in Admin Console if they want to restrict access to Google Chat data.
Developers: Access the new Chat APIs through the Google Chat API.

Rollout pace

This feature is now available.

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Control which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace data
Developer Program Preview
Google Developers: Now in Developer Preview: Create Spaces and Add Members with the Google Chat API
Google Developers: Connect your service to Google Chat.
Introducing the new Google Chat API - now Generally Available

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Updates

The Calendar API now distinguishes events created from Gmail

Personal information cards and Contacts sidebar will now display the organization name

Introducing audit logs for these API-based actions

Manage spaces at scale with new Chat API functionality

Google Chat apps can now subscribe to event notifications

Import data from other messaging platforms using the Google Chat API is now generally available

Available in open beta: the Groups Admin role can now be provisioned for specific group types

The Google Meet API is now generally available

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - February 2, 2024

Extending Trusted Types to Gmail

Google Vault now supports Google Calendar

Read and write out of office and focus time events using the Calendar API

Google Meet API now available in Developer Preview

Programmatically read and write working locations with the Calendar API, now generally available

Set Context Aware Access policies for 1P & 3P applications to access Workspace APIs

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - July 28, 2023

Programmatically read and write working locations for a portion of the day with the Calendar API

Ability to create spaces, memberships, group chats, and more using the Google Chat API is now generally available

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