Which means customers will not have to go away Google Chat when making an attempt to reply to feedback and entry requests from Google Drive. With the most recent replace, Google Chat customers will have the ability to reap the benefits of the next perks, which weren’t beforehand obtainable:
- Reply to or resolve feedback in Docs, Sheets and Slides, which incorporates the power to say your colleagues simply whereas replying.
- Select the suitable entry stage (e.g. viewer, commenter, editor) for share requests.
- See while you’ve been talked about in Docs, Sheets or Slides utilizing Chat’s “Mentions” shortcut.
- Simply block a sender or report abuse from the Drive Chat app’s notifications once they come from a person outdoors of your group.
Regardless that the Google Drive Chat app shall be mechanically put in, customers will nonetheless be allowed to handle notifications, mute, and even uninstall the app at any time by going to the three-dot overflow menu.
Simply reply to Google Drive feedback in Google Chat | Picture credit: Google
Clearly, the brand new characteristic shall be enabled by default, however admins may be disabled through the Workspace Market app allowlist on the area or group stage. Nonetheless, finish customers may also disable this characteristic in the event that they don’t want it.
In keeping with Google, the Chat Drive app replace shall be rolled out beginning November 18. The rollout will doubtlessly take greater than 15 days, with anticipated completion by January 15, 2025, so there’s numerous ready concerned.
So far as availability goes, Google confirmed the brand new characteristic shall be obtainable to all Google Workspace prospects and Workspace Particular person Subscribers.
