Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #78 / 27-NOV-24

Now Available: Google Vids is bringing AI-powered video creation to work

Google Vids is a new AI-powered video creation app for work that sits alongside Google’s collaboration apps like Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google built Vids with generative AI to make great visual storytelling at work easier and more accessible for all employees — no special skills or separate software licenses required. Earlier this month, Google began rolling out Vids to select Google Workspace Business, Enterprise, Education, and Gemini add-on plans. Now, most of these customers can access Vids at vids.new.

Easily find and navigate your Google Chat conversations by organizing them into custom sections

Over the past year, Google has focused on enhancing the user experience in Google Chat and is now introducing the ability for users to organize Chat conversations into custom sections. This highly requested feature allows users to group similar conversations about a specific topic or project together, conveniently located in the left-hand menu.

New Asus hardware kits for Google Meet

Asus is launching new hardware room kits certified for Google Meet that now offer daisy chain capabilities. Developed with AVer, this refreshed room kit portfolio will work in video conferencing rooms and spaces of just about any size. After initial setup, admins can easily enroll, manage, and monitor these devices using the Google Workspace admin console.

New file picker method for pre-selecting Google Drive files coming soon

Currently, Google Drive developers rely on the drive.file scope and the Google Picker API to optimize user experience and safety when creating their applications. To make it faster and easier for users to provide applications access to specific Drive files, the Google Picker API will introduce a new method to the Class view called setFileIds(fileIds). This method lets application developers present users with a picker that is pre-navigated to the specified file IDs the application is seeking access to, allowing faster consent for your users and a more continuous experience for your application.

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