Google Workspace Community Roundup: April 2022

Lauren_vdv · 05-05-2022 03:08 PM

Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest news and upcoming events, along with new Community feature updates.

Introducing a new Community content series: Tuesday Tips

We're excited to share with you all a new content series in the Google Workspace Community: Tuesday Tips! These posts are designed for Workspace admins in charge of set-up and adoption of Workspace at their companies. Each month, we'll have a different theme. This month we're kicking it off with hybrid work! Check out Tip #1 here.

With our focus on hybrid work this month, we want to hear from you! What does hybrid work mean to you? Add your thoughts to the comments.

Bonus: Share a photo of your workspace for a chance to be featured in our next Community Monthly Roundup! We'd love to see how you're making hybrid work, work 👩‍💻

Join us for AppSheet Office Hours on May 19th

For app creators, expressions are a powerful way to customize behavior and add sophisticated logic throughout your app, from incorporating conditional statements and managing lists, to extracting data from images, detecting user details, and much more.

However, it can be challenging to know which expressions to use where, and the best way to build them into your app to deliver the results you want.

Join us for AppSheet Office Hours on May 19th, where our experts will deep dive into all things AppSheet expressions, including:

Types of expressions and when to use them
How to build and test expressions
Common use cases and live demos

As always, you’ll have the opportunity to ask any questions (even if they’re not directly related to the session topic) and receive answers live from AppSheet experts. Pro tip: the best way to get your questions answered is by adding them in advance to the comments section of the event page here!

Get your guide to the Google Workspace Change Management Methodology (plus a handy checklist!)

To help address the challenges around change management, here's an infographic summarizing the best practices outlined in Google Workspace’s change management methodology, plus a checklist for effective change and long-term success.

In case you missed it: The Google Workspace Summit

The Google Workspace Summit aired live on Wednesday, May 4th, featuring Google executives, customers, and partners sharing the latest collaboration tools and innovations that can empower your teams to do their best work.

In case you missed it, have no fear... the recordings are here! Catch the sessions you couldn't attend, share your favorite sessions with your colleagues, and explore additional demo videos at your own pace here.

Have questions? Feel free to add a comment below and someone from the Community or the Google Workspace team will be happy to help.

Top five contributors in April

We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in the Community's discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of April. Please meet our top five contributors:

Thank you @icrew, @KAM, @StephenHind, @kim_nilsson, and @Jan-Carlos!

Plus, our special shoutout for this month goes out to @kim_nilsson , @mariom , and @KAM for sharing the most kudos this month. Thanks for showing your appreciation!

Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.

Top three conversations in April

Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:

Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Workspace forums and join the conversation or start something new.

Community feature updates in April

The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Here are some recent updates to our Community features:

1. Loaded activity feed remains

When you click the "Load more" button on an Activity feed (like this one on the Google Workspace Community home page), you're shown 10 additional posts in the feed. Previously, if you clicked on a post or went to a different Community page, and then clicked the back button in your browser, you would be taken back to the Activity feed page, but the additional loaded posts were no longer visible.

We've updated this behavior so that when you click the back button and return to the Activity feed page, all the additional posts that you loaded by selecting "Load more" are visible. With this change, you can more easily go from the Activity feed to the posts you're interested in reading and back again to the Activity feed without losing your spot.

2. Line, paragraph, and quote spacing

To help make it easier to read Community content, we've made a few updates to the spacing between lines, paragraphs, and quotes.

First, from the example below, you can see that the intra-paragraph and inter-paragraph spacing was previously very similar, making it difficult to differentiate the two.

Now however, the intra-paragraph line spacing is closer together and the inter-paragraph spacing is further apart, thereby creating a more visible distinction.

This is also true for lines between bulleted items. Spacing between one bulleted/numbered item to the next bulleted/numbered item used to be the same as the spacing between lines within the same bulleted/numbered item. So, we've increased the space between one bulleted/numbered item to the next so you can more easily see the difference between separate bulleted/numbered items.

Lastly, when using block quotes, the spacing between text and the block quote used to be very close together, making it difficult to see the difference between the text and the quote. We've updated this so now, there's larger spacing and an easier differentiation between the two.

3. Blue arrow added to the navigation bar

To help make the Community easier and faster to navigate, we've added a blue arrow button to the navigation bar, indicating that there are more items to see even when the size of your browser is smaller and not able to show all items in the navigation bar at once.

4. Reading direct messages on mobile

We love how many of you participate in the Community on the go, which is why we've been focusing on improving the mobile experience. In particular, we've updated the user interface for direct messages on mobile so that you can scroll to see the entire message (previously, only a small section of the message was visible).

Community update coming soon...

To help create a simpler and more streamlined Community experience, we'll be combining the existing Workspace Q&A and Workspace Discussion forums into a single forum called "Workspace Q&A." Here, you can continue to ask questions and find answers about Google Workspace solutions, engage in discussions with your peers and Googlers, and share knowledge about all things Google Workspace.

With this change, we'll also be cleaning up and consolidating the Labels used to categorize and organize posts. You can expect to see this change take place by the second week of May.

Also please note that if you've posted in the Workspace Discussions forum before, you may receive an email notifying you that your post(s) have been moved to the Workspace Q&A forum.

We hope you enjoy our new feature updates and thank you to all our Community members who continue to make this space an engaging and informative place to be. If you have any feedback, please feel free to add your thoughts to the Community Feedback forum here or add a comment directly to this post.

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Thanks everyone. Until next time!

The Google Cloud Community Team