We recently launched new tools in G Suite like
Explore,
Action items, and other features to help your teams save time and focus on what’s important: creating impactful work, quicker. We know time spent re-creating files in the workplace takes away from the time your team can spend collaborating and achieving results.
That’s why, today, we’re introducing custom
templates in G Suite for the Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms files your teams use the most.
Simply submit files to shared template galleries in the
Docs,
Sheets,
Slides, and
Forms home screens for your co-workers to adapt and use as needed. With these customizable templates, your teams can focus less on formatting and more on driving impact and sharing success.
Note that if you disabled template submissions to the
old Google Drive templates gallery in the Admin console, users in your organization will not be able to see and use the new galleries when they launch. You can enable the new galleries for your users in the Admin console (
Apps > G Suite > Drive and Docs > Templates). You can also configure the categories available for your organization’s templates from that same section in the Admin console.
In addition, G Suite for Business and Education customers can require templates be
approved before they appear in the galleries, or prevent end users from submitting new templates altogether. These features are not enabled by default, so you’ll need to
update your settings if you want to moderate or restrict template submissions to the galleries.
The
old templates gallery will be shut down in early 2017, giving you and your users time to transition to the new galleries. We’ll let you know the exact date with a message in the old gallery, but it will not take place before February 1st, 2017.
An important note regarding this rollout: To give you a chance to update your settings and curate your organization’s template galleries, we’re rolling out these features (both in the Admin console and in the home screens) to
all admins, regardless of their release track, starting today. We’ll launch to end users on the Rapid release track today as well, with the rollout to end users on the Scheduled release track starting on December 7th.
Launch DetailsRelease track:- G Suite administrators
- Launching to both Rapid and Scheduled release
- G Suite end users
- Launching to Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming on December 7th
Editions:- Template galleries
- Available to all G Suite editions
- Moderation and restriction capabilities
- Available to G Suite for Business and Education customers only
Rollout pace:Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)
Impact:All end users
Action:Admin action suggested/FYI
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