Google Workspace customers are getting a brand new characteristic to stop colleagues from messing with their paperwork. Customers will now have the power to lock their Google Drive recordsdata, which ought to assist scale back undesirable commentary and adjustments when sharing with a number of group members. Whereas this is not essentially the most revolutionary characteristic, it may definitely come in useful — particularly for corporations that use and share a number of publicly viewable paperwork.
Locking a doc places it in read-only mode, which means viewers cannot edit, remark or depart ideas on it. The doc will stay on this read-only mode till unlocked by its proprietor. In a weblog put up, Google acknowledged that this new characteristic will “streamline the method of proscribing recordsdata in Drive.”
Beforehand, you could possibly lock down a doc or file when sharing it, or by a Google Drive API name. The brand new lock characteristic simplifies issues: Proper-click on the file you’d wish to lock, scroll to file data from the popup menu, and choose lock.
The file-locking characteristic has already been rolled out to some Fast Launch domains and can proceed over the following 15 days. People on Scheduled Launch domains can count on to begin seeing the characteristic on September 20th, with an analogous 15-day rollout interval.
