Posted by Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager
A year ago, we partnered with loads of great developers to showcase their
add-ons for Google Docs. Add-ons have opened up a world of extra features for our users, from a student needing a
powerful tool for diagrams to a project manager looking for a handy way to
keep their team on track.
Today we’re releasing a couple of updates to help developers share their add-ons with an even wider audience
and give Google Apps IT admins more consistent control over which add-ons are used in their organizations.
Developers can now choose to make their add-ons for Docs, Sheets and Forms available for installation across entire domains, which automatically creates a Google Apps Marketplace listing that's easy for customers to find. It also means that admins can install these handy add-ons for their whole organization using just a couple of clicks.
And speaking of admins, we want to make sure they have the control they need when it comes to deciding which add-ons are best suited for their organizations and teams. For example, in particular cases — like in education — it might not be desirable to let all end-users install their own add-ons. With this update, admins will continue to have a “disable add-ons” option for their users, but they can also whitelist add-ons via the Google Apps Marketplace for their entire domain or a specific team.
With these updates, customers can now get all the add-ons they want with all the control they need.
Learn more about managing Google add-ons for your organization.
