Google Workspace’s file lock stops colleagues messing together with your paperwork

Google Workspace customers are getting a brand new function 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 modifications when sharing with a number of staff members. Whereas this is not probably the most revolutionary function, it may definitely turn out to be useful — particularly for firms that use and share a variety of publicly viewable paperwork.

Locking a doc places it in read-only mode, which means viewers cannot edit, remark or go away options on it. The doc will stay on this read-only mode till unlocked by its proprietor. In a weblog submit, Google said that this new function will “streamline the method of proscribing recordsdata in Drive.”

Beforehand, you would lock down a doc or file when sharing it, or via a Google Drive API name. The brand new lock function simplifies issues: Proper-click on the file you’d prefer to lock, scroll to file data from the popup menu, and choose lock.

The file-locking function 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 function on September twentieth, with an identical 15-day rollout interval.