Tuesday, November 17, 2015

New Features in Google Calendar, Gmail and Drive

Restore Deleted Events in Google Calendar


Trash functionality provides an easy way for users to view, permanently delete, or restore individual and recurring deleted calendar events. Trash puts calendar users in control by letting them quickly reverse any event mishaps, and limits escalations to Google Apps admins.


Trash is accessible from the calendar's dropdown menu in the "My calendars" section as well as from Calendar Settings. This functionality is available for both primary calendars and secondary calendars for which people have edit rights.


Find ‘missing’ emails more easily in Gmail

When looking for an email, Gmail will now search in both the Trash and Spam folders. If a match is found, a footer at the bottom of search results will indicate the match and direct the user to view the messages.


In addition, if a search query is too general to return useful search results, a different footer will now be shown guiding the user to try refining their query using Gmail advanced search.


Finding Recent Document in Drive

Google Drive has introduced smarter sorting in Google Drive ‘Recent’ view. The new sorting experience adds a dynamically-generated view based on the actions of the person using Drive. Items will continue to be segmented into time-based sections (‘Today,’ ‘Earlier this week,’ etc), and will now indicate whether each item was opened, modified, or uploaded by the user directly. The smarter sorting ensures that items acted upon by the user are more likely to be shown than items acted upon by other collaborators.