This will be nice until they take it away...
Since this is GSuite-focused, It likely won't be removed without a long period of prior notice.
Google Docs gets an API for task automation
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#12This will be nice until they take it away...
Yeah, they gave us enough reasons not to integrate them into our daily lives. Keep off!
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#13Do Google Doc features really impact the community enough warrant a post? Just seems like marketing to me.
Useful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).
The features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.
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#14We spent a lot of time and money building a document generation add-on to our platform. It seems that money might have been better used elsewhere!
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Useful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).
The features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.
I don’t think I need to expound on why one shouldn’t rely on Google Docs-specific features for business processes.
Will the feature you need last longer than Wave? Or Inbox? Will you get a shutdown notice as bad as that for the Google+ API?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.
I don’t think I need to expound on why one shouldn’t rely on Google Docs-specific features for business processes. Will the feature you need last longer than Wave? Or Inbox? Will you get a shutdown notice as bad as that for the Google+ API?
Maybe? But what's the average life expectancy of a particular workflow? As long as the feature outlives my workflow, I'm a happy camper.
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#18I do a lot of Office automation. It's nice to know that similar can now be done with Google Docs.
I found there to be a lot of demand in document automation especially in the real estate world. What's your experience been like, just wondering?
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#19Does this mean managed bibliographies will finally become a reality in google docs? That’s the only thing keeping me from using it much.
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#20Oh wow, this is pretty cool. I was actually planning to build a Google Docs plugin for my PDF templating product [1], and the UI was going to be very similar. They seem have a pretty simple API with limited types and field validation, so maybe there's still room for a more powerful competitor (that also has support for e-signatures.)
But it's really interesting to see how competitors evolve over time. Now HelloSign has been acquired by Dropbox, and Google Docs has launched their own document generation API.