Admin features for space management via the Chat API are now generally available
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Find and delete inactive spaces: Using spaces.search, you can find spaces that haven’t been used since a specified date and time and then delete them.
- Onboard and offboard users: Automatically add new users to relevant spaces and remove them from spaces when they leave or change roles.
- Audit external members: Monitor and control access to your organization's data by identifying and removing external members from sensitive conversations.
- Lookup and update space details: Easily manage space information like names, descriptions, and guidelines.
- Verify user membership and upgrade roles: Manage user access and roles within spaces.
- And more — please refer to our developer guidance for even more information.
Getting started
- Admins and developers: Use our Developer Documentation to learn how to authenticate and authorize using administrator privilege, managing Google Chat spaces as a Workspace admin, and searching for and managing Google Chat spaces for your Google Workspace organization.
- End users: There is no end user impact or action required.
Rollout pace
- Available now.
Availability
- Available for all Google Workspace customers
Resources
- Developer Documentation: Authenticate and authorize using administrator privileges
- Developer Documentation: Search for and manage Google Chat spaces for your Google Workspace organization
- Developer Documentation: Authenticate and authorize Chat apps and Google Chat API requests
- Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage spaces in the Google Admin console
- Google Workspace Updates Blog: Manage spaces at scale with new Chat API functionality
- Google Workspace Updates Blog: Additional admin space management capabilities in Google Chat API are now available in Developer Preview Program
- Google Chat Developer Release Notes