New Google Docs API, an Excellent Enabler for Paperwork Processing
Google released an API on Feb 11, 2019, that allows to keep work moving between G Suite documents and applications. Already many companies have started to use it. This new API is accessible to G Suite users and is aimed at increasing work efficiency.
The new Google Docs API has been released by Google through which automated processes can be set up within G Suite. Netflix and Mailchimp are already using it. Google has also announced the upcoming enhancement of the context menu in Gmail.
Business enterprises deal with documents including invoices, proposals, legal contracts, agreements and reports on a daily basis. However, the workflows needed to run a business often connect to content and services that reside outside of these documents. The Google Docs API aims to help by allowing businesses to, for example, generate invoices automatically and programmatically add information like order numbers when a balance is due, send the notification to stakeholders, etc.
The creation of invoices, quotes and other legal documents is automated in Google Docs. Many applications are now making APIs available that companies can use to automate common word-processing tasks, including the facility for the creation of mass documents.
The Google Docs API makes it possible, among other things, to add to a document data provided by a user or a database at various stages of a process. "Programmatic changes to the same document over time, or multiple documents at a time, can simplify your workflow," says Google. The Google Docs API is also used to import and export documents from a content management system (for example, wikis or blogs), so as to enable collaboration within Docs without leaving the system. The API is available and accessible by default to all G Suite users.
