2021.03.24 Inline comment - Brainstorm anytime, anywhere

🌸 What a beautiful view of the south, where blossoms bloom and friends reunite ~ To all our loyal “DingTalk Docs” partners, thank you for your patience and continued support 🤞 The March product update bulletin is finally here. Smart as you are, you may have already discovered some of our new features and experiences. Let me walk you through a detailed overview ~ This edition is packed with useful tips you don’t want to miss ~ Every one of them is a great helper for content creation and data processing!

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”Document Home”

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1. Document message cards in chats

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac Through thumbnails, the “real document content” is shown in real time, making it easy for team members to preview efficiently and decide on processing priorities.

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2. Brand new upgrade for DingTalk Docs Web

Supported platforms: Web Supports exit

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”DingTalk Docs”

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🎉 New features

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1. 💬 Inline comments are here — spark exciting discussions among members!

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac While reading a document, if you have a small question or get a new idea about a particular paragraph, you can now leave your instant thoughts through “Inline comment”! Authors will also receive timely notifications via “DingTalk Chats” so they can interact with you. “Inline comment” is a powerful tool for “efficient team meetings”. Send out your meeting materials beforehand, remind members to review and leave questions. During the meeting, you can focus on these comments for discussion — meetings become more focused and efficient. Our team at DingTalk uses it all the time. Give it a try!

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2. 🧬 Connect everything — all arranged this time!

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2.1 Insert to-do tasks & upgraded to-do experience

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view and edit only. Create to-do tasks directly within a document, linking the task list in the document with DingTalk To-Do. Assign tasks to people so that “every matter has a response, and every task has a follow-up”.

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2.2 Associate project Kanban

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view only. Associate project lists already created in DingTalk Projects into a document, with two-way sync, making it easier to follow up and review projects.

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2.3 Insert location

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view only. Insert a location directly into a document (currently supports Amap only) for easy viewing and click-to-locate.

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2.4 Insert online video

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view only. Insert an online video URL directly into a document (currently supports Youku and Bilibili) and play it directly within the document.

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2.5 Insert Drive files & upgraded attachment cards

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view only. Select Drive files directly within a document to upload. Simple and efficient — no more downloading to local first and then re-uploading to the document. Document attachment cards are upgraded with three preview views to meet different layout needs:

• Text view
• Card view
• Preview view

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2.6 Insert date control

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view and edit only. Insert a date control into a document. Complete date entry and modification in just two steps.

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2.7 Insert formulas

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view and edit only. Insert math formulas directly into a document with editing supported, improving content editing efficiency.

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2.8 Insert link cards

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac. Mobile currently supports view only. Paste a URL directly and display a content thumbnail card — visually appealing and easy to recognize.

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💡 Insertion tip: Quick insert while editing

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac Learn about the editor’s control insertion capabilities while editing a document, and quickly insert them — greatly improving content insertion efficiency.

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3. Layout tables support drag and drop for rows and columns

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac

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”Spreadsheet”

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🎉 Release notes

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1. Data security upgraded! “Lock: Restrict view”

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac desktop The “Lock Permission” feature in Spreadsheet, on top of restricting member editing, adds a powerful new capability: restrict member viewing! It is ideal for scenarios such as finance collecting confidential data, HR collecting personal profiles, and sales managing performance data, ensuring data security and control. For example, as a store manager, I need to track product sales volume and amount. So I created a “Mooncake Sales List” and invited store partners to fill it in together. However, for important marketing data such as “Sales Volume”, “Unit Price”, and “Amount”, I want only “myself and the deputy manager” to be able to edit and modify, while other partners are restricted from viewing — to prevent core data leaks and ensure data security. Here’s how to set it up:

1. Select the cell range you want to lock and click “Lock Cell”.
2. In the dialog, under “Specified people”, add the “Store Manager and Deputy Manager” as “Can view” or “Can edit”.
3. In the “Others” menu of the dialog, set “Restrict view”.

This way, from the perspective of other regular staff, they will not be able to view the confidential data in the corresponding area. Note:

• After setting “Restrict view”, members without view permission cannot, in addition to viewing the area data:
  • Download or copy spreadsheet data.
  • View history.
  • Retrieve locked cell data via formulas.
• When using “Find / Replace”, the locked area data is ignored by default.
• The user guide for “Lock Permission” can also be viewed by clicking “Toolbar - Lock - User Guide”.

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2. Deduplication! “Highlight Duplicates” is finally here

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac desktop When collecting data daily, you no longer need to worry about duplicate entries affecting organization efficiency, because “Highlight Duplicates” is here! Simply select the column you want to check for duplicates, turn on “Toolbar - Highlight Duplicates”, and all duplicate data will be revealed. Meanwhile, partners who are accustomed to using “Conditional Formatting” can also highlight duplicates via “Conditional Formatting - Highlight Cells - Duplicates”.

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3. “Number format” supports thousands separator and more date formats

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac desktop. Mobile supports display.

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🥳 Experience improvements

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1. Rows and columns support “drag and drop sorting”

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac desktop

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2. Text within the same cell supports different styles

Supported platforms: Windows, Mac desktop

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“Notes”

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🎉 New features

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1. Notes card

Supported platforms: Mobile iOS, Android

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