I was checking out Google Apps, like I do almost every day, and I happened to find a spiffy new look to the place. It has finally started looking a bit more professional, rather than as if the interface was designed by elementary schoolers. Do have to say I liked the old look too, but Google does need to attract a slightly older crowd.
Turns out the Google Docs has now allowed the ability to share folders. If you put any doc in a folder it automatically becomes shared with everyone that has rights to the folder. Everything works like a breeze for sharing with individual users.
To make Google Apps enterprise/production ready it needs to focus in on groups. Rather than having to add each user individually a creator should just have to add the correct group from the domain and everything should work as if all users were added individually.
Sadly, this is not what I have observed. Even sharing just single docs within Google Docs does not work correctly. I share a document with a group, that is defined within the admin console, if I do not send an invitation with a link all members within the group will never see my shared document. A document will only show up inside docs if the user clicks on the link inside the invitation.
I understand for reasons against having the document be auto populated within Google Docs if it is shared with a group. If it is used in a enterprise people might go sharing crazy. Then you would never be able to find anything. Personally, I think there should be a setting that allows documents to be auto populated or not.
The same problem comes with sharing folders. Not the items within folders, but the folders themselves. I do not know if this is intentional, but I find it to be a flaw. Google hear my cries, I love Docs but fix the group sharing or it won't be enterprise/production worthy!