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Learning Google Apps Script

Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ganapathy
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Learning Google Apps Script

Learning Google Apps Script

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By: Ganapathy
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Overview of this book

Google Apps Script is a cloud-based scripting language based on JavaScript to customize and automate Google applications. Apps Script makes it easy to create and publish add-ons in an online store for Google Sheets, Docs, and Forms. It serves as one single platform to build, code, and ultimately share your App on the Web store. This book begins by covering the basics of the Google application platform and goes on to empower you to automate most of the Google applications. You will learn the concepts of creating a menu, sending mails, building interactive web pages, and implementing all these techniques to develop an interactive Web page as a form to submit sheets You will be guided through all these tasks with plenty of screenshots and code snippets that will ensure your success in customizing and automating various Google applications This guide is an invaluable tutorial for beginners who intend to develop the skills to automate and customize Google applications
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Introducing Google Apps Scripts
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1. Introducing Google Apps Scripts
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Google Applications
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Google Apps Script
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Google Drive
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Gmail
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Google Calendar
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Google Docs
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Google Sheets
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Google Apps services
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Script projects
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Google Forms
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Summary
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2. Creating Basic Elements
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2. Creating Basic Elements
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Creating a clickable button
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Showing toast when a button is clicked
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Creating a custom menu
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Creating a sidebar
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Creating an Add-ons menu
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Creating a modal dialog
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Creating a modeless dialog
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Debugging your script
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3. Parsing and Sending E-mails
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3. Parsing and Sending E-mails
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Creating Gmail Contacts by script
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Accessing Sheet, cell, range, and offset
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Reading and writing the Sheet data
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Building a Gmail Contact search application
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Building the Gmail parser application
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Properties service
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Downloading Gmail attachments to Drive
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Sending e-mails using the MailApp service
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Sending an e-mail notification on Form submission
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Creating triggers manually
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Creating and deleting triggers by script
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Forwarding e-mails if the specific keyword is found in the message body
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Sending e-mail with attachments
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Embedding inline images in an e-mail message
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Building an e-mail merger application
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4. Creating Interactive Forms
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4. Creating Interactive Forms
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Creating Forms using script
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Publishing the script as a web application
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HtmlService
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Creating a Form using HtmlService
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Submitting form using Google script API method
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Creating forms using add-ons CSS and jQuery libraries
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Creating an e-voting application
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Creating a ticket reservation application
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5. Creating Google Calendar and Drive Applications
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5. Creating Google Calendar and Drive Applications
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The CalendarApp class
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Enabling advanced Google services
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The DriveApp class
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6. Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications
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6. Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications
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The UrlFetchApp class
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RSS and Atom feeds
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The LanguageApp class
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Creating a document reviewing and instant inline commenting application
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7. Creating Interactive Webpages
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7. Creating Interactive Webpages
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Creating a web app to render Sheet data as HTML
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Creating a web app to return JSON
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Converting Sheet data as a PDF file
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Sending an HTTP/HTTPS request with query string
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Creating RSS feed using ContentService
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Creating a file upload application
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Creating an employee timesheet application
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8. Building a Workflow Application
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8. Building a Workflow Application
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Order processing workflow – steps explained
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Configuring Google Sheets
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Creating the Order form
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Enhancing the Order form
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Creating the dispatch form
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Dispatching the articles
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Enabling the user to acknowledge the article delivery
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9. More Tips and Tricks and Creating an Add-on
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9. More Tips and Tricks and Creating an Add-on
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Overcoming the "script exceeded maximum execution time" error
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Configuring your script project to use external libraries
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Using JSDoc annotations
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Using the OAuth open source library
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Creating, testing, and publishing add-ons
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Other useful links
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Index

Creating a custom menu

You might be wondering whether you can execute the greeting function without the help of the button. The answer is yes. In the script editor, there is a Run menu. If you click on Run | greeting, then the greeting function will be executed and the message box will open.

Creating a button for every function may not be feasible. Although you cannot alter or add items to the application's standard menu (except the Add-ons menu) such as File, Edit, View, and so on, you can add custom menus and menu items.

For this task, create a new Google Docs document or open an existing document. Open the script editor and type these two functions:

function createMenu() {
  DocumentApp.getUi()
   .createMenu("PACKT")
   .addItem("Greeting","greeting")
   .addToUi();
}

function greeting() {
  var ui = DocumentApp.getUi();
  ui.alert("Greeting", "Hello World!", ui.ButtonSet.OK);
}

In the first function, you are using the DocumentApp...

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