Learning Google Apps Script

Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ramalingam Ganapathy

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Learning Google Apps Script

By: Ramalingam 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

Learning Google Apps Script

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

Free Chapter

Introducing Google Apps Scripts

Gmail

Summary

Creating Basic Elements

Creating a clickable button

Showing toast when a button is clicked

Creating a custom menu

Creating a sidebar

Creating an Add-ons menu

Creating a modal dialog

Creating a modeless dialog

Debugging your script

Summary

Parsing and Sending E-mails

Creating Gmail Contacts by script

Accessing Sheet, cell, range, and offset

Reading and writing the Sheet data

Building a Gmail Contact search application

Building the Gmail parser application

Properties service

Downloading Gmail attachments to Drive

Sending e-mails using the MailApp service

Sending an e-mail notification on Form submission

Creating triggers manually

Creating and deleting triggers by script

Forwarding e-mails if the specific keyword is found in the message body

Sending e-mail with attachments

Embedding inline images in an e-mail message

Building an e-mail merger application

Summary

Creating Interactive Forms

Creating Forms using script

Publishing the script as a web application

HtmlService

Creating a Form using HtmlService

Submitting form using Google script API method

Creating forms using add-ons CSS and jQuery libraries

Creating an e-voting application

Creating a ticket reservation application

Summary

Creating Google Calendar and Drive Applications

The CalendarApp class

Enabling advanced Google services

The DriveApp class

Summary

Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications

The UrlFetchApp class

RSS and Atom feeds

The LanguageApp class

Creating a document reviewing and instant inline commenting application

Summary

Creating Interactive Webpages

Creating a web app to render Sheet data as HTML

Creating a web app to return JSON

Converting Sheet data as a PDF file

Sending an HTTP/HTTPS request with query string

Creating RSS feed using ContentService

Creating a file upload application

Creating an employee timesheet application

Summary

Building a Workflow Application

Order processing workflow – steps explained

Configuring Google Sheets

Creating the Order form

Enhancing the Order form

Creating the dispatch form

Dispatching the articles

Enabling the user to acknowledge the article delivery

Summary

More Tips and Tricks and Creating an Add-on

Overcoming the "script exceeded maximum execution time" error

Configuring your script project to use external libraries

Using JSDoc annotations

Using the OAuth open source library

Creating, testing, and publishing add-ons

Creating a sidebar

A sidebar is a static dialog box and is included on the right-hand side of the document editor window. To create a sidebar, type the following code in the editor:

function onOpen() {
  var htmlOutput = HtmlService
  .createHtmlOutput('<button onclick="alert(\'Hello World!\');">Click Me</button>')
  .setTitle('My Sidebar');

  DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(htmlOutput);
}

In the preceding code, you are using HtmlService and invoking its method createHtmlOutput then consecutively invoking the setTitle method. To test this code, run the onOpen function or reload the document. The sidebar will open in the right-hand side of the document window as shown in the following screenshot. The sidebar layout size is a fixed one, which means you cannot change, alter, or resize it.

The button in the sidebar is an HTML element, not a GAS element, and if clicked, it opens the browser interface's alert box.

Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ramalingam Ganapathy

Learning Google Apps Script

By: Ramalingam Ganapathy

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