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Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ramalingam Ganapathy
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Learning Google Apps Script

By: Ramalingam Ganapathy

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 (16 chapters)
Learning Google Apps Script
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending an e-mail notification on Form submission


Imagine if you created a Form and presented it to many users. It would be tedious to open the response Sheet every time to verify whether any user has submitted the Form or not. The problem would be worse if you created many Forms and sent them to many users. It will be helpful receiving a notification e-mail whenever there is a Form submission.

For this task, create a Form with three fields as shown in the following screenshot:

Submit the test data from a live form. Your submitted data will be saved in a response Sheet named something like Form Responses 1. The column headers will be as per your Form fields as shown in the following screenshot. Data may vary as per your input.

In the script file, you need to make the following changes:

  1. Enter the sendEmail function mentioned from the following code.

  2. Replace the receiver's e-mail ID. If you run this function, then it will send an e-mail with the last submitted data (bottom-most row) in the response...