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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

The DriveApp class


This class allows you to create, search, and modify files and folders in your Drive.

For reference documentation on the DriveApp class, refer to the website: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/drive/drive-app?hl=en.

Creating customized PDF files

Imagine that you need to create customized PDF files from the Sheet or external data. We can create PDF files from the HTML template. You simply need to format column headers and put some sample data in a new Sheet (AddressBook) as shown in the following screenshot:

Create the createPdfs function in the Code.gs file as listed here:

function createPdfs(){
  
  // 0 based column numbers
  const NAME = 0;
  const TITLE = 1;
  const COMPANY = 2;
  const ADDRESS = 3;
  const CITY = 4;
  const ZIP_PIN = 5;
  
  
  /* Get data from the sheet */
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
  /*
   * Alternatively you can get data * from an external CSV file or anything else....