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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

Creating a web app to render Sheet data as HTML


We will create an application to return Sheet data as HTML in the browser. Create a Sheet, rename it as Data, and populate it with some test data as shown in the next screenshot. You can populate the Sheet with any random data with the three columns named First Name, Last Name, and Full Name:

In the Code.gs file, create the doGet function as shown here:

function doGet() {
  /*
   *  This spreadsheet may not be active while this function
   *  executes, so you cannot get access to active spreadsheet,
   *  use open by id.
   *
   */
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp
      .openById("Replace with this spreadsheet id");

  var SheetData = ss.getSheetByName("Data");
  
  var data = SheetData.getDataRange().getValues();
  
  var html = '<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><table border=1>';
  
  // Each row data passed as argument to the anonymous function.
  data.forEach(function(row){
    html += '<tr>';
    html += '<td>' + row...