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title: "Easily managing time-driven triggers using Google Apps Script and the TriggerApp library"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2023-08-03T19:39:11+00:00
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description: "In Google Apps Script time-driven triggers are a powerful way to automate tasks including Google Sheets. However, managing them can be difficult, especially if you have a lot of triggers and need triggers to run at different times and frequencies. The TriggerApp library from Kanshi Tanaike makes this a lot easier and this post includes a number of examples that are easy to copy/modify for your own script projects. The post covers the following scenarios: * Execute 2 functions at specific dates and times * Execute a function with a specific cycle between specific times between specific dates * Execute 3 functions with a specific cycle between specific times on weekdays * Send an email on a birthday every year * Execute specific functions on specific weekdays in a week * Execute 6 different functions every 10 minutes from “09:00:00” to “11:50:00” in order * Opening hours of Google Form from 09:00 to 17:00 on Weekdays * Opening Hours of Google Spreadsheet from 09:00 to 17:00 on Weekdays * Execute specific functions at 09:00 on Monday to Friday at the beginning of specific months The source code for the library is on GitHub and includes documentation on all the methods it uses."
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# Easily managing time-driven triggers using Google Apps Script and the TriggerApp library

![Easily managing time-driven triggers using Google Apps Script and the TriggerApp library](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2023/08/0_rsG1PE0w0oebAQUS-1.png)

> Google Apps Script can be executed by time-driven triggers. This is one of the very important points for taking cloud computing. But, the scenarios using time-driven triggers are different for each user, and there are a lot of situations for using time-driven triggers. But, when a script for implementing time-driven triggers is developed, each script is different and complicated. In this report, I would like to introduce easily managing time-driven triggers using a Google Apps Script library.

In Google Apps Script time-driven triggers are a powerful way to automate tasks including Google Sheets. However, managing them can be difficult, especially if you have a lot of triggers and need triggers to run at different times and frequencies. The [TriggerApp library**](https://github.com/tanaikech/TriggerApp) from Kanshi Tanaike makes this a lot easier and this post includes a number of examples that are easy to copy/modify for your own script projects. The post covers the following scenarios:

- Execute 2 functions at specific dates and times
- Execute a function with a specific cycle between specific times between specific dates
- Execute 3 functions with a specific cycle between specific times on weekdays
- Send an email on a birthday every year
- Execute specific functions on specific weekdays in a week
- Execute 6 different functions every 10 minutes from “09:00:00” to “11:50:00” in order
- Opening hours of Google Form from 09:00 to 17:00 on Weekdays
- Opening Hours of Google Spreadsheet from 09:00 to 17:00 on Weekdays
- Execute specific functions at 09:00 on Monday to Friday at the beginning of specific months

The source code for the library is on GitHub and includes documentation on all the methods it uses.

Source: *[Easily Managing Time-Driven Triggers Using Google Apps Script*](https://medium.com/google-cloud/easily-managing-time-driven-triggers-using-google-apps-script-7fa48546b4e7)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/08/easily-managing-time-driven-triggers-using-google-apps-script-and-the-triggerapp-library/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2023/08/easily-managing-time-driven-triggers-using-google-apps-script-and-the-triggerapp-library/)*