In this new era post Covid, to come back to work we have to maintain a certain quota of people at the office. At Devoteam G Cloud we had this needs and to be able to manage people at office we build a web app with Apps Script to manage team and people presence on site.
How google apps script has changed over the past 5 years. Episode 2 in a series of post covers the Properties Service and the Spreadsheet service
Bruce Mcpherson continues his look at changes in Google Apps Script over the last 5 years, this time looking at PropertiesService and SpreadsheetApp. This post is worth a read just to check you’ve not missed any new methods for working with Google Sheets, because over the last 5 years there have been many!
Sometimes you need to generate some fake data for a spreadsheet. In this post I’ll cover a few utilities in 2 separate libraries that can help with this.
Bruce Mcpherson has put together a Google Apps Script library which is a port of Faker.js and elements of d3.js to make it easier to generate random data in your projects. You can see the full list of Faker.js methods which includes a wide range from names/addresses to dates to just lorem text. The library can also generate various fake datasets, strings and selectors.
Learn how to find and replace text with a link in Google Docs with Google Apps Script Document App with 3 different scenarios.
So you are a citizen Google Apps Script developer and you’ve decided to make yourself a mail-merge-type project where you want to create new documents from a template. … Now you want to take it to the next level and replace the text with a hyperlink containing the text and the URL. You might be scratching your head wondering where the replaceTextWithLink() method is or why you can’t simply chain the setLinkUrl() method without making a hyperlink out of the entire body of the document.
Another one of Scott Donald’s very thorough tutorials, this one exploring link creation in Google Docs.
It’s been over 5 years since my book ‘Going Gas‘ was published, and Apps Script evolution means that a number of sections of it is now pretty out of date. I don’t think I have the energy to do a rewrite – so I’m going to do a critique, chapter by chapter, of where it’s now wrong as a way to show how much Apps Script has improved (or otherewise) over the years.
We recently highlighted how you could preview excerpts from Bruce Mcpherson’s ‘Going GAS’ book. Bruce has now followed up by using the book contents from 2016 to highlight differences in the current version of Google Apps Script.
Whether you’re moving from Microsoft Office to Google Docs or simply want to learn how to automate Docs with Google Apps Script, this practical guide shows you by example how to work with each of the major Apps Script services.
Bruce Mcpherson the author of Going Gas has recently highlighted in the Google Apps Script Community that a chuck of his book is currently available for free in the Google Books preview (133 of the 456 pages are available). Bruce highlights that since publication in 2016 there have been a number of changes in Google Apps Script most notably the move to modern JavaScript syntax in the V8 engine, but much of the content may still be of interest.
Last September, Tables launched in Area 120, Google’s internal incubator for experimental projects, with the goal of proving market demand for a solution to help teams organize and track work, and it was a success! Google Cloud has committed to investing in this product area long-term. Moving forward, the beta version of Tables will still be available until we release a fully-supported Google Cloud product – which we expect to complete in the next year.
If you are not familiar with the Tables Beta it is a collaborative data platform designed to make it easier for no/low coders to create workflows and automations. If you would like to see the Tables beta in action Co-founder & Product Lead, Carlin Yuen, joined us on Totally Unscripted in New workflow solutions with Tables and Google Apps Script.The Tables beta has so far been limited to users in the US. The source link provides more details about timelines and how non-US users can join the beta. [HT Ivan Kutil]
Sometimes things fail — that’s a fact of life and programming. So as a programmer, you’re going to have to write error-handling code. Thankfully TypeScript has some handy features which can help us to create simple and maintainable error-handling code.
James Elderfield recently joined us on Totally Unscripted to share some insights into the infrastructure used at Supermetrics used to support the development of their Google Sheets Add-on and Data Studio Connector. As part of their stack James highlighted how they used TypeScript to write code complied to use in Google Apps Script. This post isn’t Apps Script specific but provides some useful tips on using TypeScript for error handling.
Questa funzionalità permette di visualizzare, insieme al messaggio del bot, una tastiera virtuale con una serie di bottoni dove gli basterà cliccare su uno di essi per scegliere la sua risposta
[Google Translate: This feature allows you to view, together with the message of the bot, a virtual keyboard with a series of buttons where it will be enough to click on one of them to choose its response]
The accompanying video and post for this solution are in Italian and Google Translate might be required. This is a great resource and another example of a high quality video produced by the Apps Script community. The solution provides an overview of how you can display an inline keyboard within a Telegram Bot using a single Google Apps Script project.
Over half a million people, including marketers, data analysts, and data engineers, use Supermetrics to move data from popular marketing platforms (such as Facebook, Google Ads, and HubSpot) to Google Sheets, Google Data Studio and other destinations. With 10% of global online ad spend reported through Supermetrics and a growing distributed product engineering team, management and testing of their Apps Script deployments is key. In this episode of Totally Unscripted we speak to Supermetrics founder, CEO (and Apps Script developer), Mikael Thuneberg, and Supermetrics senior software developer James Elderfield to find out about Supermetrics development infrastructure and approaches to testing and monitoring.
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