Video showing the Properties and Cache Services available for Google Apps Script
The Properties and Cache Services are designed to hold data for use beyond a single run of a script.
The Legacy IDE had an option to see view and directly interact with the Script Properties. This is not available in the new IDE but the service still exists and can be interacted with via code.
The primary difference between the PropertiesService and CacheService is that key-value pairs in the Cache are automatically deleted after 25 minutes, while data in the PropertiesService persist until deleted via code (or manually from the Legacy IDE)
Interesting to see a growing number of video tutorials being produced by the App Script community. The latest we’ve come across comes from Spencer Farris who in this post provides an overview of the Properties and Cache service. Click through to the source post to watch the video and access additional resources.
How to create filters in Google Sheets using Google Apps Script.
There are lots of ways you can filter data in Google Sheets and in this post Aryan Irani uses SpreadsheetApp.newFilterCriteria() to create a filter and then copy the filtered data to a new sheet. The post contains everything you need to know to filter data in this way.
You’ve written a great Apps Script library and you want to know how many people are using it, and perhaps even which parts of the library they are using, and how often. Perhaps you have a new version out, and need to know whether anybody is still using the old version. You may also have a set of libraries and you want to know whether users have flipped to the new version. All these things are important to know, but impossible to find out using the Apps script platform as is.
Bruce Mcpherson provides a detailed solution for tracking Google Apps Script library usage using the Properties Service. The source post contains everything you need to integrate this solution into your existing libraries as well as a quick way to chart usage.
We are back and for the next episode of Totally Unscripted revisiting Google no/low code application development platform AppSheet. We are joined by Christian Schalk (Developer Advocate, Google Cloud) to look at the new AppSheet Automation, which uses Google AI to make it easier to automate business processes.
By making it easier to automate processes, AppSheet Automation helps users reduce IT overheads and save money. Automation also includes the ability to build and embed rich AppSheet views in Gmail to perform approvals on the go.
Tune in live to find out everything a Google Workspace developer needs to know about this and other new features in AppSheet.
Habitica is a self-improvement web application with game mechanics overlaid in order to help the player keep track of and remain motivated to achieve their goals.
The game is laid out in the form of an RPG, in which the player collects items such as gold and armor to become more powerful. Rewards are achieved through maintaining real-life goals, in the form of Habits, Dailies, and To-Dos.
Can’t say that I’ve come across the self-improvement web app Habitica before, but good to know there is a long list of Google Apps Script powered extensions, add-ons, and customizations.
Join this Ask Me Anything Session to get answers from the Google Workspace Development Platform and Google Workspace Developer Relations teams about how to integrate with your own solutions.
As part of Google I/O several of the Google team are hosting a Google Workspace developers ‘ask me anything’ session. The session panel includes Matt Izatt (Google Workspace Product Manager), Olaf Hubel (Google Workspace DevRel Manage), Charles Maxson (Google Developer Advocate and Totally Unscripted co-host) and Steven Bazyl Google Workspace Developer Relations Engineer. Follow the link to sign-up and follow the session.
How to use the Notion API with Google Apps Script to connect Gmail, Google Forms, and Google Sheets with your Notion workspace.
Notion, my absolute favorite tool for storing all sorts of things from web pages to code snippets to recipes, just got better. They’ve released a public API and thus it will be a lot easier for developers to read and write to their Notion workspace from external apps.
For note keeping fans of Notion Amit Agarwal shares some basic code to interact with the Notion API. Amit also has wrapped this into a new private beta Gmail Add-on that you can see in the post with a link to request early access.
JavaScript’s developments – from web dev to machine learning – make it a perfect language to learn for SEO. Here’s what you need to know.
“Apps Script may offer a less intimidating way to learn to code because you can use it in apps like Google Sheets which are the bread and butter of technical SEO”
This is a more general post highlighting the benefits of learning Javascript particularly if you work in the field of SEO. Included is a shout out to Google Apps Script and links to some examples from the SEO/Apps Script community, which if you’ve not seen is worth checking out.
Have you ever collect data with google sheets where the sheets are shared with everyone in your organization for inputting their weekly, monthly data such as performance reporting, inventory reporting, or KPI data reporting? How good if these repetitive actions can be automated and the final report can be emailed out to respective people (such as your boss) every month? Yes, this article can help you to achieve this target!
This is a nice tutorial if you are looking for a quick way to send Google Sheets charts by email.
At the end of this article, you will know how to create a workflow app, based on a Google Form that send an email to be approved or deny including logging of who is approving or denying with Apps Script.
