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!
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since my book ‘Going Gas‘ was published, and Apps Script evolution means that a number of sections of it is now pretty out of date.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.
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.
Find out how to developing a market leading Google Workspace Add-on at 1200 PDT / 1500 EDT / 2000 GMT+1 on Thursday 10 June 2021 and tune in live to join the conversation with our guest!
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.
Totally Unscripted is back on the 13 May at the usual time (1200 PDT / 1500 EDT / 2000 GMT+1) and in this episode we look at Managing Google Apps Script applications in large enterprise environments. In this episode we are joined by Niek Waarbroek (CTO & Partner at NextNovate) and Jasper Duizendstra (Google Cloud Architect at duizendstra.com) who will share their approaches for managing the design, development and support process for the applications they build for their customers. As part of this show Jasper will also demonstrate his fully serverless, continuous delivery pipeline based on the Cloud IDE, Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Build, git and clasp.
I’ve noticed that several Google Apps Script users are looking for a secure way to restrict access to their Web App. In my case I am looking for a way to let everyone have access to some functions of the web app, while a control panel must be reserved for the administrator (me).
I wanted to share my approach that makes use of the novelty introduced in GAS on March 15, 2021.
Interesting thread in the Google Apps Script Google Group community discussing approaches to creating Web Apps with admin interfaces. Follow the source link for more information and the full discussion.
Last month Google announced the general availability of alternate runtimes for Google Workspace Add-ons. With alternative runtimes, developers can write Add-ons in any language and on any infrastructure, and then publish them to the Google Workspace Marketplace. In this episode we are joined by Riël Notermans, owner of Zzapps (and Google Developer Expert) and Steven Bazyl (Developer Relations, Google Cloud). Riël, whose teams have been developing on Google Workspace for over a decade, will share his team’s key takeaways on Alternate Runtimes and Steven will provide additional tips on getting started including the GWAO Card Builder.
In this episode we are going to delve into the topic of how you discover, learn and can share Google Apps Script projects, tips and tricks. We hope we can give you some useful advice if you, friends and colleagues are just starting out coding with Apps Script, or tips if you have been coding for a while and want to improve your Apps Script knowledge. For this episode we’ve got two great guest Chanel Greco – saperis (Founder & CEO) and regular Apps Script contributor Bruce Mcpherson, who’s recent work on the visual Google Apps Script explorer tool, scrviz, is providing developers with new ways to explore and replicate existing Apps Script projects.
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In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Google Developers Experts Laura Taylor and Denis Valášek to talk about Google Chat and opportunities to develop Google Chat bots and conversational interfaces with Google Dialogflow. We’ll cover everything that you need to know to get started, opportunities and pitfalls.
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