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Creating an embedded interactive Chain Story app with Google Apps Script and Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

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In this tutorial, we are going to create an interactive story chain app that we can embed into a Google Site or your own site like WordPress.

Yagi uses a simple but very effective interactive story chain app to explore and explain some very powerful Apps Script functionality all developers should know about. This includes using the LockService which can be used to prevent concurrent access to sections of code. Yagi also highlights some recent discussions around the limitations of Web Apps and concurrent users. Click through to the source for all this and more.

Source: Creating an embedded interactive Chain Story app with Google Apps Script and Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets, V8, Advanced

Creating Unique Ranges from 2D Arrays in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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If you have ever done any work in Google Sheets you might have come across the incredibly useful UNIQUE function. This function can take a single row or multiple rows and generate a list of unique cell values.

Sometime you might have a use case where you need to replicate the UNIQUE functionality in Google Apps Script. … Whatever the case, knowing how to to create a unique array from a 1-dimensional array or a 2-dimensional array is an important part of your toolkit as a coding goat 🐐.

This tutorial will look at how to create this with modern Javascript that is incorporated into the Google Apps Script language.

Source: Creating Unique Ranges from 2D Arrays in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Tables, Advanced

Sentiment Analysis For Google Tables Using Goole Apps Script – Ben Collins

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Learn how to use Google Cloud’s Natural Language API to do sentiment analysis on tickets submitted to a Google Tables Support Issue Tracker. We’ll use Google Tables as the platform for our Support Tracker and Apps Script to connect to the Cloud Natural Language API.

Great example from Ben Collins building on the work of Alicia Williams which shows how you can interact with your Google Tables with Google Apps Script. As part of this solution Ben uses the new Tables Service, which is the latest Advanced Service to hit Google Apps Script, connecting to the Google Cloud Natural Language API. Click through to the source for all the details you need to get started.

Note: Google Tables beta is currently only available in the U.S.

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