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.
Great post from Jérémy Dessalines who has put together this tutorial for a custom workflow using a Apps Script Web App. The post covers triggers, the publication process and how to generate a unique ID and includes some great tips at the end.
This solution cleanse Google Sheet data by searching for specific words and replacing them with an alternative. As part of this the solution highlights cell changes with an alternative colour. This example uses ‘TextFinder’ rather than ‘For Loops’.
I use Google Apps Script to support staff and students in my job. I enjoy dabbling with creating tools to help with automation and I freely share my learning experiences on my blog, where I also have a number of useful Google Add-ons: www.pbainbridge.co.uk
A few days before publishing this post, I put a call out for some Beta testers to get free access to my new course Google Sheet: Learn the Essentials through 3 Detailed Projects.
I needed a way to provide coupon codes for free access to the course in exchange for some feedback and much-needed tutorials.
To do this, I created a Google Form. This contained some details and expectations, and then some details about the submitter and a consent checkbox at the end. If the submitter consented and hit submit I wanted them to get an email back with the coupon code.
In this tutorial, we will go through how to create a custom auto email response containing:
The submitter’s name in the greeting.
Your email message.
Your primary signature block from your Gmail account.
Bulk create Google Drive folders with a sub-folder from data given in a Google Sheet. Optional user permissions can be added.
Bulk create Google Drive folders from a Sheet of data
This tool and blog post is largely a continuation of this one for bulk creating Google Drive folders. The main difference being that there is an extra column to provide the name of your sub-folder. Note that the tool will try to create a sub-folder regardless of what is entered – as I was just aiming to create a version for the many requests I got from the previous blog post from people who wanted a sub-folder.
I use Google Apps Script to support staff and students in my job. I enjoy dabbling with creating tools to help with automation and I freely share my learning experiences on my blog, where I also have a number of useful Google Add-ons: www.pbainbridge.co.uk
Cleanse Google Sheet data by searching for specific words in a columns and replacing them with an alternative. Colour any cell changes to highlight. This is one of many ways of performing the task simply using loops.
A list of words to find and their replacement equivalent.
I use Google Apps Script to support staff and students in my job. I enjoy dabbling with creating tools to help with automation and I freely share my learning experiences on my blog, where I also have a number of useful Google Add-ons: www.pbainbridge.co.uk
show a processing status in a cell when looping through rows in google sheets using google apps script.
When working with small batches of data it can be useful to show the user that the data is being processed. Here is an example script from Sourabh Choraria which use SpreadsheetApp.flush() to force write updates to a Google Sheet. As this method relies on .setValue() instead of .setValues() it’s worth keeping in mind for bigger data sets that using HTMLService and a custom dialog or Speadsheet.toast()
If the .setValue()/.flush() Al from coda has provided this gist
To make this work, you need to add a Sparkline() function to your Google Sheet that references a hidden “For progress” column: pic.twitter.com/jk87wvuuyj
Christian Heilmann’s tweet – Feature request for Gmail: automatically find and follow the unsubscribe link in all highlighted emails – prompted me to build an automated system for unsubscribing your Gmail address from the bulk senders. Here’s how it looks…
This is an older example from Amit Labnol that recently pinged my Google Alerts from this Best Unroll.me Alternatives post. The source post from Amit has some nice details about how marketing emails are marked up and the code shared might be a nice starter for your own solution.
Google Sheets has a powerful find and replace function. But you may want to use Google Apps Script to do the same job. StackOverflow has a question on this. The accepted answer would require you to loop through all cells, find the text, replace it and post the new text back to the cell. Google Apps Script has a more powerful, and simpler, method called TextFinder.
Usual post highlighting the TextFinder method which you can use to find and replace text in Google Sheets. The post has more information about this method and how to use it.
