Recently I came across a nice post from Ravgeet Dhillon, which looked at how to Add Unsubscribe link in emails using Google Apps Script. The solution uses a Google Sheet and a Google Apps Script web app to add an unsubscribe link to emails. As I noted when shared via AppsScriptPulse this is a useful addition if your mailing needs comply with PECR or similar electronic communications regulation compliance.
Having recently updated my ‘Create a mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets’ in the Google Workspace Solution Gallery to handle inline images I thought it would be useful to show how this example can be extended to include a variation on Ravgeet’s post.
In this article I will showcase the way I deploy Google Apps Script code in an Enterprise environment. I will share the actual build file and the necessary steps and tools to reproduce my workflow. This approach does require Google Cloud Platform knowledge and a credit card. The instructions are high level, this article is not a codelab.
For those interested in scaling up their Google Apps Script development Jasper Duizendstra outlines how you can use Google Cloud Build for version control and Continuous Deployment (CD). As Jasper notes:
When the CD pipeline is in place it becomes easy to deploy the script, separate the responsibilities and support multiple versions and implementations of the code … the most important advantage of using CD is the mindset that it enables. It provides an environment where I feel confident and safe to create small incremental changes in my applications.
In this tutorial, we will cover creating a custom Table of Contents that lists your Google Sheets tabs on its own tab using Google Apps Script. This Table of Contents (TOC) will update whenever you open your sheet or choose to update it with a button.
As always a very detailed explanation of how this solution works from Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald.
Don’t have time to get to all your library duties? Need more staff? Create them using code! I work in a school library and could definitely do with some help around here, so let’s write some programs to streamline a few library duties and add some “virtual staff”.
In this post, we’ll create a small tool to help get word out to the school community about book recommendations and new releases/purchases in the library. The plan is to make use of a Google Sheet to pre-populate a bunch of data as time goes on and then have a Google Apps Script pull that data periodically, display it on our digital displays using Google Slides as well as to send email updates to the community.
Nice example for creating Google Slides from Google Sheets for digital signage. The post has a useful explanation of what is going on in the code for those interested to learn more.
I have programmed an application that searches for (or rather knows) the correct answers to the competition questions from the Kalendárium program, all using Google Cloud AI. I decided to write the entire application in Google Apps Script technology, which offers an online IDE editor, application operation in the cloud and the possibility of a quick connection to Google services. [auto-translated]
You’re going to have to hit Google Translate to read this post from Ivan Kutil, but it’s worth it is a nice example of how Google Apps Script can be used for orchestration. All the details are in the post and it’s also a nice reminder of the Parser library Ivan released in 2016, which makes it easy to scrape data from websites using UrlFetchApp (read more about the web scraping).
A common workflow solution in Google Apps Script is to use a Gmail draft message as a template for sending emails. For the user the benefit is they can draft a message in a familiar environment adding formatting without having to worry about writing HTML. A problem often encountered is the inclusion of inline images. This post looks at solving the issue of missing inline images.
With Google Drive, Apps Script, Bootstrap, and a little jQuery, you can develop an Image Library web application with search and download functionality!
Useful little tutorial if you are interested in learning how to interact with Google Drive files. The post is also a nice introduction into using the Bootstrap framework for building responsive web apps.
Provide your subscribers an option to opt-out of mailing lists by adding unsubscribe link using Google Apps Script.
A useful post on creating a system to allow users to indicate they wish to opt-out of further mailings (useful for PECR or similar electronic communications regulation compliance). The post has the broad steps and code needed for this solution and you will need to fill in some of the blanks like how to record the unsubscribe_hash in the Google Sheet.
The new Twitter API brings a much better way to get a list of publicly available Tweets in Google Sheets to retrieve Tweets and their details, including the username of the author.
Always nice to see when other web services feature Google Apps Script. This is a great example from Daniele Bernardi (@i_am_daniele), DevRel at Twitter, highlighting how Google Sheets custom functions can be used to interact with the Twitter API. The post has everything you need to know plus a link to a gist with all the code.
