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Loop delete specific rows with counter

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Example table with specific rows to delete

Example table with specific rows to delete

Table with row 3 now deleted and data shifted up

Table with row 3 now deleted and data shifted up

The following Google Apps Script has been created to help with a recent difficulty I was having with deleting rows containing a specific value, where the loop was losing the row position due to the spreadsheet data all shifting up a row each time one was deleted. Some searching online suggested looping through a spreadsheet in reverse (from bottom up) to avoid the shift, but that seems more like a workaround than a direct solution …

Source: The Gift of Script: Loop delete specific rows with counter

Snippet, Solutions, Sheets

Data Validation – check for blank cells

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The following Google Apps Script code was developed as a tool to check that all the necessary data existed in a spreadsheet before another function was triggered. The reason for this was that if any data was missing it would affect the student Group files I was creating (eg no email address or name) that would eventually prevent further functions from running at a later date.

Source: The Gift of Script: Data Validation – check for blank cells

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Google Apps Script snippet for Google Sheets to view json strings in a modal dialog

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View json strings in a modal dialog

View json strings in a modal dialog. Activate the cell that contains a JSON string Click menu item A foldable JSON will be shown in the modal dialog

Handy little Google Apps Script snippet from Riël Notermans (Zzapps) that makes it easier to view any JSON you are storing in a Google Sheets cell.

Source: Zzapps/google_sheets_json_viewer

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5 Google Sheets Script Functions You Need to Know

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Google Apps scripting is a background scripting tool that works not only in Google Sheets but also Google Docs, Gmail, Google Analytics, and nearly every other Google cloud service. It lets you automate those individual apps, and integrate each of those apps with each other.

Source: 5 Google Sheets Script Functions You Need to Know

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Google Apps Script Development – Best Practices – Andrew Roberts

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This is an overview of the various techniques and best practices I have evolved in developing Google Apps Scripts over the years. Of course Google have got a few suggestions of their own, and there are plenty of more general …

This includes some good design pattern considerations for Apps Script projects as well as links to testing libraries, boilerplate frameworks, and extensions that help manage Apps Script work.

Source: Google Apps Script Development – Best Practices – Andrew Roberts

Snippet, Sheets

iterate ~80x faster through spreadsheet using map function in apps script

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use array map method instead of “for” loops to iterate faster through 2-dimensional spreadsheet data.

Sourabh Choraria shares his experience of using Array.map to find values in a Google Sheet and the performance benefit of using this approach.

Source: iterate ~80x faster through spreadsheet using map function in apps script

Snippet, Solutions, Docs, Drive, Gmail, Sheets

Bulk save emails from Gmail

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Screenshot of setup sheet for tool.

Screenshot of setup sheet for tool.

This tool is designed to bulk save emails (and associated attachments) from a specified Gmail label into a Google Drive folder, with relevant threads combined into a single PDF document.

Source: The Gift of Script: Bulk save emails from Gmail – overview

Snippet, Sheets

Log actions performed by a user running a Google Apps Script

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Screenshot of spreadsheet with logs from script

Example log output from script to spreadsheet

A standalone function that you could include in your scripting projects to help determine which user ran a script and what actions it has performed. It is designed to output the information into a Google sheet – Date/Time, User, Action.

Source: The Gift of Script: Log actions performed by a user running a script

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Convert Doc to PDF and move into a new folder with Google Apps Script

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Create a PDF version of a Google Doc, move it into a new folder, remove its parents so it only exists in the new folder (typically also exists in My Drive) and then trash the Doc.

Source: The Gift of Script: Convert Doc to PDF and move into a new folder

Snippet, Sheets

Check if a date is more than a month ago

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Recently during a consultation I was asked if it would be possible to check if the date submitted on a Google form was over a month ago, to which I responded “sure …”.

Admittedly this was a lot more difficulty than I thought it would (and should) be – I was bamboozled by online forums and posts suggesting to convert dates into numbers and perform other incoherent functions to achieve this. Eventually however I came across the single JavaScript function that I would need to achieve this feat …… ‘getMonth’.

Source: The Gift of Script: Check if a date is more than a month ago

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