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Solutions, Gmail, Sheets, V8

A bulk email/mail merge with Gmail and Google Sheets solution evolution using V8 – MASHe

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Last year I had a ‘mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets’ contribution accepted on the G Suite Developers Solution Gallery. Just over 6 months on there has been lots of useful feedback and requests for solutions to some of the limitations of the original published script. In the meantime Google has also made the new V8 runtime for Google Apps Script generally available. Given this it seemed appropriate to revisit the original solution updating it for V8 as well as covering the most commonly asked for changes. In this post I’ll highlight some of the coding changes as well as some easy modifications.

This post picks up some common requests I get for features like advanced send parameters (cc, bcc, sender name/from, replyTo), sending emails with emoji/unicode and scheduling/triggering bulk emails. Some other areas covered in this post might be of general interest to Apps Script developers interested in using formatted Google Sheets cell values for currencies, dates and more as well as detecting/ignoring filtered hidden rows.

Source: A bulk email/mail merge with Gmail and Google Sheets solution evolution using V8 – MASHe

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Using Google Apps Script to capture who sends email from your delegated gmail account

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Solutions, Gmail, Sheets

How to Generate a Report of Bounced Email Addresses in Gmail with Google Apps Script – Digital Inspiration

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The bounced email report for Gmail lists all the email address that bounced. It also provides the response provided by the recipient’s server for rejecting your email.

Nice script example shared by Amit Agarwal for getting a bounced email report from your Gmail account.

Source: How to Generate a Report of Bounced Email Addresses in Gmail – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, Docs, Drive, Forms, Gmail, Sheets, V8

G Suite Solutions —  Apps Script Powered Workflow Automation

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Laura Taylor recently spoke at SheetsCon on the topic of Automation with Apps Script. During the presentation, she walked through a simple approval workflow for a hypothetical small business to demonstrate the power of Apps Script to automate workflow inside G Suite. She also showcased modern ECMAScript features supported by the new Apps Script V8 Javascript runtime.

The article is an overview of the workflow covered in the author’s presentation along with install instructions for trying it out in your G Suite domain.

Source: G Suite Solutions —  Apps Script Powered Workflow Automation

Solutions, Forms, Gmail, Sheets

Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

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Gathering inputs from multiple sources and then taking action on each becomes taxing when the task needs to be realized with frequency and with multiple stakeholders. An example is quarterly or annual budget approvals for a finance team.

In this article the author will share how to use an Apps Script in a Google Sheet to automatically create a budget submission form that you can share with end users, and when their responses arrive in the sheet, you can collaborate with other reviewers to send emails in bulk depending on whether you are approving, rejecting, or asking for more information about their request. The emails use a Google doc as a template that pulls information from the sheet such as a user’s name, the budget values they entered, or special comments.

Source: Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

Snippet, Gmail, Sheets

Email scheduler for Gmail – overview

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Email scheduler spreadsheet columns

Over the next few blog posts I look to explore my development of an email scheduler for Gmail that is designed to let you schedule when you want an email composed in your drafts to be sent (by specifying the date/time).

This was written prior to Google introducing an email scheduler themselves.

Source: The Gift of Script: Email scheduler for Gmail – overview

Solutions, Gmail, Sheets

Gmail Mail Merge For A Specific Label With Apps Script – Ben Collins

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Every Monday I send out a Google Sheets tip email and occasionally I’ll include a formula challenge…. It would have been too time consuming to reply to all 150 responses manually from my inbox. Since 95% of all my replies would be the same … it was a perfect case for automation.

Ben Collins expertly shares how he automates part of his Gmail inbox to review emails in Google Sheets and prepare draft replies to be sent as responses. As always Ben provides details of each step and the code.

PS Don’t miss Ben’s free Automation With Apps Script course  – enrolment closes 31 January 2020.

Source: Gmail Mail Merge For A Specific Label With Apps Script – Ben Collins

Official News, Solutions, Gmail, Sheets

Create a mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets | Sheets to Apps

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Whether you are in sales, marketing, education, project management, data analysis, etc., it’s common for people to want to send emails to multiple recipients with information that is customized to each. In this episode, learn about Martin Hawksey’s mail merge solution, which helps anyone send emails with customized content from a Google spreadsheet, and Gmail.

See the YouTube description for all the links you need.

Solutions, Gmail

Manage Gmail with Google Apps Script

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Ever had a messy inbox full of mails? Does it bother you to skip the inbox? Luckily, Google has provided many services that we can harness its utilities to organize the mail using personal preferences or workflow.

You will able to make an auto email archiver/remover after following the steps. This will be done by using Google Apps Script and setting the schedule trigger. The code is pretty simple and straightforward since Google has already provided us with ready-to-use objects for managing Gmail.

Source: Manage Gmail with Google 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