Imagine you’re managing a Google Group, where important attachments are regularly sent. Manually saving these attachments to your Google Drive can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Is there a way to automate this process and ensure that you don’t miss any crucial documents?
It’s quite easy to tie yourself in knots when it comes to scheduling tasks in Google Apps Script to handle data created since the last run. This Medium post from Pablo Pallocchi shows a nice way your can structure Gmail searches using the after: operator combined with a ‘last execution date’ stored in Apps Script Properties Service. The result is a nice solution design to backup attachments sent to a Google Group to Google Drive. There’s lots of scope for extending and/or modifying this solution. All the details are in the source post.
Learn how to check indirect membership of users or groups in the context of the Google Groups Service using Apps Script.
This is a great post if you want to learn about how to programmatically navigate the hierarchy of Google Groups, which may also come in handy when you are processing other tree like structures often found in JSON. All the code needed to run this is provided and clearly explained.
Extract a list of members of a Google Group (email address and role) into a Google Sheet. You simply enter the email address of the Google Group that you belong to and then run the Function.
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
Manage Google Groups membership expiration with Google Apps Script and Cloud Identity API
As noted by Stéphane Giron Google Group member expiration is not available on all types of Google Workspace accounts, but this post is a useful reminder of what is now possible when it is. The most includes a full explanation and code to get started.
Use the new Google Cloud Identity API to manage your Google Groups on your G Suite domain. Find in this article some REST and Apps Script code to query the Cloud Identity API.
Stéphane Giron summaries some helpful Google Apps Script code for interacting with the Google Cloud Identity API via REST. In this post you’ll find functions for listing both Google Groups in your domain and the members of each of those groups.
Need to share a variety of documents with vendors? Don’t want to share access one by one? In this episode of Sheets to Apps, we’ll cover how to use an Apps Script in a Google Sheet to automatically add members to a Google Group, helping you share documents at a large scale that will save you time.
We’ve previously shared the Medium post that provides more details for setting up this solution. If you missed that post or were unclear Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin, better known in the community as AGV, provides a very useful overview.
The code and other resources presented in this episode are available from the video description.
I added a script to Google Sheets that auto added new email addresses to the Google Group every time the sheet was edited.
The author was using Google Group to provide access to their dashboard in Google Data Studio. The members kept adding and the process became tedious. They were already keeping/adding all emails in a Google Sheet for some mapping. So this is what they did.
