Google Add-on to bulk rename Google Drive files quickly and easily in a given folder. You define exactly what you want to search for in the file name and the text to replace it with. Includes instructions and demo video.
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
You can improve the performance of Google Sheets and speed up calculations.
Via Sourabh Choraria (@schoraria911) we picked up this tweet from
Michael Avrukin who is working on the Google Sheets help center documentation:
Hi there dedicated #sheets users, we are starting to work on our help center content – here is our first article in the new format. I’ll appreciate thoughts / feedback anyone has. #googlesheetshttps://t.co/1wJ5abJZiI@benlcollins
The page includes a number of useful tips to speed up Google Sheet calculations and whilst not specifically Google Apps Script related provides useful information on some things you can look out for when your Google Sheet starts getting slow.
This article explains how the filtering criteria of Google Sheets slicers can be reset using a few lines of Apps Script code. Two different approaches are shown. The first one uses the Spreadsheet Service, while the second one draws upon the Google Sheets API using the Advanced Sheets Service. Additionally, some shortcomings and peculiarities of both methods are highlighted.
Kudos to Pablo Felip for taking the time to explore and write-up this post about Google Sheets ‘slicers’. It contains some very useful tips and advice about interacting with them using Google Apps Script.
This is a Google Apps Script library for parsing the form object from HTML form and appending the submitted values to the Spreadsheet.
A common Google Apps Script use case is taking data from a webform and adding it to a Google Sheet. This can sometimes be quite painful has you have to handle the various input types and also write the data to the correct columns. The HtmlFormApp library makes this very straight forward and to illustrate once the library is added to your Apps Script project you can start appending data in a couple of lines of code:
// These are all options.
const obj = {
formData: formData,
spreadsheetId: "###",
sheetName: "###",
sheetId: "###",
folderId: "###",
headerConversion: {"header value of Spreadsheet": "name of HTML input tag",,,},
ignoreHeader: true,
choiceFormat: true,
delimiterOfMultipleAnswers: "\n",
valueAsRaw: true
};
const res = HtmlFormApp.appendFormData(obj);
console.log(res)
Click through to the source link for more details 👇
How to use Google Sheets to generate Stripe payment links and request payments in any currency from your customers anywhere in the world!
Amit Agarwal continues an excellent series of payment themed posts with this latest contribution on integrating the new Stripe Payment Links API with Google Sheets. As noted by Amit this can be combined to make quick payment workflows. Click through for more details and the source code.
here’s how you can generate a cryptographically random code verifier, hash it using sha256 & derive it’s base64 encoded challenge in google apps script.
Continuing the crypto theme Sourabh Choraria has been geeking out with Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) OAuth 2.0 authentication flows which be used in the new Twitter API when making requests on behalf of users.
If you are unfamiliar with PKCE, you can find out more in Okta’s description on how to use PKCE to Make Your Apps More Secure. You can follow Sourabh Choraria post to find out more about the Apps Script implementations of this and the good news for Twitter/Apps Script users is the sample is now committed to the Google Workspace OAuth2 Apps Script library samples as Twitter.gs
2021 was also a year for Platform milestones, Google Workspace grew to more than 3 billion users globally, we reached more than 5,300 public apps in the Google Workspace Marketplace, and we crossed over 4.8 billion apps installed (up from 1 billion in 2020)! We were also busy bringing Platform innovations and improving our developer experience to help building for Google Workspace easier and faster. Here’s a look at some of the key enhancements the Google Workspace Platform brought to the developer community.
There were a number of announcements for Google Workspace developers in 2021 and in this post Charles Maxson provides a summary of the key points.
Senbei is a traditional Japanese cracker made of rice. It is a very tasty cracker that goes well with Japanese tea, but there are also huge Senbeis as big as your face. What do you do when you eat such a big cracker? Usually, you would crush them into small pieces before eating them. The same can be said for processing huge data with Google Apps Script.
This is a sample script for importing a CSV data by keeping the number formats of cells on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.
When a CSV data is manually put using the default UI using the browser, it seems that the number formats of all cells cannot be kept. In order to import the CSV data to the cells with keeping the number formats, it is required to use a script as a workaround. In this workaround, Google Apps Script is used.
When the following sample script of Google Apps Script is run, a dialog is opened. And, when the CSV file is selected from your local PC on the dialog, the CSV file is loaded, and then, the CSV data is put to the active cell with keeping the number formats of cells.
The quoted post description explains everything you need about this solution and worth clicking through to see how the code works.
Automatically move a row of data from one Google Sheet tab to another when a tickbox is selected.
Archive a row of data by ticking a box
The following Google Apps Script is designed to move a row of data from one Google Sheet tab to another when a tickbox has been selected in a given column. The tool was developed to help colleagues with automatically archiving data that had been actioned.
The tool uses an ‘onEdit(e) simple trigger’ to constantly monitor the Google Sheet for any changes in values. Is it specifically targeted at a tickbox-column only so that it does not archive rows of data on every edit of the Google Sheet.
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
