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Solutions, Drive, Sheets, Beginner

Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs 2.0

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Bulk convert all the Google Docs within a given folder to PDFs and optionally delete the Docs afterward, version 2.0

The following Google Apps Script tool is designed to bulk convert all Google Docs within a given Google Drive folder into PDFs. You can choose the destination folder for the PDFs to be put into and also whether you want the original Docs to be deleted. This tool does work on Shared drives.

It is an improved version of this Google Doc to PDF tool post.

Improvements / Features

  1. Maximum runtime – in order to prevent the tool from reaching the limits imposed by Google you can adjust the number of minutes the tool can run for. Change this in the ‘GlobalVariables.gs’ file in the Script Editor.
  2. Continue from where it left off – if you have a lot of Google Docs to convert and the above runtime is reached the tool will save its progress and prompt you to run it again, avoiding any file duplication.
  3. HTML popup – as well as the ‘Log’ sheet the tool now displays a direct popup to the user if it encounters a problem.
  4. PDF counter – after successfully running the tool will include the number of PDFs created as part of the success popup to the user.

Source: The Gift of Script: Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs 2.0

Solutions, Classroom, Sheets, V8, Beginner

Create Google Classrooms using Google Apps Script

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Creating a Google Classroom and maintaining it can be a bit hectic for so many students in a school. Say you are the moderator of your school and your task is to create 10 Google Classrooms for different teachers. Manually doing this can be a very hectic process, that’s where Google Apps Script comes in.

Using Google Apps Script, you can automatically create Google Classroom with the data in the Google Sheet, and paste the Class code in the Google Sheet.

Source: Create Google Classrooms using Google Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets, V8, Intermediate

Multiple Sheets Action. Use Macro Recorder đŸ”´

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Image credit: Max Makhrov

The idea: perform the same action on multiple sheets. The idea is not new, my approach was to use macro each time to see the correct code snippet. It was useful and saved me hours on my current project.

A clever solution from Max Makhrov with some boilerplate script that makes it easy to use a recorded macro across multiple sheets. To make this solution even better I’ve suggested an addition which activates the sheet which makes it easier to reference recorded macro functions. To see in action here is a copy of Max’s Google Sheet with updated code.

Source: Multiple Sheets Action. Use Macro Recorder đŸ”´

Solutions, Forms, Sheets, V8, Intermediate

[Testing] Concurrent writing to Google Sheets using Google Form and HTML form

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When the users try to write to Spreadsheet using a form, the developers have to consider to the concurrent submission from the form. For example, when the multiple users submit the data with the form simultaneously, all data are possibly not to be saved to the Spreadsheet. So it is considered that it is important to know the information about the concurrent writing to Google Spreadsheet using a form. In this report, such situation was investigated.

A very useful analysis to see how many form submissions can be handled in Google Sheets at the same time. The experiment looks at both submissions using Google Forms and as a Web App.

Source: Concurrent Writing to Google Spreadsheet using Form

Solutions, Sheets, Beginner

Track Customer Subscriptions with Google Spreadsheet & App Script by sending an Email Automatically

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Do you still spend time every day monitoring your sales report, identifying which customer subscription is going to expire soon, and manually draft an email to send out to your customer? Would it be better if this manual task can be automated every day for you? If that’s the case, this article can be a great help for you!

Following on from some recent Google Sheet payment solutions here’s a tutorial that highlights how you can use Sheets and Apps Script as a payment reminder tool. Combine with Stripe or Razorpay and you have a complete subscription management solution.

Source: Track Customer Subscriptions with Google Spreadsheet & App Script by sending an Email Automatically

Solutions, Sheets, V8, Intermediate

How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

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How to use Google Sheets to generate Stripe payment links and request payments in any currency from customers anywhere in the world!

We’ve previously featured Amit Agarwal’s Razorpay and Google Sheets payment solution. This latest example from Amit highlights how to integrate Stripe payments with Google Sheets. The source post contains the code you’ll need, how to setup and also automation options.

Source: How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, Looker Studio, Sheets

Create personal stock portfolio tracker with Google Sheets and Google Data Studio

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The idea is to take advantage of what Google Sheets and Google Data Studio offer and pull them together to build a personal stock portfolio tracker.

This post provides an insight into how you can maximise the combination of Google Sheets, Data Studio and Apps Script to create powerful dashboards. The source link provides an overview of the solution and if you are interested in finding out more about how this solution works visit LION stock portfolio tracker guide (from there you can make a copy of the demo and see the code).  

Source: Create personal stock portfolio tracker with Google Sheets and Google Data Studio

Solutions, Sheets, Video Tutorial, Beginner

How to Create Automated Snapshots of your Google Sheet using Google Apps Script

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In this video, we’ll show you how to automate snapshots of your Google Sheets and have those logs stored in a separate Google Drive folder so that you can keep your logs nicely organized for future reference. To do this, we’ll be using Google Apps Script to create a script that references the SpreadsheetApp library and the DriveApp library.

There seems to be an increasing number of YouTube channels dedicating content to highlight Google Apps Script solutions. Here’s the latest one we’ve come across from aguycalledjoe at bootstrapping.tools

Solutions, Docs, Drive, Sheets, Beginner

Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs

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Bulk convert all the Google Docs within a given folder to PDFs and optionally delete the Docs afterwards. Specify the destination folder for the PDFs.

Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs using Apps Script

Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs using Apps Script

The following Google Apps Script tool is designed to bulk convert all Google Docs within a given Google Drive folder into PDFs. You can choose the destination folder for the PDFs to be put into and also whether you want the original Docs to be deleted. This tool does work on Shared drives.

Source: The Gift of Script: Bulk convert Google Docs to PDFs

Solutions, Sheets, V8, Beginner

Google Apps Script for Android Translation – Saravana Thiyagaraj

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Normally we get strings.xml files from our translation team, but today was one of those days, where (due to time constraints) we got the source Google Sheet file. We had to generate strings.xml files out of these. This gave me the perfect opportunity to explore Google Apps Script which you could run on your Google Sheet.

This post highlights how Google Apps Script can quickly solve those little problems, in this case how to generate language .xml files used in Android. Follow the link to the source post for an explanation and code.

Source: Google Apps Script for Android Translation