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Solutions, Docs, Forms, Sheets

Create Google Doc from Form submission

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Screenshot of spreadsheet with data and Doc link

Screenshot of spreadsheet with data and Doc link

Create a Google Doc for each submission of a Google Form and translate some of that Form data into the Doc. It puts a link to the newly created Google Doc back into the spreadsheet alongside the relevant row. The Name field from the Form is used as part of the filename for the created Doc and there is a Log sheet to support any troubleshooting errors.

Source: The Gift of Script: Create Google Doc from Form submission

Solutions, Maps, Sheets

Build Local Links with Google Apps Scripting

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Building up a solid link profile is a cornerstone of local SEO, but it can be a time consuming and tedious process. In this post I’ll show you how to automate this quickly and efficiently with Google Sheets.

This Google Sheets tool uses Apps Scripting to combine the Google Maps and Mozscape APIs into an all-in-one link finder. Type in a search term and a lat/long, and the tool will find the top Google maps results. Once we have those results, we can discover who is linking to them, and produce a “link intersect” report.

Source: Build Local Links with Google Apps Scripting

Solutions, Sheets

Dear Analyst #31: Writing Google Apps Scripts to sync data from Coda to Google Sheets • KeyCuts Blog

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Use cases for Google Apps Script include syncing data from Coda to Google Sheets.

Always nice to see other products promoting integrations to Google with Google Apps Script. In this post/podcast Al Chen links to a detailed tutorial and code for syncing data to and from Google Sheets to Coda. If you aren’t familiar:

Coda brings all of your words and data into one flexible surface. Coda comes with building blocks—like tables and buttons—and time-saving templates, so your doc can grow and evolve with the needs of your team.

Follow the link through to the source for code and more details.

Source: Dear Analyst #31: Writing Google Apps Scripts to sync data from Coda to Google Sheets • KeyCuts Blog

Snippet, Sheets

Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script

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Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script – submit.md

An example script from Kanshi TANAIKE which lets you test the new onSelectionChange(e) simple event trigger in Google Sheets.

The onSelectionChange(e) trigger runs automatically when a user changes the selection in a spreadsheet.

In the example shared this is used to detect the user changing Google Sheet tab.

Source: Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script

Snippet, Solutions, Sheets

Interacting with multiple hyperlinks in Google Sheets cells with Google Apps Script

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Before this, when a cell has only one hyperlink. In this case, the hyperlink was given to a cell using =HYPERLINK(“http://www.google.com/”, “Google”) but by a recent update, a cell got to be able to have multiple hyperlinks … In this report, I would like to introduce the method for setting and retrieving the multiple URLs for a cell.

Hyperlinks in Google Sheets cells is a bit of an obsession of mine and it’s nice to see Kanshi TANAIKE has a similar passion. Google are rolling out multiple hyperlinks in Google Sheet cells and Tanaike has provided details on how the hyperlink values can been get/set with Google Apps Script (the official docs are still catching up with Tanaike’s discovery :)

Source: Updated Specification of Google Spreadsheet: Multiple Hyperlinks to a Cell

Classroom, Sheets

Google Apps Script: Upload grades into a Google Classroom Coursework Assignment – Yagisanatode

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Google Classroom has become one of the darlings of the teaching world that has come out of this crisis. Its shallow learning curve and attractive UI made it an obvious choice for most educators. Oh, and I am sure the fact that it is free helped too.
One of the limitations is that you cannot simply upload grades from, say Google Sheets or another assessment tool. Well…not directly in the Google Classroom platform, yet.

This tutorial runs through the basics of uploading grades from Google Sheets into Google Classroom using Google Apps Script with the Classroom API.

Source: Google Apps Script: Upload grades into a Google Classroom Coursework Assignment – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets

DNSQuery and G Suite domain detection in Google Sheets using the Cloudflare name resolution service

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Dos funciones personalizadas para hojas de cálculo de Google desarrolladas en Apps Script que proporcionan un envoltorio para la función NSLookup, tal y como aparece en la documentación del servicio de resolución de nombres de CloudFlare. Consulta el registro indicado en el o los dominios que se pasan como parámetro utilizando el servicio de resolución de nombres de CloudFlare. Determina si un email o dominio (o lista de emails o dominios) está gestionado por Google o no. – pfelipm/dnsquery

Pablo Felip Monferrer has shared two custom functions for Google Sheets that provide an extension to the NSLookup function originally shared by Cloudflare. The first is a wrapper that makes it easy to list specific DNS record types for a single or list of domains. The second function uses the domains MX record to automatically detect if a domain has G Suite Gmail settings applied.

Source: pfelipm/dnsquery

Solutions, Sheets

Marketing Data Extraction using SOAP API — Apps Script Automation

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Recently I had setup a daily extraction automation from a marketing platform and they had SOAP API. I had worked with xml before, so after some trial and error I was able to fetch marketing data from trafficvance.com platform right inside Google Sheets

Nice post from Urwa Shabir highlighting how to interact with 3rd party APIs using SOAP which relies heavily on XML. The post covers formatting a SOAP request now that SOAPService is deprecated in Apps Script, as well as parsing the XML response.

Source: Marketing Data Extraction using SOAP API — Apps Script Automation

Solutions, Sheets

DNS in Google Sheets – Cloudflare Resolver

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They thought we wouldn’t go there, but they thought wrong. If you want or need to find out some DNS records inside of Google Sheets, create a Google Function

Eric Koleda spotted (see tweet) that Cloudflare has been having some fun with Google Apps Script sharing a custom function that lets you do a DNS lookup for domain names in Google Sheets. Eric notes he can’t imagine when you would need to do this, but I always find it encouraging to see big companies using and promoting Google Apps Script.

Source: DNS in Google Sheets – Cloudflare Resolver

Solutions, Forms, Gmail, Sheets

Hacking it: Generate PDFs from Google Forms

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Some time ago, I had a request from one of my colleagues to help automate a rather repetitive and might I add, highly prone to error, process. One of the clients required her to fill in the same form several times in a day, manually, and then send it back for approval and signing. Of course, I’m simplifying a bit but that was what it was in essence.

In this detailed post, Neha demonstrates how to use Google Forms to generate professional looking PDFs from the data submitted via the form, using Google Sheets and Apps Script.

Source: Hacking it: Generate PDFs from Google Forms