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Tuning your Google Apps Script experience (for Google Sheets on steroids)

Are you automating Google Sheets using Google Apps Script? Automation is awesome but doing it with the Google tools can be cumbersome.

Interesting article by José Miguel Gutiérrez that provides some amazing tips on how to improve your coding experience while working with Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script.

Source: Tuning your Google Apps Script experience (for Google Sheets on steroids)

Google Apps Script: Add and removed Google Sheets columns based on a search array

Have you ever wanted to delete or add columns in a Google Sheet, based on another set of Sheet data?

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Google Apps Script to update your headers based on another sheets values. These sheets values can come from the current Google Sheet workbook or another one. We will also ensure that the data below the headers is migrated along with the new header location.

Source: Google Apps Script: Add and removed Google Sheets columns based on a search array

How to automatically pull Facebook Ads data into Spreadsheets

After seeing how to send your Google Ads campaign data to Spreadsheets we will do the same with Facebook Ads. Once again, the idea is to implement a data-driven strategy in campaign performance management. But in my opinion, monthly or even weekly reporting are not enough: it has to be daily. And so that it doesn’t take you 20 minutes a day to export your CSV files and format them, here’s how to automate the boring stuff.

Pretty thrifty approach by Henry-Paté Nicolas on tracking Facebook Ads on Spreadsheets using Google Apps Script.

Source: How to automatically pull Facebook Ads data into Spreadsheets

Replays from SheetsCon 2020 – the world’s first, dedicated online conference for Google Sheets users

SheetsCon 2020 was the world’s first, dedicated online conference for Google Sheets users on 11th – 12th March 2020.

We had 11 world-class experts talk about how they craft solutions using Google Sheets and G Suite.

Over the course of two jam-packed days, we had everything from deep-dive tutorials on specific topics to cutting-edge solutions across different industries. We had 1-on-1 networking opportunities, roundtable discussion rooms with other professionals and an Expo Hall with vendors at the forefront of the Google Sheets movement.

Listen to all the replays and access all the templates when you enroll for free.

Whilst this was Google Sheets focused there are a number of sessions that cover Google Apps Script and G Suite Add-on development. As well as the replays there are a number of linked resources you can also use.

Source: SheetsCon 2020 Replays

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

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

G Suite Solutions —  Apps Script Powered Workflow Automation

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

API Calls to ServiceNow from Google Apps Script with OAuth

Have you ever thought that it might be useful to connect a Google Apps Script to your ServiceNow instance? Perhaps you’d like a new way to quickly download a list of configuration items from your change management database to a sheet, or you’d like to upload a selected range of cells from a sheet as new records in SNOW, one record per row?

This guide is focused more on the coding than how to configure your identity provider and ServiceNow.

Source: API Calls to ServiceNow from Google Apps Script with OAuth

Google Developers Blog: Evolving automations into applications using Apps Script

Two years ago, our team began building custom software to automate the multi-stage and highly manual team staffing process. Building internal software has allowed the same-size Staffing Operations Team (3 members!) to enjoy a 60x reduction in time spent staffing each role.

The Apps Script ecosystem has emerged as the most critical component in our toolkit for building this internal software, due to its versatility and ease of deployment. We want to share how one piece of the staffing process has evolved to become more powerful over time thanks to Apps Script. Ultimately, we hope that sharing this journey enables all types of teams to build their own tools and unlock new possibilities.

Source: Google Developers Blog: Evolving automations into applications using Apps Script

Manage new employee equipment requests within Google Sheets – Sheets to Apps

In today’s episode of Sheets to Apps, @TechandEco will show you how to manage new employee equipment requests with Google Sheets.

See the video description for all the links you need including the reference documentation.

Trigger daily scripts to take snapshots and draw charts with Google Spreadsheets

Based on an earlier article on how to live track our investment portfolio performance with Google Spreadsheets, it’s now time to automatically take snapshots in order to be able to visualize the evolution of it.

A short script that takes the current value of your portfolio and copies it into a new row while adding a timestamp – thus allowing the chart to visualize the data on a per-day basis.

Source: Trigger daily scripts to take snapshots and draw charts with Google Spreadsheets