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How to track time with Google Calendar and sync to Google Sheets – Sheets to Apps

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In this episode of Sheets to Apps, we will show you how to track your work time on projects via Google Calendar. More importantly, he’ll be showing you how you can sync Calendar events to Google Sheets, creating a spreadsheet that shows you the total time spent on your projects.

Short video highlighting Jasper Duizendstra’s G Suite Developer Solution Gallery contribution.  See the YouTube description for all the links you need.

Solutions, Forms, Gmail, Sheets

Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

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Gathering inputs from multiple sources and then taking action on each becomes taxing when the task needs to be realized with frequency and with multiple stakeholders. An example is quarterly or annual budget approvals for a finance team.

In this article the author will share how to use an Apps Script in a Google Sheet to automatically create a budget submission form that you can share with end users, and when their responses arrive in the sheet, you can collaborate with other reviewers to send emails in bulk depending on whether you are approving, rejecting, or asking for more information about their request. The emails use a Google doc as a template that pulls information from the sheet such as a user’s name, the budget values they entered, or special comments.

Source: Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

Solutions, Sheets

Faster budgeting with a Google Apps Script custom function

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Companies, organizations, households, students, etc all benefit from budget planning in order to optimize savings, because you forecast your total expenses, and then closely monitor the true cost in order to course correct and you reach a savings goal.

In this article the author walks us through how to create our own custom function so we can prepare our annual household budget by entering our expenses in one row and marking their frequency in another (ex: annual, monthly, weekly, daily, or only one time). When we have rows and rows of expenses with different time periods, creating our own formula with a Google Apps Script helps us save a lot of time.

Source: Faster budgeting with a Google Apps Script custom function

Solutions, Sheets

Cleanup exported data automatically with Apps Script and advanced formulas in Google Sheets

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You may be exporting data from an accounting tool into an .XLS format (Excel spreadsheet) every month, and then manually searching, cleaning, and replacing values. More specifically you probably spend a lot of time finding and replacing duplicates, and performing advanced operations such as a VLOOKUP or a QUERY function in order to pull data from other sheets or digging through records that use unfriendly date timestamps.

In this article TechandEco walks us through how to automate this monthly task by using a Google macro and a custom menu, and invite you to try it out yourself. In the future, you can convert your Excel into a Google Sheet by dragging it or uploading it into a folder in your Google Drive>then second click the file to view its options > open as > Google Sheet.

Source: Cleanup exported data automatically with Apps Script and advanced formulas in Google Sheets

Solutions, Sheets

How to Scrape Reddit with Google Scripts – Digital Inspiration

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Learn how to scrape data from any subreddit on Reddit including comments, votes, submissions and save the data to Google Sheets

Here’s Google script that will help you download all the user posts from any subreddit on Reddit to a Google Sheet. And because it’s using pushshift.io instead of the official Reddit API, the script will no longer be capped to the first 1000 posts. It will download everything that’s ever posted on a subreddit.

Source: How to Scrape Reddit with Google Scripts – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, Groups, Sheets

Automate Adding Members to Google Group from Google Sheets — Google Apps Script

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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.

Source: Automate Adding Members to Google Group from Google Sheets — Google Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets

Keyword Suggestions using the Google Suggest API and Google Apps Script

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For a company looking to improve its online presence, the keywords they rank for online, and their position, are crucial. Knowing which keywords to target can be difficult, especially for a smaller business that may not yet rank for many, or established businesses looking to find additional terms they may be overlooking.

One basic tool to hunt for new keywords to rank for is Google autocomplete – the process of simply beginning to type in the Google search box and letting Google suggests possible search terms based on what you’ve input. These suggested terms are based on what other people are searching for using your input term and therefore may provide useful keyword suggestions. This is an introductory blog post on how to utilise the Google Suggest API for keyword suggestions using google apps scripts to pull the data.

Source: Keyword Suggestions using the Google Suggest API and Google Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets

Parsing JSON in Google Sheets with Zendesk and Google Script

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For the most part, using ImportJSON works well—it’s a low effort way of pulling data from any API’s GET endpoint and storing that data in a sheet for further parsing and filtering. But, there was a flaw: Zendesk’s API calls are paginated and limited to 100 results per page. That meant that we needed to add a new ImportJSON() formula every 100 rows to get all of our data.

This follow-up guide goes the extra step—not to feed a big JSON file into ImportJSON, but to write a script that does everything, including pagination. And, as an added bonus, is easier on your API rate limit.

Source: Parsing JSON in Google Sheets with Zendesk and Google Script

Community News, Sheets

SHEETSCON 2020 – Free Online Conference for Google Sheets Users, 11-12 March, 2020 

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SHEETSCON 2020

Come and celebrate Google Sheets at SheetsCon 2020, the world’s first, dedicated online conference for Google Sheets users.

Listen to world-class experts talk about how they craft solutions using Google Sheets and G Suite.

Over the course of two jam-packed days, you’ll hear everything from deep-dive tutorials on specific topics to cutting-edge solutions across different industries. You’ll have the chance to network with other professionals and meet vendors at the forefront of the Google Sheets movement.

Looks like a great event being hosted by Ben Collins for Google Sheets users. Click through to the SheetsCon 2020 website for the full agenda and free registration

Source: SheetsCon 2020

Snippet, Sheets

Bulk add unique data to an SQL Table in Apps Script

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The following code combines Google Apps Script and SQL to bulk insert a Google Sheet of data into an existing SQL Table, but only after checking the record does not already exist so that it can be safely re-run.

Source: The Gift of Script: Bulk add unique data to an SQL Table in Apps Script