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Email scheduler for Gmail – overview

Email scheduler spreadsheet columns image

Email scheduler spreadsheet columns

Over the next few blog posts I look to explore my development of an email scheduler for Gmail that is designed to let you schedule when you want an email composed in your drafts to be sent (by specifying the date/time).

This was written prior to Google introducing an email scheduler themselves.

Source: The Gift of Script: Email scheduler for Gmail – overview

Gmail Mail Merge For A Specific Label With Apps Script – Ben Collins

Every Monday I send out a Google Sheets tip email and occasionally I’ll include a formula challenge…. It would have been too time consuming to reply to all 150 responses manually from my inbox. Since 95% of all my replies would be the same … it was a perfect case for automation.

Ben Collins expertly shares how he automates part of his Gmail inbox to review emails in Google Sheets and prepare draft replies to be sent as responses. As always Ben provides details of each step and the code.

PS Don’t miss Ben’s free Automation With Apps Script course  – enrolment closes 31 January 2020.

Source: Gmail Mail Merge For A Specific Label With Apps Script – Ben Collins

conversational stats – a way to talk to your data

leverage the power of dialogflow & connect your data sources with simple apps script functions to experience the next-gen approach towards consuming data and shaping insights.

Nice proof of concept from AppsScriptPulse Contributor (and now Editor :)
Sourabh Choraria of the results of a recent hackathon to use Google Sheets as a data source for a Dialogflow agent/bot.

Source: conversational stats – a way to talk to your data

Storing data from the Flutter app → Google Sheets 📊

In this article, we’ll create a sample app which stores Feedback of user from the Flutter app into Google Sheets using Apps Script.

Source: Storing data from the Flutter app → Google Sheets 📊

Loop delete specific rows with counter

Example table with specific rows to delete

Example table with specific rows to delete

Table with row 3 now deleted and data shifted up

Table with row 3 now deleted and data shifted up

The following Google Apps Script has been created to help with a recent difficulty I was having with deleting rows containing a specific value, where the loop was losing the row position due to the spreadsheet data all shifting up a row each time one was deleted. Some searching online suggested looping through a spreadsheet in reverse (from bottom up) to avoid the shift, but that seems more like a workaround than a direct solution …

Source: The Gift of Script: Loop delete specific rows with counter

Data Validation – check for blank cells

The following Google Apps Script code was developed as a tool to check that all the necessary data existed in a spreadsheet before another function was triggered. The reason for this was that if any data was missing it would affect the student Group files I was creating (eg no email address or name) that would eventually prevent further functions from running at a later date.

Source: The Gift of Script: Data Validation – check for blank cells

Create a mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets | Sheets to Apps

Whether you are in sales, marketing, education, project management, data analysis, etc., it’s common for people to want to send emails to multiple recipients with information that is customized to each. In this episode, learn about Martin Hawksey’s mail merge solution, which helps anyone send emails with customized content from a Google spreadsheet, and Gmail.

See the YouTube description for all the links you need.

Get updated with 2019-nCoV (or any) real-time statistics with Google Sheets

What if you want to catch up with the numbers regularly, say, in particular areas? Of course you can keep scrolling your phone for it, but there are chiller ways to do so.

In this 3-part series, Claire Chung explores the spread of pneumonia outbreak and explains how you can import & track data with Google Sheets, organize it & send notifications.

Source: Get updated with 2019-nCoV (or any) real-time statistics with Google Sheets.

Google Apps Script snippet for Google Sheets to view json strings in a modal dialog

View json strings in a modal dialog

View json strings in a modal dialog. Activate the cell that contains a JSON string Click menu item A foldable JSON will be shown in the modal dialog

Handy little Google Apps Script snippet from Riël Notermans (Zzapps) that makes it easier to view any JSON you are storing in a Google Sheets cell.

Source: Zzapps/google_sheets_json_viewer

TSDynamicUrls (#1) — Leverage the URL Power of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings & Forms 💥

In my previous post, I outlined the power of Google document URLs to perform “Simple, Powerful, Work” and promised to share several tools I’ve developed to aid in building them.

Source: TSDynamicUrls (#1) — Leverage the URL Power of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings & Forms 💥