Learn how to append a date-time stamp to list items, paragraphs and more in Google Docs with Google Apps Script
A very slick example from Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald which shows a very simple method for appending text at the current cursor position and all achieved in just over 50 lines of code, with comments. Head over to the source for the full code and explanation.
Mergo is a mail merge add-on for Gmail. With the new gallery, users can easily create, share & reuse templates.
Instead of starting your email from scratch, you can open the gallery and select a template: it will appear as a draft in Gmail.
We recently had Romain Vialard join us on Totally Unscripted to talk about some of his add-ons. This post is another example of Romain’s continual exploration of Apps Script, this time looking the new Grid view for the CardService. You an find out more in the source link.
This is a sample script for sending Outlook emails using Microsoft account with Google Apps Script. Before you use this script, please install OnedriveApp which is Google Apps Script library. And, please authorize your Microsoft account for using Microsoft Graph API.
The author of this contribution, Kanshi Tanaike, always comes up with interesting Google Apps Script solutions. This particular example uses a OnedriveApp library which makes it easy to interact with other part of the Microsoft Graph API expanding the possibilities.
This is a sample script for sending multiple emails using the batch request with Gmail API using Google Apps Script. When multiple emails are sent using “GmailApp.sendEmail” and “MailApp.sendEmail”, a loop is used. But in this case, the process cost becomes high. In this post, I would like to introduce the sample script for reducing the process cost under this situation. Gmail API can be requested with the batch request. The batch request can be processed with the asynchronous process. By this, I thought that the process cost for sending multiple emails. So, this sample script sends multiple emails using the batch request with Gmail API.
I imagine many in the Apps Script developer community have a script or two that sends email. This post highlights a solution using the Gmail API to send emails in a batch, keeping in mind the limitations highlighted in the post.
I wanted a quick and easy way for my kids to track the books they read, as well as a way for my wife to catalog all the books in the house. I know there are other services out there like Goodreads that can store your book list…but I just wanted to house the data myself, and not have to create accounts for my young kids.
Nice little project that glues together Google Forms and Sheets and the Google Book API with a little but of Google Apps Script. Follow the link for more information and the source code.
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.
This is a sample script for executing a function with the minutes timer in the specific times using Google Apps Script. For example, when this sample script is used, the following situation can be achieved: Execute a function every 10 minutes only in 09:00 – 12:00 and 15:00 – 18:00 for the weekday.
A clever bit of coding from Kanshi Tanaike for running a Google Apps Script on a defined schedule. The part I found particularly interesting was the solution for programmatically setting triggers in the V8 runtime:
This sample script used Web Apps. Because when v8 runtime is used, when the trigger is set from the function executing by a trigger, the trigger is disabled. This is the recognized bug. But unfortunately, this has still not been resolved. (September 21, 2021) But, when the trigger is installed by Web Apps, no issue occurs. So, please deploy Web Apps.
For the sample code and explanation visit the source link.
I recently came across GAS — Google App Script and immediately the first hurdle I had to overcome to was make my NPM packages available on there. I had to hop through a couple loops to make this happen. I wanted to call out the steps in this blog so it’ll hopefully help someone out there as well.
In Pulse we’ve previously highlighted a couple of approaches for using NPM libraries in Google Apps Script. The linked source post come from, recent guest on Totally Unscripted, Nima Poulad, Senior Software Engineer at DocuSign. Nima highlights a quick and dirty approach of using eval() on hosted NPM libraries, but goes on to show how Browseify can be used to convert NPM libraries, highlighting some considerations for this approach.
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.
How to use JavaScript memoization to optimize and improve the performance of your Google Apps Script code. … Memoization is a simple optimization technique that can be used to improve the performance of your Google Apps Script code. The basic idea is that you cache the results of an expensive function call using closures. If the function is called again with the same arguments, the cached result is returned instead of calling and executing the function all over again.
Great tip from Amit Agarwal for improving the performance of data heavy functions. Follow the link to the source post to find out more and a code sample to get started that finds a particular value in a CSV file.
