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Solutions, Sheets, V8, Intermediate

How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

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How to use Google Sheets to generate Stripe payment links and request payments in any currency from customers anywhere in the world!

We’ve previously featured Amit Agarwal’s Razorpay and Google Sheets payment solution. This latest example from Amit highlights how to integrate Stripe payments with Google Sheets. The source post contains the code you’ll need, how to setup and also automation options.

Source: How to Request Payments with Stripe Checkout and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, V8, Intermediate

How to Use Service Accounts and OAuth2 in Google Apps Script

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Image: Dmitry Kostyuk

Give your scripts privileges that your users don’t have … In 99% of all cases, authorizations in Google Apps Script are extremely straightforward. When a user executes their script, they run it as themselves with their respective authorization scopes. … However, what if you need to give more rights to your app beyond what your intended users will have? … This is where service accounts come in.

A useful post to find out more about service accounts and how to use them with Google Apps Script. The tutorial put together by Dmitry Kostyuk includes example code for using a service accounts with Firestore, BigQuery and the Admin Directory API.

Source: How to Use Service Accounts and OAuth2 in Google Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets, V8, Beginner

Google Apps Script for Android Translation – Saravana Thiyagaraj

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Normally we get strings.xml files from our translation team, but today was one of those days, where (due to time constraints) we got the source Google Sheet file. We had to generate strings.xml files out of these. This gave me the perfect opportunity to explore Google Apps Script which you could run on your Google Sheet.

This post highlights how Google Apps Script can quickly solve those little problems, in this case how to generate language .xml files used in Android. Follow the link to the source post for an explanation and code.

Source: Google Apps Script for Android Translation

Snippet, V8, Beginner

Google Apps Script Basics – Variables and getting & setting values

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Image: Baz Roberts

In this post, we’re going look at how variables are set up and how they can store various pieces of information. We’re also going to look at reading and writing data from a spreadsheet, which is one of the most common tasks when working with one.

We offer a wide range of community contributions here on AppsScriptPulse. This one might be useful if you are just learning to code and want to understand some of the fundamentals or if you’ve been using Apps Script for a while learn about variable types available in the V8 runtime.

Source: Apps Script Basics – Variables and getting & setting values

Solutions, Sheets, V8, No Code

How to Request Payments with Razorpay and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

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How to use Google Sheets to generate Razorpay payment links and easily accept payments from customers anywhere in the world!

Razorpay is a popular payment gateway in India that allows you to accept online payments from customers anywhere in the world. Your customers can pay with credit cards, debit cards, Google Pay, Walmart’s PhonePe and other UPI apps.

A great solution from Amit Agarwal for creating payment links in Google Sheets for Razorpay. The source post provides more details of how this works and setup required. The post also outlines how you can combine this with a mail merge to sort all your invoicing needs.

Source: How to Request Payments with Razorpay and Google Sheets – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, Looker Studio, V8, Advanced

Using community connectors to go beyond filter by email in Data Studio – pablofelip.online

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This article discusses row-level security in Google Data Studio and shows how community connectors can be used to overcome the limitations of the native feature when accessing data stored in Google Sheets.

I don’t think one of our summaries could ever do justice to this contribution from Pablo Felip. The post has a very thorough summary of row-level security and how Community Connectors coded in Apps Script can be used for additional levels of functionality.

Source: Using community connectors to go beyond filter by email in Data Studio – pablofelip.online

Snippet, V8, Video Tutorial, Beginner, Docs

Google Apps Script Tutorial: Letterhead in Google Docs

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In this Google Apps Script tutorial you will learn how to automatically create a letterhead in Google Docs.

This is a nice short video tutorial from Chanel Greco highlighting how you can manipulate a Google Doc header using Google Apps Script.

Snippet, V8, Beginner, Sheets

Get the redirect location of a URL using Google Apps Script

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Have a list of shortened urls and need their final destination? Use this custom function in google sheets to extract them all at once.

Handy little snippet that can make testing redirects on URLs a lot easier, which can be useful for expanding short links from social media sites like Twitter.

Source: get the redirect location of a url using google apps script

Solutions, Docs, Drive, V8, Beginner

How to Convert HTML to PDF with Google Script – Digital Inspiration

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With Google Apps Script, you can easily convert any HTML content into a PDF file. The converted PDF file can be either saved to a folder in your Google Drive, you can email the file as an attachment or the use the UrlFetchApp service of Apps Script to post the PDF file to an external service like Amazon S3 or Dropbox.

Source: How to Convert HTML to PDF with Google Script – Digital Inspiration

Solutions, Web App, V8, Intermediate

How to Validate Specific Users on a Web App in Google Apps Scripts – Yagisanatode

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Learn how to validate specific users on a Web App, Google Workspace sidebar or dialogue box with Google Apps Scripts. In this tutorial, we will explore how to validate selected users to provide access to your web app. For our example, we validate users based on whether or not they have edit access to a Google Drive file ( a common occurrence). In the discussion, we will also look at alternative ways of validating emails.

Interesting solution for access control to a Apps Script web app by using a Google Doc share permissions as a proxy. The post contains all the code you need and a discussion of other approaches.

Source: How to Validate Specific Users on a Web App in Google Apps Scripts – Yagisanatode