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Solutions, Drive, Sheets, V8, Intermediate

How to Automatically Add Teachable Students to Google Drive Files and Folders when they Enroll in your Course – Yagisanatode

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Learn how to instantly share newly enrolled teachable students to Google Drive files and folders with Google Sheets and Apps Script.

Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald provides a very thorough walk-through of how he has connected a webhook from a third party service to Google Sheets to share specific Google Drive folders and files with named users. This post is well worth a visit as it contains a number of tips and tricks like using Google Forms to follow-up with user email addresses that are not associated with a Google account.

Source: How to Automatically Share Teachable Students to Google Drive Files and Folders when they Enroll in your Course – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Docs, V8

Append List Items, Paragraphs and table cell items with a date-time stamp in Google Docs using Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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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.

Source: Append List Items, Paragraphs and table cell items with a date-time stamp in Google Docs using Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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

Solutions, Admin SDK, V8, Intermediate

List All Users in an Organisation’s Google Workspace Account with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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Note! This tutorial is for Google Workspace for organisations and not the free consumer account, unfortunately. While the Google Apps Script docs provide a great example of how to get a list of users in a Domain on a Google Workspace account, it is not in the scope of the documentation to go into the weeds and explain all the ways we can search for all users.

In this tutorial, we will cover how to access your Google Workspace organisation’s user data, what data you can retrieve and how it looks, who can retrieve it and a couple of ways to display what you need.

Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald gives another thorough post for Google Apps Script users. Whilst targeted at Google Workspace users this tutorial has some great explanations of common Apps Script patterns, such as pagination and query parameters, that are useful to know when interacting with other Google APIs.

Source: List All Users in an Organisation’s Google Workspace Account with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Drive, V8, Intermediate

Get a list of Google Shared Drives by ID and Name in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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If your organisation is using Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise, or one of the other supported plans, you are likely taking advantage of the power of Google’s Shared Drives.

If you have decided to create a Google Apps Script project that needs to get a list of your Shared Drive (or a user’s shared drives in the case of a WebApp), then you might be scratching your head right now wondering how to get this list using the built-in DriveApp class.

Whelp, unfortunately, at the time of writing this article the DriveApp class does not have this functionality. However, it is pretty easy to access in a single line of code using an Advance API.

Source: Get a list of Google Shared Drives by ID and Name in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Add-on, Solutions, Drive, V8, Intermediate

Creates a Google Workspace Add-on file picker card with CardService that opens a Google Picker in an overlay window – Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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So you have this awesome idea for a Google Workspace Add-on (GWAO), but you need to be able to select Google Drive files and folders as a part of your process. … Ideally, you would want a built-in File Picker class that would select the files and folders from the directories you need. Whelp… unfortunately, we don’t have that right now for Google Apps Script’s Card Service.

One approach might be to build out a file picker card selecting each parent’s files and folders and navigate through it like, say, a linked list. … Instead, I decided to incorporate Googles File Picker API as a popup window from the sidebar, because, it’s kinda what it is designed for.

The Google Apps Script GDEs are publishing some very thorough tutorials just now. The latest comes from Scott Donald who has published a tutorial exploring how the Google Drive Picker can be used with Workspace Add-ons that use the Card Service. The post is particularly good at highlighting the steps required as a Google Cloud Console project.

Source: Creates a Google Workspace Add-on file picker card with CardService that opens a Google Picker in an overlay window – Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Docs, V8, Beginner

How to find and replace text in a Google Doc with a link or a list of links with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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Learn how to find and replace text with a link in Google Docs with Google Apps Script Document App with 3 different scenarios.

So you are a citizen Google Apps Script developer and you’ve decided to make yourself a mail-merge-type project where you want to create new documents from a template. … Now you want to take it to the next level and replace the text with a hyperlink containing the text and the URL. You might be scratching your head wondering where the replaceTextWithLink() method is or why you can’t simply chain the setLinkUrl() method without making a hyperlink out of the entire body of the document.

Another one of Scott Donald’s very thorough tutorials, this one exploring link creation in Google Docs.

Source: How to find and replace text in a Google Doc with a link or a list of links with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Forms, Gmail, V8, Beginner

How to Create a Custom Email Auto-responder for a Google Forms Submission with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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A few days before publishing this post, I put a call out for some Beta testers to get free access to my new course Google Sheet: Learn the Essentials through 3 Detailed Projects.

I needed a way to provide coupon codes for free access to the course in exchange for some feedback and much-needed tutorials.

To do this, I created a Google Form.  This contained some details and expectations, and then some details about the submitter and a consent checkbox at the end. If the submitter consented and hit submit I wanted them to get an email back with the coupon code.

In this tutorial, we will go through how to create a custom auto email response containing:

  • The submitter’s name in the greeting.
  • Your email message.
  • Your primary signature block from your Gmail account.

Source: How to Create a Custom Email Auto-responder for a Google Forms Submission with Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, V8, Intermediate

How to programmatically schedule weekly time triggers between two dates in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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A tool to schedule weekly time triggers between two dates in Google Apps Script. Grab the code and ready the quick-use guide or stick around for a deep dive.

Nice solution from Scott Donald to setup timed triggers for a fixed period so you don’t have to worry about manually adding/removing.

Source: How to programmatically schedule weekly time triggers between two dates in Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Gotchas, Solutions, Beginner

Help! My time triggers are not in sync! : How to update your Google Apps Script project time zone. – Yagisanatode

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If you have made it to this post you are probably a little frustrates about why your Google Apps Script time triggers are not running on or around the times that you have designated … To cut to the chase, the likely cause of clock triggers not running in the time range that you have selected is that the time zone in your Google Apps Script project is out.

Scott ‘Yagi’ Donald provides some very useful tips on how you can check and adjust your Apps Script project’s timezone.

Source: Help! My time triggers are not in sync! : How to update your Google Apps Script project time zone. – Yagisanatode