The problem: hyperlinks in Google Sheets can be in three different formats so if you have a script or add-on that relies on handling links in cells it can cause some headaches.
This article covers a thorough walkthrough of using Advanced Sheets Service to read hyperlinks from cells with different link formats.
For some context for seasoned Google Apps Script developers like me until V8 we’ve been working in a bit of an old school JavaScript bubble. With V8 there is an opportunity to write less verbose and more succinct code. To see some of the differences below I’ve copied the Writing JSON data mapped to row headings example from my original post and updated this with a V8 version and will highlight the changes.
This post covers a range of techniques and includes a typical pattern for writing structured data like JSON responses from third party sources.
Earlier in the year I managed to get a bulk emailing script published in the G Suite Developer Solutions Gallery. In this post I want to show you how you can extend this script so that you can send personalised images using Gmail, Sheets and Slides.
I always enjoy presenting at DevFest as usually it is a reason to explore something new. In the case of DevFest London it was an opportunity to think about how voice interfaces could be used as part of a Google Slide presentation. In this post I’ll share some of the ideas I explored and how they did/didn’t work out.
In practice not all these experiments worked out but hopefully the post contains some useful snippets for navigating Google Slides in the editor, exporting slides as images and extracting text from the speaker notes.
Simplify the process of producing visually rich mail merges using Gmail and combining it with data from Google Sheets. With this solution you can automatically populate an email template created as a Gmail draft with data from Google Sheets. Merged emails are sent from your Gmail account allowing you to respond to recipient replies.
Over the last 10 years of Google Apps Scripts there have been a number of bulk email solutions shared by the community. This post revisits some of these examples and shares one of the latest examples from the GSuite Solutions Gallery
TL;DR A new solution for creating and distribute visually rich bulk emails with Gmail and Google Sheets.
In the previous post in the Google Apps Script Pattern series we looked at selectively updating rows of data in a Google Sheet. For this post we will look at a couple of patterns for inserting multiple rows of data into Google Sheets.
Custom functions have been in Google Apps Script since it’s public launch in 2009. These let you extend Google Sheets function list allowing you to create and share your own spreadsheet formula. This post provides some guidance on writing custom Google Sheet functions that can handle both single and range inputs
