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G Suite Solutions —  Apps Script Powered Workflow Automation

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Laura Taylor recently spoke at SheetsCon on the topic of Automation with Apps Script. During the presentation, she walked through a simple approval workflow for a hypothetical small business to demonstrate the power of Apps Script to automate workflow inside G Suite. She also showcased modern ECMAScript features supported by the new Apps Script V8 Javascript runtime.

The article is an overview of the workflow covered in the author’s presentation along with install instructions for trying it out in your G Suite domain.

Source: G Suite Solutions —  Apps Script Powered Workflow Automation

Solutions, Chat

Building your first Hangouts Chat Bot in Apps Script

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The task of building a Google Hangouts chatbot can often seem daunting due to the diverse technology options and approaches. What is often not always known is how relatively easy it is to build chatbots by simply using Google Apps Script.

Here’s a step by step guide on how to build your first Google Hangouts chatbot using Apps Script.

Source: Building your first Hangouts Chat Bot in Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets

API Calls to ServiceNow from Google Apps Script with OAuth

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Have you ever thought that it might be useful to connect a Google Apps Script to your ServiceNow instance? Perhaps you’d like a new way to quickly download a list of configuration items from your change management database to a sheet, or you’d like to upload a selected range of cells from a sheet as new records in SNOW, one record per row?

This guide is focused more on the coding than how to configure your identity provider and ServiceNow.

Source: API Calls to ServiceNow from Google Apps Script with OAuth

Solutions, Sheets

Trigger daily scripts to take snapshots and draw charts with Google Spreadsheets

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Based on an earlier article on how to live track our investment portfolio performance with Google Spreadsheets, it’s now time to automatically take snapshots in order to be able to visualize the evolution of it.

A short script that takes the current value of your portfolio and copies it into a new row while adding a timestamp – thus allowing the chart to visualize the data on a per-day basis.

Source: Trigger daily scripts to take snapshots and draw charts with Google Spreadsheets

Solutions, Forms, Gmail, Sheets

Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

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Gathering inputs from multiple sources and then taking action on each becomes taxing when the task needs to be realized with frequency and with multiple stakeholders. An example is quarterly or annual budget approvals for a finance team.

In this article the author will share how to use an Apps Script in a Google Sheet to automatically create a budget submission form that you can share with end users, and when their responses arrive in the sheet, you can collaborate with other reviewers to send emails in bulk depending on whether you are approving, rejecting, or asking for more information about their request. The emails use a Google doc as a template that pulls information from the sheet such as a user’s name, the budget values they entered, or special comments.

Source: Workflow to collect and approve budgets using Apps Script in Google Sheets

Solutions, Sheets

Faster budgeting with a Google Apps Script custom function

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Companies, organizations, households, students, etc all benefit from budget planning in order to optimize savings, because you forecast your total expenses, and then closely monitor the true cost in order to course correct and you reach a savings goal.

In this article the author walks us through how to create our own custom function so we can prepare our annual household budget by entering our expenses in one row and marking their frequency in another (ex: annual, monthly, weekly, daily, or only one time). When we have rows and rows of expenses with different time periods, creating our own formula with a Google Apps Script helps us save a lot of time.

Source: Faster budgeting with a Google Apps Script custom function

Solutions, Sheets

Cleanup exported data automatically with Apps Script and advanced formulas in Google Sheets

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You may be exporting data from an accounting tool into an .XLS format (Excel spreadsheet) every month, and then manually searching, cleaning, and replacing values. More specifically you probably spend a lot of time finding and replacing duplicates, and performing advanced operations such as a VLOOKUP or a QUERY function in order to pull data from other sheets or digging through records that use unfriendly date timestamps.

In this article TechandEco walks us through how to automate this monthly task by using a Google macro and a custom menu, and invite you to try it out yourself. In the future, you can convert your Excel into a Google Sheet by dragging it or uploading it into a folder in your Google Drive>then second click the file to view its options > open as > Google Sheet.

Source: Cleanup exported data automatically with Apps Script and advanced formulas in Google Sheets

Solutions, Calendar, Forms

Manage event registration with Apps Script, Google Calendar and Google Forms

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Manage training or event registration with Apps Script, Google Forms and Google Calendar.

Using Google Calendar to setup a meeting is really easy and works like a charm for business or personal needs. But sometimes you want to manage event registration for an event, a training and in this case you need to share a form and register the participant after the submission. Hopefully Google Apps Script is at the rescue.

Source: Manage event registration with Apps Script, Google Calendar and Google Forms

Solutions, Groups, Sheets

Automate Adding Members to Google Group from Google Sheets — Google Apps Script

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I added a script to Google Sheets that auto added new email addresses to the Google Group every time the sheet was edited.

The author was using Google Group to provide access to their dashboard in Google Data Studio. The members kept adding and the process became tedious. They were already keeping/adding all emails in a Google Sheet for some mapping. So this is what they did.

Source: Automate Adding Members to Google Group from Google Sheets — Google Apps Script

Solutions, Sheets

Parsing JSON in Google Sheets with Zendesk and Google Script

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For the most part, using ImportJSON works well—it’s a low effort way of pulling data from any API’s GET endpoint and storing that data in a sheet for further parsing and filtering. But, there was a flaw: Zendesk’s API calls are paginated and limited to 100 results per page. That meant that we needed to add a new ImportJSON() formula every 100 rows to get all of our data.

This follow-up guide goes the extra step—not to feed a big JSON file into ImportJSON, but to write a script that does everything, including pagination. And, as an added bonus, is easier on your API rate limit.

Source: Parsing JSON in Google Sheets with Zendesk and Google Script