The following Google Apps Script is designed to iterate through Google Docs in a given Google Drive folder and extract the paragraphs of text along with a link to each file into a Google Sheet. A new column will automatically be appended for each paragraph.
This tool was designed with the vision that you may wish to centrally collate some comments/feedback written by others in Docs, into one central location so you do not need to open each file in turn.
Provide a Google Folder ID to extract text from Docs
Bulk create Google Shared drives with permissions all from a Google Sheet.
Bulk create Shared drives from a Google Sheet
Provide the name of the Shared drive on each row in column A.
Provide the email address(es) of the Google Account(s) under the relevant Access level column (Manager, Content Manager, Contributor, Commenter, Viewer). Use a comma and a space to separate multiple email addresses, eg:Â [email protected], [email protected], [email protected].
Ensure you include at least one Manager – the script will check for this – so as to prevent creating a Shared drive that you are then unable to access.
On the ‘Config’ sheet provide the column numbers – leave the default values unless you change the structure of the ‘Data’ sheet and move columns around.
The ‘Log’ sheet should help to troubleshoot any errors you experience, but there will also be a popup message should the script fail at some point.
The following Google Apps Script is designed to get the difference (in minutes) between 2 dates from a Google Sheet. This was part of a tool used to create events from data in a Google Sheet where I needed to get the duration of the meeting for Zoom. The actual date, hour and minute values are separated in columns as it was easier to control user input in that format, so we will need to piece them together.
The following Google Apps Script is designed to bulk set permissions on a Shared drive. It has been created as a standalone Function that requires the ID of the Shared drive and manually entered email addresses for the relevant permissions.
This is how I first worked with it to learn what information was required and how to structure the content, before combining it all into a Google Sheet tool which will be blogged about in the near future.
The following Google Apps Script is designed to get permissions of a given Shared drive. It uses the Shared drive ID to then list a users email address and role they have. This page on Google Drive permissions is useful for what we need to put together to make the call.
This solution cleanse Google Sheet data by searching for specific words and replacing them with an alternative. As part of this the solution highlights cell changes with an alternative colour. This example uses ‘TextFinder’ rather than ‘For Loops’.
Bulk create Google Drive folders with a sub-folder from data given in a Google Sheet. Optional user permissions can be added.
Bulk create Google Drive folders from a Sheet of data
This tool and blog post is largely a continuation of this one for bulk creating Google Drive folders. The main difference being that there is an extra column to provide the name of your sub-folder. Note that the tool will try to create a sub-folder regardless of what is entered – as I was just aiming to create a version for the many requests I got from the previous blog post from people who wanted a sub-folder.
