Make Google Sheets as your database for your web app or add-on developed in Apps Script without sharing the file. … In order to keep our database secret to end users we will use a Service Account (SA) … This Service Account is not a real account, no Gmail or Drive attached but a service account can access a spreadsheet. We will use this property to manage our data.
As the post author Stéphane Giron indicates before using Google Sheets as a database you need to fully scope out if it’s the right solution for you. For ‘small’ data you can often get away with using Sheets and in this post from Stéphane you can learn how to do it in a way where you can have access control by setting up and using a Service Account.
Apps script code to manage CSV files input and output for hash code 2022 of Google.
This post from Stéphane Giron provides some very useful Google Apps Script snippets for working with .CSV data files. Included in the post are ways to:
Retrieve CSV files with Apps Script and read data;
Treating CSV files; and
Create output CSV files
As a bonus the post shows you how you can create a backup text file of your apps script file.
Manage password encryption in Firebase Cloud Functions for Apps Script using bcrypt with an example of front-end integration.
Useful post from Stéphane Giron with an overview of how Firebase Cloud Functions can be used in combination with Google Apps Script to provide add-on functionality.
In this new era post Covid, to come back to work we have to maintain a certain quota of people at the office. At Devoteam G Cloud we had this needs and to be able to manage people at office we build a web app with Apps Script to manage team and people presence on site.
A great example from Stéphane Giron using Google Apps Script to rapidly develop and deploy an office management solution. The post highlights the utility of PropertiesService to store data in the web app. This solution falls into the category of minimum viable product, but given the nature of Apps Script could be a great project to build on with integration with other Google services.
Manage Google Groups membership expiration with Google Apps Script and Cloud Identity API
As noted by Stéphane Giron Google Group member expiration is not available on all types of Google Workspace accounts, but this post is a useful reminder of what is now possible when it is. The most includes a full explanation and code to get started.
Use the new Google Cloud Identity API to manage your Google Groups on your G Suite domain. Find in this article some REST and Apps Script code to query the Cloud Identity API.
Stéphane Giron summaries some helpful Google Apps Script code for interacting with the Google Cloud Identity API via REST. In this post you’ll find functions for listing both Google Groups in your domain and the members of each of those groups.
It is really amazing how it is simple to make this script and have an app that run on each change perform in your Google Calendar.
A quick post to deal with a script that run when a new event or an event is updated in my Google Calendar. Hopefully in Apps Script we have an EventUpdated trigger.
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.
This article will highlight how you have to be careful about settings when you make some content available publicly, like Groups or Drive file.
The original article describe how an external person of the domain can subscribe to your Slack company channel by using a Google Groups that is publicly accessible. Stéphane Giron’s article helps answer the question – how to prevent and how to identify if some groups are concerned.
Work with partitioned table and upload a csv file in BigQuery with Apps Script.
BigQuery is the famous Google database to store huge amount of data and query them fastly. For a recent a project I had to use it for storing some logs so here the code used with Google Apps Script to create the table and load a csv file from Google Drive.
