When the users try to write to Spreadsheet using a form, the developers have to consider to the concurrent submission from the form. For example, when the multiple users submit the data with the form simultaneously, all data are possibly not to be saved to the Spreadsheet. So it is considered that it is important to know the information about the concurrent writing to Google Spreadsheet using a form. In this report, such situation was investigated.
A very useful analysis to see how many form submissions can be handled in Google Sheets at the same time. The experiment looks at both submissions using Google Forms and as a Web App.
This is a sample script for creating the colorful buttons on Google Spreadsheet on Google Apps Script.
There are some interesting features in this script example, combining the use of Google Slides to create buttons and then assigning a script function to the result using the .assignScript() method.
In this post, I would like to introduce the xpath tester using Web Apps created by Google Apps Script.
This is an interesting little Apps Script solution from Kanshi Tanaike which uses the existing Google Sheets =IMPORTXML() in a Google Apps Script Web App to test an XPath. As there is a delay in loading some Google Sheets function results this post includes a nice little coding pattern using a do...while loop to wait for results to render.
This is a sample script for plotting the points on an image using Google Apps Script. Unfortunately, in the current stage, there are no methods for directly editing the image and putting the texts and some shapes in the methods for Google Apps Script. So in this case, it is required to use the workaround.
Clever workaround that uses Google Slides as a canvas for adding text to images.
This is a sample script for setting alternate background colors for rows in Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.
It has already been known when the conditional formatting rule and custom function are used, this can be simply achieved. In this report, I would like to introduce the method for using Google Apps Script.
Year vs. number of Questioners and Answerers. These all questions include the tag of “google-apps-script” in the tags
Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2021
Kanshi Tanaike returns with an updated look at trends in the [google-apps-script] tag on Stackoverflow. A highlight from the report is the continued growth in new questioners, indicating that the Google Apps Script community is continuing to grow.
Here, I would like to report the process costs for searching values in Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script (GAS). When the values are searched in Google Spreadsheet, the following 3 patterns can be considered. Ref
Retrieve all values using getValues, and the values are searched from the retrieved array.
Use TextFinder.
Use Query language.
TextFinder is a relatively new addition to Google Apps Script with was released on April 5, 2019. TextFinder is part of the Spreadsheet Service and provides methods for finding or replacing text within a range, sheet or spreadsheet. There have been some reports on Stack Overflow that the TextFinder methods can be relatively slow to execute compared to using native JavaScript techniques. This post by Tanaike explores the process time of TextFinder against other techniques. Click through to the source for the results and code for running the experiment.
This is a sample script for converting a range in Google Spreadsheet as an image data using Google Apps Script. Unfortunately, there are no methods for directly converting the range in Google Spreadsheet as an image data in the built-in functions. So in this case, as a workaround, Charts Service is used.
