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Solutions, Drive, Sheets, V8

Google Apps Script: Extract Specific Data From a PDF and insert it into a Google Sheet – Yagisanatode

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Have you ever asked for a list from a client, another department or agency and instead of saving into a file that might even be considered marginally useful, they give it to you as a pdf. … Continue reading “Google Apps Script: Extract Specific Data From a PDF and insert it into a Google Sheet”

Yagi shares a comprehensive walk-through of how you can sometimes extract data from .PDF documents using Google Apps Script and the advance Drive service. The solution is also able to work on .PDFs created from images using the built-in OCR features of Google Drive and you might want to drop the getTextFromPDF() function shared in the post.

Source: Google Apps Script: Extract Specific Data From a PDF and insert it into a Google Sheet – Yagisanatode

Classroom, Sheets

Google Apps Script: Upload grades into a Google Classroom Coursework Assignment – Yagisanatode

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Google Classroom has become one of the darlings of the teaching world that has come out of this crisis. Its shallow learning curve and attractive UI made it an obvious choice for most educators. Oh, and I am sure the fact that it is free helped too.
One of the limitations is that you cannot simply upload grades from, say Google Sheets or another assessment tool. Well…not directly in the Google Classroom platform, yet.

This tutorial runs through the basics of uploading grades from Google Sheets into Google Classroom using Google Apps Script with the Classroom API.

Source: Google Apps Script: Upload grades into a Google Classroom Coursework Assignment – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Docs

Google Apps Script: Get Google Doc Text Based on Reference Characters – Yagisanatode

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This simple tutorial should get you started with grabbing text from a Google Doc for other uses. You could certainly make a lot of changes to the code to introduce more search rules. Likewise, you could use regular expressions to search for some really cool stuff, but for a simple overview this should get you started.

This post provides a detailed how-to of getting a list of information from the document that you have noticed are between two sets of characters.

Source: Google Apps Script: Get Google Doc Text Based on Reference Characters – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets

Google Sheets: Get the Number of Words or Sentences in a Cell (Paragraph) – Yagisanatode

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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking – phawh! I’d really like to know how many words there are in a paragraph – Or stopped mid-chew on some arbitrary item carelessly left in the paddock by the boss and thought – geez! If there was only a way to count the number of sentences in a paragraph in a cell in Google Sheets!?

In this short tutorial, Yagisanatode will show you how to get the total count of words in a cell and the total count of sentences in a cell in Google Sheets. They even have a how-to on getting the average sentence length in a paragraph.

Source: Google Sheets: Get the Number of Words or Sentences in a Cell (Paragraph) – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets

Google Apps Script: Add and removed Google Sheets columns based on a search array

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Have you ever wanted to delete or add columns in a Google Sheet, based on another set of Sheet data?

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Google Apps Script to update your headers based on another sheets values. These sheets values can come from the current Google Sheet workbook or another one. We will also ensure that the data below the headers is migrated along with the new header location.

Source: Google Apps Script: Add and removed Google Sheets columns based on a search array

Solutions, Sheets

Google Apps Script Course – Intro: 2D Array Data Transformation for Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

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This course requires a rudimentary understanding of very basic Javascript concepts and of what an array is. Nevertheless, if you want to come in blind you should be able to pick things up with a bit of Googling.

One of the major regular tasks that Google Apps Scripts can do for Google Sheets is to automate the transformation of data from one state to another.

Sometimes this task can simply be accomplished by building dynamic templates using the vast functionality of Google Sheets. Other times automation via Google Apps Script is a better tool for the job.

Source: Google Apps Script Course – Intro: 2D Array Data Transformation for Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets

Filling out your column data to match the number of columns in a range – Yagisanatode

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Have you ever experienced the warning about “number of columns in the data does not match the number of columns in the range” when trying to set values or paste a range of values back into your Google Sheet with Google Apps Script?

Check out this post to see how this script can help you fill out your column data to match the number of columns in a range.

Source: Google Apps Script: Filling out your column data to match the number of columns in a range – Yagisanatode

Library

Working with Google Apps Script in Visual Studio Code using clasp – Yagisanatode

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This little tutorial is going to guide us through the steps that will allow us to work, push and pull Google Apps Script code from the online editor to Visual Studio Code.

Related to the clasp CLI from Google, this short guide gets you set up with clasp, installing an auto-completion library, and pushing a project from VS Code to your Apps Script project online.

Source: Working with Google Apps Script in Visual Studio Code using clasp – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Forms, Sheets

Create a seat booking form with Google Forms, Google Sheets and Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

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In this tutorial, Yagisanatode (@LifeOfSpy) is going to build a simple seat booking Google Form that will contain a registeree’s name and the session that they wish to attend. Each time a registeree submits a request to book a seat for a session, that seat is taken from the list displaying only the remaining seats for that session for when the next user submits the form.

Source: Create a seat booking form with Google Forms, Google Sheets and Google Apps Script – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Sheets

Google Apps Script: Create a Select All Checkbox to Tick Checkboxes in Any Desired Range in Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

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Have you ever created a Google Sheet projects where you could really use a select all checkbox (they call them ‘Tick-boxes’ in Google Sheets)? Sure you can copy a range of … Continue reading

Great post not only showing you how to make a ‘select all’ checkbox but you also get an in depth explanation of how this works. Once you fishish this post you might want to read this other Yagisanatode on How to check if there is a Tick Box (Check Box) in a cell or range

Source: Google Apps Script: Create a Select All Checkbox to Tick Checkboxes in Any Desired Range in Google Sheets – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Calendar

Google Apps Script: How force subscribe Google Group Members to a Google Calendar for G Suite – Yagisanatode

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Use Google Apps Script to get all the emails addresses of the members in a G Suite group, compare that against all the current members in the Calendar and add anyone who is missing

Google Apps Script, G Suite Admins, Google Calendar, Calendar API,  AdminDirectory, GroupsApp  Note! This article is for G Suite users and admins. You won’t be able to apply the same code to Consumer accounts.  Google Groups in  G Suite can be a really convenient and clean way to share users to drive folders and file locations, … Continue reading “Google Apps Script: How force subscribe Google Group Members to a Google Calendar for G Suite”

 

Source: Google Apps Script: How force subscribe Google Group Members to a Google Calendar for G Suite – Yagisanatode

Solutions, Docs, Forms, Sheets, Slides

Google Apps Script: Google Standard Color Palette Picker for Sidebar and Dialog Boxes in Google Sheets, Google Docs and Google Slides – Yagisanatode

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I wanted to update one of my free Google Add-on apps that works with colour. What I had is just the standard HTML color input element where the user selects from the palette and that hexadecimal colour code … had always wanted to create a tool for a sidebar or dialogue box that would allow the user to easily access the standard colours or use the custom palette provided by the HTML color input”

Continue reading this post to find out how you can implement your own copy of the colour picker

Source: Google Apps Script: Google Standard Color Palette Picker for Sidebar and Dialog Boxes in Google Sheets, Google Docs and Google Slides – Yagisanatode

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