A short promo video from the official G Suite account showing users how to install add-ons in Google Sheets, which developers might find useful to reference or see how to structure their own add-on videos.
… that job taught me two very important lessons: repetitive stuff needs to be automated; the best way to learn to code is with a tangible, objective problem that needs a solution. … It was then I decided to go all-out and make a Twitter Bot. Having no relevant experience or clue of what I was doing, my goal was simple: send a few tweets with relevant quotes, readings, and information for Orthodox Christians
Very detailed post from Peter Berthelsen on his journey from no-code to making a functional Twitter bot and if you keep reading to the end you’ll get a link to Peter’s follow-up post with a template and setup instructions. These posts are great examples of the empowerment Google Apps Script can give to people.
This tool is a URL Shortening service powered by Google Apps Script and hosted using Github Pages.
Lovely little project from Sourabh Choraria which uses some contributions from the Apps Script community. The code for the ‘Take me There’ URL shortener is open source making it easy to deploy your own version. You can read about the development of this project including discovering issues with e.pathInfo in Sourabh’s blog post.
Peter Whitehead is Head of Mathematics in a large Further Education College in London, UK and has started a blog sharing “Google Apps Script code that will make life easier for teachers, educational managers and educational IT support”.
This is a Javascript library to achieve the resumable upload for Google Drive. When a file more than 5 MB is uploaded to Google Drive with Drive API, the resumable upload is required to be used. tanaikech/ResumableUploadForGoogleDrive_js
Kanshi TANAIKE has some amazing GitHub contributions and this is another one. Whilst this is designed as a Javascript library you can use in any project Kanshi provides and an example of how this could be used in a Google Apps Script add-on.
In this episode, we give you some brief examples of what kind of apps you can create with App Maker. Learn how to build dashboards, human resource apps, and so much more!
As one of the only technologists in a family of CPAs I’m always seeking ways to participate in the discussion. So when the topic of using Benford’s Law as a risk assessment tool recently surfaced in conversation I decided to develop a custom macro to automate the analysis inside Google Sheets.
Laura Taylor tackles an interesting topic is this post highlighting how Benford’s Law can be used to detect anomalies in data. Google Apps Script developers might also be interested in the way macros are introduced to the reader.
This tutorial gives us an explanation on how to use RingCentral’s API in Google Apps Script.
Nice little tutorial written by Embbnux Ji that shows how you can use Google Apps Script to connect with RingCentral, an “All-In-One: Voice, Fax, Video and Team Messaging” service. The tutorial includes an example for connecting with the RingCentral SMS API. There are many more APIs provided by RingCentral you could use. As a RingCentral administrator I’ve often considered using the RingCentral Configuration API and our team Google Calendar to setup call redirection…
