Build your own Mail Service for Apps Script with Glitch & Gmail SMTP relay

Since this year (2019) Google will have more strict policy regarding the Gmail scope. If in the past for sending notifications we were used to request the Send Email scope to user, now it is less comprehensible and on Google side you will have to provided lot of more details and your application can be rejected. So it become time for thinking to send email as the application and not as the user. Say Hello to RelayApp service

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2018 – yet another year in and out of Google Apps Script | Desktop Liberation

What’s been happening in Apps Script … The modernization of the Sheets API and the Calendar API, the release of the Slides API and most recently the Docs API have all opened up many new capabilities for Apps Script regular and advanced services. The Docs API does not yet have an advanced service so you need to go to the API directly, but as with Sheets and Slides, over time you’ll probably see one arriving along with some of the more advanced features being integrated into the regular Apps Script service. Let’s look at a few of the new goodies (and not-so goodies).

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Google Drive as cache – Desktop Liberation

If you are after performance and self cleansing then the CacheService is the best solution for caching, and if you are after permanence and small amounts of data, the properties service is a good solution. You can also get round many of the limitations of each service using my properties and cache plugins, covered in Squeezing more into (and getting more out of) Cache services

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Google Apps Script Patterns: Creating conversational interfaces with Dialogflow – MASHe

In a recent episode of Totally Unscripted I demonstrated how you can use the Dialogflow service as a way to allow you to add conversational interfaces to your Google Apps Script projects. In this post I share some boilerplate and instructions for implementing Dialogflow into G Suite editor add-on projects

Source: Google Apps Script Patterns: Creating conversational interfaces with Dialogflow – MASHe

What’s behind the numbers in the G Suite Marketplace?

Awesome Table has recently joined the very exclusive club of apps that have reached the 10M user milestone on the G Suite Marketplace, like Lucidchart. Perfect time to give a bit more visibility on this number of users and follow-up on my article Add-ons and the Google Apps Marketplace from 2016.

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