… how to send Charts in Email using Google Apps Script. Sending charts on Email can be used to send the attendance charts of the students, sales chart for the week, share price charts, etc.
Always nice to see others in the Apps Script community use the work of others for inspiration and reshare the results. In this post latest post from Aryan Irani you can learn how to send charts from Google Sheets. This post covers a basic technique that you can easily expand on (if you are having issues with the charts rendered in your emails using this solution check out my referenced post for an alternative method).
Your documents and files in Google Drive can be modified by anyone who has edit access to the file. You can always remove external collaborators from your documents to prevent them from editing your files but how do you prevent yourself (the owner) from accidentally editing your own files in Google Drive? Google Drive doesn’t have a simple button (yet) for locking files so here’s a little Google Script that can help you make any file in your Google Drive read-only.
Nice post from Amit Agarwal showing how the new Google Drive Locking API can be used with Google Apps Script. The post contains all the code and instructions you need to get started.
Turn your spreadsheet into a database with examples for querying, inserting, updating, and deleting via API. In this guide. I’ll also explore the limitations of Google Sheets, including scalability, and where it makes sense to start looking at more complex alternatives.
Whilst not directly Google Apps Script related this post from Jacob Lee (Co-founder Autocode) provides lots of useful advice and tips on using Google Sheets as a database. The post also does an excellent job of highlighting the hard limits as well as usability issues before you hit those limits.
Imagine if you have a set of data, say, Cat, Dog, Goat and you want to create a new column where each item is repeated 3 times. Essentially what we are doing here is spreading out our original … There is no real easy approach to do these things with the standard Google Sheets Formulas (Known as Functions in Google Sheets). Fortunately, we can create custom functions with Google Apps Script to do the job.
In this post, I will go over the 3 custom functions that I created to solve these three problems. I’ll then provide a quick-use guide if you just want to dive in and get started using them. Finally, I go over some of the interesting parts of the Google Apps Script code for those of you who wish to learn more about creating your own custom functions.
Rather than manually update my team hourly, I used a slack bot that grabs the AQI from the air now API every hour. So I thought I’d share how I did it, and maybe if you use G Suite and Slack in your workplace you could set one up too.
Nice post describing how you can use Google Apps Script to develop a Slack bot that is setup to post messages to a Slack channel at regular intervals. Click through to the source to find out more.
Automate the generation of further Apps Script code typically used when capturing Google Form submission data. I tend to find there are 2 lines of code per Form question that I have to write which when scaled up to 60+ questions is a lot of time and chance for human error.
Pivot tables are a quick and powerful way to analyse data. Using Google Apps Script, there is an ability to build and modify pivot tables in Google Sheets. In this post I’ll share some tips and tricks for interacting with pivot tables in Google Sheets.
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 Google Apps Script library for supporting Document service, Docs API, Spreadsheet service, Sheets API, Slides service and Slides API. The aim of this library is to compensate the processes that they services cannot achieve.
The purpose of this contribution from Tanaike is to extend Google Apps Script to interact with certain types of Google Drive files using methods not included in the existing core or advanced services. Features worth noting are:
Google Docs:
Retrieve table width and column width from the table. The tables inserted with the default width are included.
Google Sheets:
Retrieve all images in Google Spreadsheet as an object including the cell range and image blob.
Retrieve all comments in Google Spreadsheet as an object including the cell range and comments.
Insert images in cells of Google Spreadsheet using the image blob.
Create new Google Spreadsheet by setting the custom header and footer.
Microsoft Word:
Retrieve table width and column width.
Microsoft Excel:
Retrieve all values and formulas of the cells.
Retrieve all sheet names.
Retrieve all images as an object including the cell range and image blob.
Retrieve all comments as an object including the cell range and comments.
For more details about this library visit the source on Github
