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Google Apps Script

In this tutorial, I will show you the differences between getValue and getDisplayValue in Google Apps Script. I used a default project with a default spreadsheet document with my birthday 1976-03-07 into A1 cell and format text as year-month-day. I add Apps Script API to my project. On the spreadsheet,… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – getValue or getDisplayValue – part 032.

The tutorial for today is about toast message into a spreadsheet. Use script editor, run the next code source it with authorization:

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function myFunction() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  ws = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
  ss.toast("This is a toast message!");
}

You will see a message toast in the bottom right area of the spreadsheet with this text: This is a toast message!

Today I will present briefly Class GmailThread. It can be used to retrieve data from incoming electronic mail received by Gmail. Let’s see a simple example. First, open a spreadsheet, and from Tools open the Script editor to run this source code:

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function getGmailData() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var threads = GmailApp.search("is:unread in:inbox", 0, 7);
  for (var t=0; t<threads.length; t++) {
    sheet.appendRow([threads[t], threads[t].getId(), threads[t].getLabels(),threads[t].getFirstMessageSubject()])
  }
}

. Add and run with authorization for Gmail… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – about Class GmailThread – part 030.

This is simple to do. Open a GAS script in google editor. You can use the google drive menu New – Google Apps Script or create a new document and use from menu: Tools – Script editor to open a new google apps script editor. Select Gmail A.P.I. from the… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – delete a email – part 029.

This is an update the last tutorial about Google Apps Script and shows you how to use App First, you need to update your Advanced Google services. Open an empty google document text or spreadsheet and using the main menu to open the Script editor from the menu Tools. You… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – get activities – part 028.

Open a new spreadsheet with a Sheet named Sheet3, then a new script. This will require a new project. Also, you can run it with an old project. Use this function to add a blue color on each empty cell selected by your mouse in the Sheet3. You can see… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – change color – part 027.

This tutorial solves this issue about how to parse a text document open by an Id and put the output into a Spreadsheet. The input text from the text document must have four signed number delimited with a comma like as regular expression variable named r from source code:

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function write() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
  var doc = DocumentApp.openById('123xyzTimp\oOBb|hH...');
  var text = doc.getBody().getText();
  var result = [];
  var r = /[+-]?\d+,[+-]?\d+,[+-]?\d+,[+-]?\d+/g
  while ((res = r.exec(text)) !== null) {
    //result.push([res[0]].toString());
    result.push([res[0]].toString().split(","));
    Logger.log(result);
    }
 
  //ss.getRange(row, column, numRows, numColumns)
  ss.getRange(ss.getLastRow() + 1, 1, result.length, 4).setValues(result);
}

This simple example uses Advanced Google services with Task API version 1. You can enable this API from menu Resources – Advanced Google services into your Google Apps Script project. The script is simple, takes title and id of your tasks, and is put on logs system. You can view… Continue Reading Google Apps Script – get tasks – part 025.