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Gemini LLM, now a Vertex AI/Studio API, unlocks easy document summarization and image analysis via Google Apps Script. This report details an example script for automatically creating the description of the files on Google Drive and highlights seamless integration options with API keys.

Introduction

Recently, the LLM model Gemini has been released and is now available as an API on Vertex AI and Google AI Studio. Ref and Ref This report presents a simple Google Apps Script example for automatically creating descriptions of files on Google Drive using the Gemini Pro API. It is considered that when the description of files on Google Drive can be easily created, it will help users manage a lot of files.

Recently, when Drive API is enabled at Advanced Google services with the script editor, Drive API v3 is automatically used. In the official document, Drive API v3 has already been used. Ref In the current stage, the users can select V3 and V2.

When Drive API v3 is used with Advanced Google services, the following advantages can be considered.

1. Drive API v3 can be used with only the scopes for Drive API without adding a scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/script.external_request.
2. The files and folders can be searched by the search query of createdTime. Ref

References:

• You can see the official document of “Drive API v2 & v3 comparison reference”.

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Google Documents can be managed by the Document service of Google Apps Script. Ref One day, you might have a situation in which you are required to manage the footnotes on Google Documents using Google Apps Script. There are several official documents related to the footnotes for Google Apps Script. Ref and Ref However, unfortunately, I’m worried that it might be difficult a little to understand the management of the footnotes from these documents. Actually, I saw some questions related to the footnotes on Google Documents at Stackoverflow. In this report, I would like to introduce a method for managing the footnotes on Google Documents using Google Apps Script.

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One day, you might have a situation where you are required to manage rich texts in Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. In this report, I would like to introduce the basic technique for managing rich texts with Google Apps Script.

Introduction

At Google Spreadsheet, rich texts can be used as a cell value. The rich texts can be also managed by Google Apps Script. Ref When I saw the official document related to the rich texts with Google Apps Script, I’m worried that it might be difficult a little for users to manage the rich texts using Google Apps Script.

PDFApp was updated to v1.0.3.

• v1.0.3 (November 26, 2023)

  1. From this discussion, I changed the logic of the method mergePDFs. The method for using mergePDFs and the output are not changed. With this modification, the large PDF data can be merged.

You can see the detail information here https://github.com/tanaikech/PDFApp

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One day, you might have a situation where you are required to make users edit the protected cells using Google Apps Script. This report introduces a workaround for achieving this situation. The key factors for achieving this are as follows. 1. Run the script as the owner of Spreadsheet even when the script is run by a user. 2. In order to run the script as the owner, the installable triggers and the Web Apps are used.

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At Google Spreadsheet, custom functions created by Google Apps Script can be used. Ref When the custom function is used, the users can create a function for expanding the built-in functions for Spreadsheet. One day, you might have a situation for executing the custom function using an array. For example, under the situation that your custom function uses a single value instead of an array as the argument, when you want to use an array for each argument of the custom function, it is required to modify the original script of the custom function or the function calling the custom function. In this report, I would like to introduce a technique of array processing for the custom functions on Google Spreadsheets.

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At Google Spreadsheet, the cells can be merged as one cell. But, when the Spreadsheet including the merged cells is used with Google Apps Script, the script becomes a bit complicated. Also, I sometimes find some questions like this situation on Stackoverflow. In this report, I would like to introduce a technique for easily using the Spreadsheet including the merged cells with Google Apps Script.

Principle

Before it introduces the sample scripts, I would like to introduce the principle for using the Spreadsheet for the merged cells. You can understand the principle of this method from the following sample input and output images.

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One day, you might have a situation where you are required to make the shared users upload a file and text using a dialog or sidebar on Google Spreadsheet to your Google Drive and Spreadsheet without authorization by the users. This report introduces a solution for achieving this situation.

Introduction

Google Spreadsheet can run Javascript on a dialog and a sidebar. Ref These can be used as a strong tool for working on Spreadsheet. There might be a situation where you want to make the shared users input a value and upload a file without authorization of the scopes. In this report, I would like to introduce 2 patterns to achieve this goal.

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One day, you might have a situation where you are required to update a sheet using Google Apps Script when the cell values retrieved by IMPORTRANGE are changed. This report introduces a workaround for achieving this situation.

Introduction

Google Apps Script can be executed by several triggers. Ref When a cell in a Google Spreadsheet is manually edited, a function of Google Apps Script can be executed by detecting this edit. In most cases, the OnEdit trigger trigger of the simple trigger or the installable trigger is used. When the OnEdit trigger is used, a function can be executed by manually editing a cell. When the function is executed, the function can be run by giving the event object including the information about the edited cell.