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This is a sample script for inserting the paragraphs with the checkboxes in Google Documents using Google Apps Script.

In the current stage, Google Documents can create paragraphs with checkboxes as the paragraph bullet. But, unfortunately, this cannot be created by the Google Document service (DocumentApp). Fortunately, it seems that this got to be able to be achieved by Google Docs API. In this post, I would like to introduce a sample script for this.

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This is a simple workaround for starting an animation GIF on Google Slide by clicking.

When an animation GIF is inserted into a slide of Google Slides, the animation is automatically started. By this, the timing for starting cannot be controlled by the user side. In this post, I would like to introduce a workaround for resolving this issue. Preparation The sample flow is as follows.

Overview

This is a Google Apps Script library for easily managing the template of Google Documents and Google Slides using Google Spreadsheet as a database using Google Apps Script.

Description

You might have situations where are required to create multiple Google Documents and Google Slides from the templates using Google Spreadsheet as a database with Google Apps Script. When the simple texts are replaced with the placeholders on the templates, this can be achieved by a simple script. However, there is the case that the images are required to be inserted into the templates. In this case, the script is complicated. The method for replacing the placeholders with the images is different between Google Documents and Google Slides. And, when I see questions on Stackoverflow, a lot of questions related to the template process using Google Documents and Google Slides can be seen. Furthermore, I personally have a lot of questions related to this from other users. From this situation, I thought that when managing the template process can be simply run, it will be useful for a lot of users. So, I created this library.

My report has been published at Champion Innovators Content Library and Google Cloud Medium publication.

• Easily Implementing HTML Form with Google Spreadsheet as Database using Google Apps Script

If these reports will be useful, I’m glad.

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Abstract

Recently, I felt a change like never before in the questions on Stackoverflow. In order to confirm this, in this report, the trend of “google-apps-script” tag on Stackoverflow in the first half (January 1st to June 1st) of 2023 has been investigated. From this report, in 2023 when the affection of COVID-19 has been reduced socially, the appreciable trend was confirmed to the questions including a tag of “google-apps-script”. It is guessed that the origin of this appreciable trend is due to AI chatbots. The appearance of AI chatbots might give us a phase of major change to the method for understanding the statistical data obtained from online sites.

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Abstract

This report introduces the method for easily implementing HTML forms with a Google Spreadsheet as a database using Google Apps Script. There are 2 patterns for the HTML form using Google Apps Script. One is that an HTML form is put into the same Google Apps Script project. Another is that an HTML form is put to a different server from a Google Apps Script project. In this report, the methods for easily implementing both patterns are introduced using the sample scripts.

HtmlFormApp was updated to v1.0.1.

• v1.0.1 (May 29, 2023)

  1. When multiple files are uploaded, each URL was set as the hyperlink.

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

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Abstract

In this report, the detailed specification of PropertiesService has been investigated. It is considered that knowing this specification will be useful for developing applications with Google Apps Script. As a result, it was found that the maximum key and value sizes are 524,287 bytes with a 1-byte key and 8,066 bytes, respectively. And also, it was found that the maximum size of PropertiesService is required to be considered with both the key and value sizes.

My report has been published at Champion Innovators Content Library and Google Cloud Medium publication.

• Exporting Binary Data with Batch Requests using Google Apps Script

If these reports will be useful, I’m glad.

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This is a sample script for converting Google Spreadsheet to an HTML table using Google Apps Script.

There is the case that it is required to convert a sheet in a Google Spreadsheet to an HTML table. For example, there might be a situation that a sheet in a Google Spreadsheet is sent as an email including an HTML table. And, there might be a situation in which a sheet in a Google Spreadsheet is published to an HTML page including the converted HTML table. I have published the method for achieving this before. Ref But, in that case, the column width, the row height, merged cells, and the images in the cells couldn’t be used. When those are included in the script, the script becomes complicated. So, I couldn’t include it. But, recently, I have come up with a simple method for achieving this. In this post. I would like to introduce a sample script for converting a sheet in a Google Spreadsheet to HTML.