Workaround: Automatically Installing OnEdit Trigger to Copied Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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This is a workaround for automatically installing the OnEdit trigger to the copied Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

The sample situation for this workaround is as follows.

  • You have a Google Spreadsheet.
  • Your Spreadsheet is shared with a user as the writer.
  • Your Spreadsheet has a button for executing a script for copying the active Spreadsheet.
  • Your Spreadsheet has a function installedOnEdit for executing by the installable OnEdit trigger.
  • You want to make the user copy the active Spreadsheet by clicking the button, and also, you want to automatically install the OnEdit trigger to installedOnEdit for the copied Spreadsheet, simultaneously.

This method is from “Using OnEdit Trigger to Google Spreadsheet by Hiding Google Apps Script from Other Users (Author: me)” and “Using OnEdit trigger on Google Spreadsheet Created by Service Account (Author: me)”.

Enriched Management of Rich Text on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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Enriched Management of Rich Text on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

In the current stage, Google Spreadsheet can use rich texts in cells. The rich texts can be also managed by Google Apps Script. But, I thought that creating a script for editing the existing rich text in the cell might be a bit complicated. Because, for example, in the current stage, when the text of the rich text of a cell is changed using a script, all text styles are cleared. In order to add and delete a text for the rich text in a cell, it is required to create a script while the current text style is kept. This is actually complicated. In this post, I would like to introduce the enriched management of rich text on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. In order to enrich the management of Rich Text using Google Apps Script, I created a library RichTextAssistant.

GAS Library - RichTextAssistant

GAS Library - RichTextAssistant

Overview

This is a GAS library for supporting editing RichText in Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

Description

There is RichTextApp in my published libraries. RichTextApp can be used mainly for converting RichText to Google Documents and vice versa. This library RichTextAssistant will support editing the rich text in Google Spreadsheets using Google Apps Script. Google Spreadsheet can use rich text as the cell value using Google Apps Script. But, I thought that when I created a script for editing the existing rich text in the cell, it might be a bit complicated. Because, for example, in the current stage, when the text of rich text of a cell is changed using a script, all text styles are cleared. In order to add and delete a text for the rich text in a cell, it is required to create a script while the current text style is kept. This is actually complicated. From this situation, when a script for supporting editing the rich text in a cell is published, it will be useful for a lot of users. So, I created it and published it as “RichTextAssistant” of a Google Apps Script library.

Benchmark: Process Costs for Searching Value using Object with Google Apps Script

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When a value is searched from the 1-dimensional array and a 2-dimensional array, after V8 runtime could be used, I use JSON object, Set object, and Map Object. But, I had never measured the process cost of this situation. In this post, I would like to introduce the process cost for searching a value using a JSON object, Set object, and Map object converted from the 1-dimensional array and 2-dimensional array.

Importing Microsoft Excel to Google Spreadsheet using Custom Function with Google Apps Script

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Importing Microsoft Excel to Google Spreadsheet using Custom Function with Google Apps Script

This is a sample script for importing Microsoft Excel (XLSX) data to Google Spreadsheet using a custom function with Google Apps Script.

Usage

1. Install SheetJS library.

Please copy the script of the SheetJS library from https://cdn.sheetjs.com/xlsx-latest/package/dist/xlsx.full.min.js, and paste the script to the script editor of Google Spreadsheet, and save the script.

In this case, I would like to recommend the following flow.

Directly Retrieving Values from XLSX data using SheetJS with Google Apps Script

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Updated on July 8, 2023

In the current stage, unfortunately, the built-in methods of Google Apps Script cannot directly retrieve the values from the XLSX data. From this situation, I have created DocsServiceApp. When this Google Apps Script library is used, the values are directly retrieved from XLSX data by parsing XML data of XLSX data.

Here, as another approach, I would like to introduce a sample script for directly retrieving the values from XLSX data using SheetJS with Google Apps Script. In the current stage, Google Apps Script can run with V8 runtime. By this, it seems that SheetJS can be used.