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On January 19, 2022, 2 classes of CellImageBuilder and CellImage have been added to the Spreadsheet Service.

• CellImageBuilder: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/cell-image-builder
• CellImage: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/cell-image

Unfortunately, in the current stage, it seems that the image manually put to a cell without using the URL cannot still be retrieved.

• When an image is manually put from URL and Google Drive to a cell, this image cannot be retrieved.
• When an image is put using setSourceUrl method with a script, this image and URL cannot be retrieved.

I would like to expect to resolve these in the future update.

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This is a workaround for inserting the non-public image of Google Drive using IMAGE function in a cell on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

When an image on Google Drive is inserted to a cell of Spreadsheet using =IMAGE(URL) function, the image of URL is required to be publicly shared. But, there is the case that the image cannot be publicly shared. This workaround might be able to be used for this situation.

This is a Javascript library for sending the HTML form object to Google Apps Script using google.script.run.

HtmlFormObjectParserForGoogleAppsScript_js was updated to v1.0.1.

• v1.0.1 (January 11, 2022)

  1. A new argument of includeOrder was added as the 4th argument. This library returns the parsed form object as a JSON object. By this, the order of HTML form object is not saved. From this version, this order can be included. This argument includes the order of each input tag in form. The default value is false. When this value is true, a property of orderOfFormObject is included in the returned object. This value is the order of HTML form object. Using this value, you can retrieve the parsed form object in order of HTML form.

You can see the detail of this at https://github.com/tanaikech/HtmlFormObjectParserForGoogleAppsScript_js

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This is a sample script for importing a CSV data by keeping the number formats of cells on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

When a CSV data is manually put using the default UI using the browser, it seems that the number formats of all cells cannot be kept. In order to import the CSV data to the cells with keeping the number formats, it is required to use a script as a workaround. In this workaround, Google Apps Script is used.

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Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answers to the questions every day. There are various tags in Stackoverflow. A lot of discussions are performed at each tag. Their discussions bring important information and are much useful for a lot of people. As one of the tags, there is “google-apps-script”. I sometimes discuss the questions with that tag. When we see the discussions, we can notice that the discussions are changed and progressed by the time, because “Google Apps Script” which is the origin of the tag is updated. This report thinks this change is the trend of the tag of “google-apps-script”. This trend includes the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and tags adding to the tag of “google-apps-script”. The trend of the tag of “google-apps-script” is deeply related to the progression of Google Apps Script and the various applications for Google Apps Script.

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This is a report for detecting the operations to Google Spreadsheet by the owner, the specific users, and the anonymous users using Google Apps Script. When the Spreadsheet is shared with the specific users and/or the anonymous users, when these users can be identified, it will be useful. In this report, I would like to introduce the method for identifying the users who are the owner, the specific users, and the anonymous users.

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This is a simple method for using ggsrun. ggsrun is a CLI tool to execute Google Apps Script (GAS) on a terminal. Also this CLI tool can be used for managing files in Google Drive for OAuth2 and Service Account.

When you use ggsrun, it is required to retrieve the client ID and client secret and/or the service account at Cloud Platform Project. But, there is the case that you want to simply test or you want to just upload and download the files for Google Drive. In this post, I would like to introduce how to simply use ggsrun.

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This is a sample script for inverting the selected objects on Google Slides using Google Apps Script.

I have the case that I want to invert the selected objects on Google Slides. This sample script can be achieved this goal using Google Apps Script.

Sample script

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of Google Slides, and save the script. And, please select the objects on the Slide and run the function main(). By this, the selected objects are inverted.

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This is a sample script for inverting the selected ranges on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

I have the case that I want to invert the selected ranges on Google Spreadsheet. This sample script can be achieved this goal using Google Apps Script.

Sample script

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of Google Spreadsheet, and save the script. And, please select the cells and run the function main(). By this, the selected ranges are inverted.

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This is a sample script for checking whether the cells on Google Spreadsheet have checkboxes using Google Apps Script.

When the checkboxes are used in Google Spreadsheet, there is the case that it is required to know whether the cells have the checkboxes. This sample script can be used for such the situation.

Sample script 1

This sample script can check whether all cells in “A1:B10” have the checkboxes. When all cells in “A1:B10” have the checkboxes, res is true.