GAS Library - HtmlFormApp

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GAS Library - HtmlFormApp

This is a Google Apps Script library for parsing the form object from HTML form and appending the submitted values to the Spreadsheet.

Description

There is Google Form in the Google service. Google Form can parse the submitted data and put it in the Spreadsheet. But when we want to use the custom form, it is required to use the HTML form on Web Apps, dialog, and sidebar. In this case, it is required to prepare Javascript and Google Apps Script for parsing the form object from the HTML form and appending the parsed values to Spreadsheet. Recently, a bug of the built-in parser from the Javascript side to the Google Apps Script side for parsing the form object from the HTML form had been removed. Ref But, in the current stage, this bug is removed for only Web Apps. Unfortunately, for the dialog and sidebar, this bug has never been removed. And also, unfortunately, the built-in parser from the Javascript side to the Google Apps Script side cannot be used for the multiple files of the input tag. And, this cannot be used except for google.script.run. For example, when the HTML form including the files is submitted using “action” of the form tag, the file content is not included. And then, when the form object is retrieved, it is required to parse the object and put it in the Spreadsheet. From these situations, I thought that when this process can be run using the libraries, that might be useful for users. So I created this.

On January 19, 2022, 2 Classes of 'CellImageBuilder' and 'CellImage' have been added to Spreadsheet Service

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

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.

Workaround for Inserting Non-public image of Google Drive using IMAGE Function in a Cell on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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Workaround for Inserting Non-public image of Google Drive using IMAGE Function in a Cell on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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.

Update: Javascript library - HtmlFormObjectParserForGoogleAppsScript_js

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

Importing CSV Data by Keeping Number Formats of Cells on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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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.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2022

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Published: January 7, 2022

Kanshi Tanaike

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.

Detecting Operations to Google Spreadsheet by Owner, Specific Users, and Anonymous Users using Google Apps Script

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Detecting Operations to Google Spreadsheet by Owner, Specific Users, and Anonymous Users using Google Apps Script

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.

Simple Method for using ggsrun

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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.

Inverting Selected Objects on Google Slides using Google Apps Script

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Inverting Selected Objects on Google Slides using Google Apps Script

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.