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This is a sample script for inserting a text on an image using Google Apps Script.

Demo

In this demonstration, “sample text” is inserted to the image. The image is from https://www.deviantart.com/k3-studio/art/Rainbow-painting-281090729.

Preparation

When you use this script, please install the following 2 Google Apps Script libraries.

1. DocsServiceApp
2. ImgApp

And, please enable Slides API at Advanced Google services.

Flow

The flow of this sample script is as follows.

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This is a sample script for retrieving all values from all sheets from URL of 2PACX- of Web Published Google Spreadsheet using Node.js.

In this post, it supposes that the Google Spreadsheet has already been published for Web. Ref

Before you use this sample script, please install SheetJS js-xlsx.

Flow

The flow of this method is as follows.

1. Retrieve XLSX data from the URL of web published Google Spreadsheet as the buffer data.
   • The URL is like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml.
2. XLSX data is parsed with SheetJS js-xlsx.
3. Retrieve all values from all sheets.

Sample script

Please set spreadsheetUrl.

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This is a sample script for retrieving all values from all sheets from URL of 2PACX- of Web Published Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script and Javascript.

In this post, it supposes that the Google Spreadsheet has already been published for Web. Ref

Flow

The flow of this method is as follows.

1. From the client side, send the URL of web published Google Spreadsheet to the Web Apps created by Google Apps Script.
   • The URL is like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml.
2. Return the byte array of XLSX data from the Web Apps to the client side.
3. At the client side, the XLSX data is parsed with SheetJS js-xlsx.
4. Retrieve all values from all sheets.

Usage

1. Prepare script.

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor and save it.

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This is a sample script for sorting the cells on Google Spreadsheet with the background colors using Google Apps Script.

Unfortunately, in the current stage, it seems that sort(sortSpecObj) of Class Range cannot directly sort by the background colors of cells. But when Sheets API is used, this goal can be achieved. Here, “SortRangeRequest” of the method of “spreadsheets.batchUpdate” in Sheets API is used.

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Introduction

At Stackoverflow, a lot of people post the questions and answer to the questions every day. By this, there are a lot of important information in Stackoverflow. I have already reported “Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow” using the data retrieved from Stackoverflow. Ref. 1 It is found that the important statistical result can be obtained by analyzing the data on Stackoverflow. In this report, I would like to introduce the statistical analysis of duplicated questions for the google-apps-script tag in Stackoverflow. When the duplicated question is analyzed, it is considered that the important issues for users can be known. As the result, it was found that there are the trend that the duplicated questions related to Javascript, Google Spreadsheet , the process cost and the cooperation with HTML and Javascript are posted.

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This is a sample script for setting alternate background colors for rows in Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

It has already been known when the conditional formatting rule and custom function are used, this can be simply achieved. Ref In this report, I would like to introduce the method for using Google Apps Script.

Sample script

In this sample script, the values of column “A” are checked.

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This is a sample Google Apps Script for running the specific function when the specific sheet is edited.

Sample script

Please copy and paste the following script to the container-bound script of Spreadsheet and set sheets object.

// When the cells are edited, this function is run by the fire of event trigger.
function onEdit(e) {
  // Please set the sheet name and function as follows.
  const sheets = {
    Sheet1: functionForSheet1, // Sheet1 is the sheet name. functionForSheet1 is the function name of function which is run when Sheet1 is edited.
    Sheet2: functionForSheet2,
  };

  const sheetName = e.range.getSheet().getSheetName();
  if (sheets[sheetName]) {
    sheets[sheetName](e);
  }
}

// In this sample, when Sheet1 is edited, this function is run.
function functionForSheet1(e) {
  console.log("Sheet1 was edited.");

  // do something
}

// In this sample, when Sheet2 is edited, this function is run.
function functionForSheet2(e) {
  console.log("Sheet2 was edited.");

  // do something
}

• In this sample script, when the cells of “Sheet1” and “Sheet2” are edited, functionForSheet1() and functionForSheet2() are run, respectively. When other sheets are edited, no functions are run.
• In this sample script, onEdit of the simple trigger is used. When the functions you want to run include the methods which are required to authorize, please use the installable trigger.

Note

• This method can be also used for other event triggers like OnChange, OnSelectionChange and so son.

References

• Simple Triggers
• Installable Triggers
• Event Objects

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Introduction

Here, I would like to report the process costs for searching values in Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script (GAS). When the values are searched in Google Spreadsheet, the following 3 patterns can be considered. Ref

1. Retrieve all values using getValues, and the values are searched from the retrieved array.
2. Use TextFinder.
3. Use Query language.

In these cases, it has already been found that the lowest process cost is to use the Query language. And about finding values from an array, I have already been reported as “Benchmark: Search for Array Processing using Google Apps Script”. But I had never summarized the process costs for TextFinder and find values from an array. So in this report, I would like to introduce this. As the result, the importance of TextFinder for retrieving the row numbers and the row values by searching a value could be understand.

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In order to print and export as PDF file, this is a sample script for converting Spreadsheet to Spreadsheet which has the custom header and footer.

In this sample script, DocsServiceApp, which is Google Apps Script library, is used. And, in this case, the Spreadsheet with the custom header and footer is created as new Spreadsheet.

Before you use this script, please install DocsServiceApp and enable Drive API at Advanced Google services.

ImgApp was updated to v1.3.0.

• v1.3.0 (September 24, 2020)
  • Added new method. Added editImage()
  • This method is for editing images. In the current stage, the image can be cropped. And several images can be merged as an image.

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