Overview

This is a proposal of the enhanced custom function for Google Spreadsheet using Web Apps as the wrapper.

Demo

Description

When the custom function is used, in the current specification, the most methods except several methods (for example, one of them is UrlFetchApp.) that the authorization is required cannot be used. So for example, when the filenames in the folder are retrieved from the folder name, unfortunately, this cannot be directly achieved. When this is tried, an error like Exception: You do not have permission to call DriveApp.getFoldersByName. Required permissions: (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly || https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive) occurs. From this situation, it is considered that when the authorization has already been done, the method that the authorization is required might be able to be used. In this report. I would like to introduce the method for using such methods by using Web Apps as the wrapper.

Gists

When the method of “Files: list” in Drive API v3, the official document of includeItemsFromAllDrives and supportsAllDrives says as follows.

Deprecated - Whether both My Drive and shared drive items should be included in results. This parameter will only be effective until June 1, 2020. Afterwards shared drive items are included in the results. (Default: false)

Deprecated - Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives. This parameter will only be effective until June 1, 2020. Afterwards all applications are assumed to support shared drives. (Default: false)

Updated: GetFileList for golang, Javascript, Node.js and Python

This is the libraries to retrieve the file list with the folder tree from the specific folder of own Google Drive and shared Drives.

• Golang: https://github.com/tanaikech/go-getfilelist
  • Updated to v1.0.4.
• Javascript: https://github.com/tanaikech/GetFileList_js
  • Updated to v1.0.3.
• Node.js: https://github.com/tanaikech/node-getfilelist
  • Updated to v1.0.5.
• Python: https://github.com/tanaikech/getfilelistpy
  • Updated to v1.0.6.

RunAll was updated to v1.1.2.

• v1.1.2 (May 31, 2020)

  1. When the access token and project ID are not included in the object, getOAuthToken() and getScriptId(). By this, an error is removed.

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

FilesApp was updated to v1.1.2.

• v1.1.2 (May 29, 2020)

  1. A bug that all files were not retrieved from the shared drive was removed.

GitHub of FilesApp

Gists

This is a sample script for creating a shortcut on Google Drive using Google Apps Script.

Sample script

Before you run the script, please enable Drive API at Advanced Google services.

function createShortcut(targetId, name, folderId) {
  const resource = {
    shortcutDetails: { targetId: targetId },
    title: name,
    mimeType: "application/vnd.google-apps.shortcut",
  };
  if (folderId) resource.parents = [{ id: folderId }];
  const shortcut = Drive.Files.insert(resource);
  return shortcut.id;
}

// Please run this function.
function main() {
  const targetId = "###"; // Please set the ID of target file or folder.
  const shortcutName = "###"; // Please set the shortcut name.
  const folderId = "###"; // Please set the folder ID for putting the created shortcut.
  const id = createShortcut(targetId, shortcutName, folderId);
  console.log(id);
}

References

• Advanced Google services

Gists

Abstract

This is a report for detecting quickly checked checkboxes on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. It supposes that when the checkbox is checked, a function of Google Apps Script is run by the event trigger. In this case, when the multiple checkboxes on Google Spreadsheet are checked quickly, the script cannot be run for all checked checkboxes, because of the response speed of the event trigger. It is considered that to understand the response of event trigger is useful for creating the application for Spreadsheet. In this report, the detection of quickly checked checkboxes on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script has been investigated. From this result, it led to understanding the response of event trigger.

Overview

This is Google Apps Script library for copying folder on Google Drive.

Description

I have sometimes the situation that it is required to back up the folder on Google Drive to Google Drive. But unfortunately, the method of makeCopy() of Class File and the method of Files: copy of Drive API cannot be used for directly copying the folder on Google Drive. So I created this as a library. This library can copy the folder on Google Drive. All files in the folder can be copied to Google Drive with keeping the folder structure. When there are the files with newer modified time in the source folder than those in the destination folder, the files in the destination folder are overwritten by the newer files in the source folder. Also, in this library, the folders in the shared Drive and the publicly shared folders can be used as the source and destination folder.

Gists

Abstract

I have already reported about “Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script”. Ref It is considered that when the situation which uses the event trigger of onSelectionChange is thought, the response speed is important. So, here, I investigated the characteristics of response for the event trigger of onSelectionChange.

Demo

Experiment

Sample script

In order to investigate the response speed, I used the following sample script. The work of sample script can be seen at above demonstration movie. In this report, the script is important for discussing the result. So I pot this at this section instead of the appendix.

Gists

onSelectionChange has been released at April 22, 2020. But this couldn’t be used at the released day. But now, I could confirm that this got to be able to be used. So in order to test this event trigger, I prepared a simple sample script. This is a sample script for detecting the change tab on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script.

Demo