Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script

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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

Change Tab Detection on Google Spreadsheet using onSelectionChange Event Trigger with Google Apps Script

Updated Specification of Google Spreadsheet: Multiple Hyperlinks to a Cell

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Recently, it seems that the specification of Google Spreadsheet was updated. Before this, when a cell has only one hyperlink. In this case, the hyperlink was given to a cell using =HYPERLINK("http://www.google.com/", "Google") as following figure.

Updated Specification of Google Spreadsheet: Multiple Hyperlinks to a Cell

But by the recent update, a cell got to be able to have multiple hyperlinks as following figure. In this case, the hyperlinks are set by the RichTextValue object.

Updated: python library - getfilelistpy

python library - getfilelistpy was updated to v1.0.5.

  • v1.0.5 (May 15, 2020)

    1. Shared drive got to be able to be used. The file list can be retrieved from both your Google Drive and the shared drive.

      • For example, when the folder ID in the shared Drive is used id of resource, you can retrieve the file list from the folder in the shared Drive.

You can check getfilelistpy at https://github.com/tanaikech/getfilelistpy.

You can also check getfilelistpy at https://pypi.org/project/getfilelistpy/.

Updated: Go Library - go-getfilelist to v103

go-getfilelist was updated to v1.0.3

  • v1.0.3 (May 14, 2020)

    1. Shared drive got to be able to be used. The file list can be retrieved from both your Google Drive and the shared drive.

      • For example, when the folder ID in the shared Drive is used folderID of Folder(folderID), you can retrieve the file list from the folder in the shared Drive.

You can get this from https://github.com/tanaikech/go-getfilelist

Updated: node module - google-drive-getfilelist

node module - google-drive-getfilelist was updated to v1.0.4

  • v1.0.4 (May 14, 2020)

    1. Shared drive got to be able to be used. The file list can be retrieved from both your Google Drive and the shared drive.

      • For example, when the folder ID in the shared Drive is used id of resource, you can retrieve the file list from the folder in the shared Drive.

You can get this from https://github.com/tanaikech/node-getfilelist

You can also get this from https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-drive-getfilelist

Updated: GAS Library - FilesApp

FilesApp was updated to v1.1.0.

  1. Shared drive got to be able to be used. From the version 1.1.0, the following modification was added.
    1. V8 is used.
    2. As the default setting, the file list is retrieved from both your Google Drive and the shared drive.
      • By this, for example, when the folder ID in the shared Drive is used to ### of const res = FilesApp.createTree("###"), the folder tree of the shared Drive is retrieved, if you have the shared Drive.

And also, FilesApp was updated to v1.1.1.

Hiding and Deleting Rows and Columns on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script

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These are the sample scripts for hiding and deleting rows and columns on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. I sometimes see the questions for hiding and deleting rows and columns on Spreadsheet at Stackoverflow. So here, I would like to introduce the sample scripts for this.

In this case, when the process costs of the scripts created by using Spreadsheet service and Sheets API are compared, the cost of script created by Sheets API is much lower than that of script created by Spreadsheet service. So when the rows and columns of your Spreadsheet is large and you can use Sheets API, I recommend to use Sheets API.

When '//' in template literal is used in a HTML file in script editor, it is used as a comment start

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Overview

When // in template literal is used in a HTML file in script editor, it is used as a comment start.

const sample = `//`;

For example, when above script is used in a HTML file at the script editor, ;" of const sample =`//`; is used as the comment.

Description

I would like to explain about this bug using the following sample flow.

Flow

  1. Create new Spreadsheet and open the script editor. In this explanation, please use the container-bound script.

Workaround for Retrieving Direct Links of All Sheets from URL of 2PACX- of Web Published Google Spreadsheet

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This is a sample script for retrieving the direct links of all sheets from the URL like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml of the web published Google Spreadsheet. This sample script can be used for the following situation.

  1. The Spreadsheet is published to Web and the URL like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml is known
  2. You are not the owner of Google Spreadsheet.
  3. You don’t know the Spreadsheet ID and Sheet IDs.

Under above situation, unfortunately, the direct links of each sheet cannot be directly retrieved. I think that this is the specification of Google side. So in this post, I would like to introduce a workaround for retrieving the direct links of each sheet under above situation.

Google OAuth Verification & Application Privacy Policy

Registered Application Name: Workspace & Gemini AI Orchestration Engine

Application Purpose & Core Functionality:

This web page serves as the official homepage and privacy compliance interface for the application "Workspace & Gemini AI Orchestration Engine". This specialized developer utility is designed to research, benchmark, and optimize advanced integrations between Google Workspace services, the Google Apps Script API, and Gemini AI models (via Google Vertex AI / Gemini API endpoints).

The application facilitates automated multi-agent scaffolding, programmatic script deployment, project resource management, and structural analysis of Google Apps Script projects. It allows developers and autonomous AI agents (operating via Model Context Protocol / MCP) to securely evaluate execution performance, implement high-performance batch requests, and test agent-to-agent (A2A) workflows within a controlled and structured environment.

Google User Data Policy Compliance Statements:

1. Data Access & Specific Usage

Our application explicitly requests access to specific Google user accounts through OAuth scopes required strictly for interacting with the Google Apps Script API and Google Workspace endpoints. This access is utilized solely to execute user-initiated or agent-orchestrated programmatic operations—such as creating, modifying, deploying, or benchmarking script projects and executing automated workflows. No background automated extraction occurs without explicit session initiation.

2. Data Storage & Zero-Retention Policy

Adhering to a strict Zero-Retention Model, this application does not store, log, or persist any personal data, OAuth tokens, script source codes, or Google account configurations on any external server, database, or persistent storage medium. All data processing and API responses are handled entirely in-memory or securely on the client side within the active session context, ensuring complete cryptographic transient isolation.

3. Data Sharing & Third-Party Non-Disclosure

We maintain absolute data privacy. No data accessed via Google OAuth scopes is shared, sold, rented, or transferred to third-party entities, advertising networks, or data brokers. All data transmissions are strictly point-to-point, encrypted in transit using industry-standard protocols, and limited entirely to the direct channel between the execution environment and Google's official API gateways.

For inquiries regarding this developer application, technical benchmarks, or verification compliance, please refer to the official documentation and repositories linked on this homepage (tanaikech.github.io).