I have absolutely no experience in Apps script.
But despite it, I want to create a function to call a SAP Transaction in google sheets.
I want to mark a cell with a number in it (document number)
And then a picture, which activates a function: opening SAP Business client, chose a transaction and fills in the document number.
I hope, someone can help me.
Thanks
What I made until now, is creating a Picture with calls a function. This works.
And I found the link to the SAP Business client Software.
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I have created a spreadsheet that uses a simple script to make buttons function. The sheet has become very popular and I am getting tons of downloads daily - but some people are afraid to "allow" my script because how awful Google makes it sound (I totally understand it, but it keeps saying it is not approved and could be malicious and so on).
How do I go about getting the script approved? I thought I did the right steps but never heard anything.
My spreadsheet is always evolving and new versions might have changes to the script, so will I have to get new approval every time I update the sheet?
Tl; Dr
Create a Google Cloud Standard Project and take note of the project id
Complete the OAuth Consent Screen. At this end of this, it will be sent to verification
Add the project id to the Google Apps Script project
For the detailed instructions go to the official help articles (listed below)
References
Cloud Platform Projects
Authorization for Google Services
OAuth Client Verification
I created a small app on top of a spreadsheet (with GAS and HTML, CSS) and I deployed it.
Users can access to it without having to enter in the spreadsheet.
It works really well but i'm not able to see even the basic analytics (for eg. the number of viewers)
Thanks
Go to the project overview page. In the Google Apps Script web IDE, on the lefmost sidepanel click on Overview.
Also, if you have starred your project, go to https://script.google.com/home/starred
Rather than "viewers" you will see "users". If you have set your web-app as execute as you by anyone even anonymous, you will see only one user, you, as this page show the users that exectuted the scripts like the doGet function and the server-side functions called through google.script.run.
Note: https://script.google.com keep execution logs for the last 7 days. If you need to keep the logs longer you have to use another place to keep these logs, i.e. Cloud Logging (requires a Google Cloud standard project), Google Sheets spreadsheet.
Resources
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/logging
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We are a small company which just switched from paper to tablets (Surface GO Win10 Home) and we have one particular sheet which is used for every order (about 100 orders per month). This Google Sheet acts as a template for every single order and includes some easy code which is written in a bound Apps Script project, to handle things like switching the status from started to finished, copying some cells etc.
My problem is, when someone of the team wants to use the created "buttons" in the sheet to activate the script, it asks for authorization for the script the change the sheet. If you enable it, everything works fine but then for every new order you have to enable it again, and again, and it gets really annoying for every team member.
I tried somehow to
turn it off in the security options as administrator
tried it in the GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM under API's and services
tried to make the code somehow public in the script editor options
...but nothing seems not to work. I used VBA programs a lot in Excel VBA but it was more a hobby and I'm not a computer scientist, otherwise it would maybe be easier to solve this problem.
Is there an easy way so every one of my team can work with the sheets created out of a template without any request from Google for authorization every time.
Kind regards.
The reason for the popups is that Google Apps Script is not part of Google Sheets itself, it's a separate application that uses OAuth 2.0 to get the permissions to make the requests by calling the APIs. The popup shows the scopes you are authorizing for. This means that you can't disable that.
Note that apps script could do more things that just edit the spreadsheet itself; it could get other files, get your personal information, call external servers, etc. Also, the authentication process will only happen once per file.
I'm new to apps scripting and have created a web app which is container bound to a spreadsheet.
The app provides an html form for patients to record blood pressure readings as they take them during the day. A query string on the web app url identifies the individual patient and puts their readings on a sheet, unique to them, as they submit them. The script is deployed as a web app (Publish -> Deploy as web app) and in my development account it works well.
Now I want to share the script with a few other accounts not in my domain, so that they can use it independently with their own patients, with their own web app url, with readings going onto their own spreadsheet and for me to be able to maintain the code centrally.
Researching this I see official addons are now provided through the Gsuite Marketplace. It appears my choices for 'sharing' are these:
create an officially reviewed addon and put it in the Gsuite marketplace but creating an addon for the world is not what I want to do (atm anyway!)
create a private addon for inside one domain but I want to share it with several domains
there appears to be a system for testing the script as an add-on, without publishing it and for sharing the testing but this is mentioned in the Gsuite addon docs but not mentioned in the Editor addon docs and anyway it's for testing.
share the spreadsheet in my account but then all readings end up on my spreadsheet
share the spreadsheet and code to other accounts so they can make a copy but then I can't maintain the code centrally
Can anyone suggest the best way to share this web app script so other accounts not inside my domain can use it independently but ideally so I can maintain the code centrally? Thank you.
I see two solutions here. One is to add a small amount of "user management" code to your tool. For example, include some query parameters on your base url such as email and authorization key. Set up a user-management spreadsheet with your list of users, mapping their email to a secret randomly generated authorization key, and their data spreadsheet ID.
When the script is accessed with a valid email/authorization_key combination, it then opens the relevant sheet and does its thing.
In this scenario, you would either need to have access to all the relevant spreadsheets (if the code is executing "as you"), or you would need to figure out a standardised file layout or approach that let your script locate the right files on each users drive (if the code is executing "as the user accessing the web app").
Another solution here is to use an Apps Script Library. Using a library would allow you to keep the bulk of the code in the library, while having lightweight "wrapper" code bound to each of the other users spreadsheets. This wrapper code would simply pass doGet/doPost, and any other function requests back to your library.
For example:
function doGet(e){
return YourLibrary.doGet(e);
}
function doPost(e){
return YourLibrary.doPost(e);
}
function aCallback(a,b,c){
return YourLibrary.aCallback(a,b,c);
}
In the library scenario, each sheet and script can be private to the individual users, you would just need to walk them through the initial setup/deployment, and occasionally have them bump the library version and re-publish the web-app in their copies.
Is it possible to get at calendar event attachments within google apps scripts? I realize that this is still a "google labs"-level feature, but getAttachments() would be really handy for some stuff I'm working on. Failing that, does the lab store its attachment data in a clever location (say, a tag containing a URL) that I could get at behind the scenes?
Not possible as far as I know. As you've mentioned, it is a Calendar Labs feature. Many regular features are not available in Apps Script, so it is tough to expect this one. You can try opening a feature request though