I create Library in my app script and share it by another spread sheet and work fine.
now I share this spread sheet by another google account but not working in the library section give me error: You do not have access to library *********, used by your script, or it has been deleted.
I try to add the Script ID in another account to find library but give me this error: You do not have access to library *******, used by your script, or it has been deleted.
Any help about that pleas.
You need to share your Library (or your script and sheet if it is a bound script) to your users from script.google.com. This should appear when you click on the menu option (...) beside your deployed library/script.
This should give other accounts permission to access your Library.
Reference:
Libraries
If you want one or more methods of your script to not be visible (nor usable) to your library users, you can end the name of the method with an underscore. For example, myPrivateMethod_().
Resource scoping.
There are two types of resources: Shared and Not-Shared.
Please read this for more details - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/libraries
Related
I have google sheets addon in Google Workspace Marketplace. I want to store the emails of the users installing the addon. I'm thinking of three possible ways.
Write to private spreadsheet under the addon account (different than the user's). Addon is running under user's so the question is, is this even possible - accessing the addon account (specifically writing to a spreadsheet) from within the user google account context?
using PropertiesService - Write the user to script properties using PropertiesService class.
One problem with this one is the limitations as explained in Quotas for Google Services.
for me, at lease for now, this is enough.
However the question is how to access those script properties programmatically.
Of course I can access the data from the script editor, but this is not practical if I want for example to send mail to all the users.
adding code to the addon that will be available only for specific users (admin). In this case since I can read the users from the script properties, and maybe write them to spreadsheet to be used later. This looks ugly, I admit.
I'm not asking for code solutions, but suggestions for the right or best approach.
The easiest solution is to create a database
Create a spreadsheet located on your Drive, shared as "Everyne can edit".
Implement a flow where after Add-n installation data containing the user"s email will be appended to the spreadsheet.
This request will take place on user's beahlf, however given that the spreadsheet is shared publicly, there won't be any access permission issues
Even if the spreadsheet is shred publicly - given that the spreadsheet id is not known by anyone other than the Add-on code, you do not need to worry about undesired access to the database.
I have created a Notification script and would like to use it for multiple spreadsheets (produced by Forms). I would like to have a centralized script and referencing it on my multiple spreadsheets in order to simplify maintenance.
I have tried to use the SpreadsheetApp.openById() like below but looks like this feature has been disabled for security reasons and is not supported anymore.
function append()
{
SpreadsheetApp.openById("1xdePF..........................");
}
Any idea on how to use the same script for multiple spreadsheets?
The documentation specifies that openById opens the spreadsheet with the given ID.
You cannot use this method to open a script.
To open an Apps Script, go to https://script.google.com/home/my and clock on the script of your choice.
For bound scripts, you open the document to which the script is bound and go to Tools->Script Editor
Preface
This answer is supplementary to ziganotschka's, since you indeed cannot access the script bound to a document by opening said document with openById(). The answer, instead, covers other issues you had and suggests additional ways to solve your task.
Problem
When trying to use openById() you receive an error message of the following structure:
Exception: Document [doc id here] is missing (perhaps it was deleted, or maybe you don't have read access?)
You mentioned in comments that the id is 58 chars (I bit it is 57) and obtained from "properties", which explains the error - there is no spreadsheet with such an id, because file id and script id you extracted are not the same thing. If you ever need to extract current id programmatically (here it is assumed to be called from a script bound to spreadsheet, but other services have similar methods), you can call getActiveSpreadsheet() -> getId().
Solutions
You stated that you need a maintenance script, so how about creating a standalone script project that is deployed in a way any document can access:
As a library
Any script that has a saved version can be a library that can be used by other scripts by adding its id to the list accessible from Resources->Libraries menu.
As a Web App
Any script that has a doGet, doPost function (or both) can be deployed as a Web App, essentially exposing it to the net. Since you said that the spreadsheets are "produced" by Forms, and you created a "notification" script, I assume you are interested in a FormSubmit event. When you deploy as a Web App, you get a url (don't forget to choose an appropriate permission).
After that, it is only a matter of making sure that:
each Form has an installable onFormSubmit trigger (you can instlall it via [please see refs for docs] ScriptApp.newTrigger('callback name').forForm('form ref').onFormSubmit()).
The callback for the trigger calls the Web App url via UrlFetchApp.fetch() with necessary data (like spreadsheet id or any other info) as query (if using doGet) or request body (if using doPost).
The data you need will be available in the event object constructed on hit to doGet or doPost [note to avoid common misconception: you can't debug event objects in the editor, it can only be done live].
Reference
getActiveSpreadsheet() docs
getId() docs
getFileById() docs
Standalone scripts guide
Bound scripts guide
Libraries guide
Form submit event reference
new Trigger() docs
UrlFetchApp.fetch() docs
doGet / doPost event object docs
I have written a Google Spreadsheet script which reads data from a user provided CSV file, populates a sheet with the data, makes a copy of the spreadsheet with a different name, and provides a link for the user to click to see the new spreadsheet. After making the new copy, the original spreadsheet is then cleared of user data and restored to its original state so other users can use it.
I want to share this spreadsheet with the workgroup (several hundred users), but I don't want them to be able to modify either the sheet or the script. If I share it read-only the script won't run, but to get the script to run I have to allow users edit capability and that is a bad thing.
I have googled myself silly trying to find a direction in which to go, but I am still wandering in the wilderness.
Can any of you point me in the right direction? If I need to be more specific or provide more information I will be glad to do so.
Thanks,
Larry
P.S. Other questions of note:
o Is it possible for a app-script in a spreadsheet to make the new copy active and 'close' the original shared spreadsheet?
o Can the user be made the owner of the new copy?
There is the option to put the code that you don't want modified, into a Stand Alone Apps Script file, then use that code as a "Library" in your script bound to the sheet. You can set the permissions on the Stand Alone Apps Script to VIEW only. That will keep people from changing it. When you share the Apps Script file with the users, they will get an email notification. So, they'll have the URL to the file, and can view it, but they can't edit it. (If you set it to VIEW only)
So, you'll be using both your spreadsheet file, and a Apps Script file. Two files, and setting the sharing to VIEW only on the Apps Script file. You can still give people EDIT access to the spreadsheet.
You'll need to go through a process of making the function available to your spreadsheet. This is called a "Library", but don't pay much attention to that name when creating the file.
Create a Stand Alone Apps Script
Create the function you want to share.
Get the Project Key --> FILE, PROJECT PROPERTIES
Share the Apps Script file with users you want to give access to, but only give them VIEW access to the file. NOT Edit.
Give the Project Key to the user, (In this case that's just you.) and have them add the library, or if you have access to the spreadsheet, you can probably add the key yourself. So, in your case, you will not be sharing the Project Key with anyone. You don't need to.
In the script file that is bound to the spreadsheet, click the RESOURCES menu, and the LIBRARIES menu item.
Enter the Project Key
Click SELECT button, and turn the library ON.
Make sure to set the library Identifier to a key word you'd like to use.
Go to the code editor, create a function, and type the Library Identifier.
All the functions that are available from the Library will show up
Google Documentation - Gaining Access to a Library
Keep in mind, that creating a library is nothing more than writing code in an Apps Script in a stand alone Apps Script file. If you've done that, then all you need to share is the Project Key. The user of the Library won't see a list of all the available Libraries when Resources, Libraries is opened. You need the Key.
I am not able to find Adword API support in Google App Script,I can write adword script from adword account but currently i'm handling multiple account(almost 25) what i have to do is go inside individual account and copy my script in that account and adword script have limitation of maximum 15 script can be run by one user at a time, i want to create database of all account at one place that is possible through adword api in java and other programming languages,but i'm quite familiar with Google App script i want to use Adword API in App Script,how can i use UrlFetch() class of Google App Script to use adword api, so that just by replacing client Id of adword account i can get all data at one place(i have access to all account so no need to change username and password).
Thanks in advance for any help and information!
If I understand correctly, the main problem is that you want to to basicaly make a "code library?" So reuse the same bits of code between accounts?
One option is to use the Eval function, as detailed in tip 3 of this article: http://www.ppchero.com/tricks-for-running-adwords-scripts-in-multiple-accounts/. A second example of using this same method is here: http://www.freeadwordsscripts.com/2013/10/use-gdrive-to-load-single-adwords.html
You would then upload this into Google Drive, or point this to the location of the Google Script.
Another option, as detailed in the PPC Hero Article, is to use Google Sheets to pass the variables you need from one script to another. Basically, the SpreadsheetApp function works within all AdWords scripts, so you can use this to pass data along from external sources.
There are some example scripts regarding Adwords associated with these posts:
http://searchengineland.com/four-ways-you-can-benefit-by-using-adwords-scripts-145530
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/adwords-analysis-in-google-apps-script.html?m=1
I created a Google Apps Script project that is published as a WebApp visible for anyone, running as the accessing user.
This WebApp includes a Library project, which has methods to access ScriptDb as following:
function getDb() {
return ScriptDb.getMyDb();
}
function save(props) {
return getDb().save(props);
}
I intend to have one WebApp running per accessing user (using time-based triggers to access Gmail), however I would like to use the ScriptDb to store data independently from the user running the WebApp.
So I thought the chapter Centralizing a Place to Get a Database Instance from the Google Apps Script Documentation applies here, however I am getting the following error when accessing the WebApp:
You do not have access to library MyDBLibrary, used by your script, or it has been deleted.
Am I doing anything wrong? Was ScriptDb not intended to run independently of the user, when being accessed from a WebApp?
Joscha - you have the set up right and I reproduced everything you've reported. The last thing you were missing was to the share the Library project itself to the public.
The way to do that is to
1. Open the Library project in the script editor
2. Go to File -> Share
3. In the "Who has access" section, set it to anyone with the link can View (dont need edit).
Without this, Apps Script will now know its ok to serve the library code to the public. Hope this helps.
You may need to turn on development mode flag to make it work.
Here's what I did.
User A: Created a Master spreadsheet and created an app script and saved it with version 1.0.
User A: Gave access to this sheet to user B so they can use the common app script.
User A: Gave project access key to user B.
4.User B: Created a spreadsheet and added resource library with project key.
User B: Selected version 1.0.
User B: Turned on development mode.
Note: if I follow steps 1 through 5, then I still see the same error saying I don't have permission or the script has been deleted. However, also doing step 6 will resolve the error and allow you to use the shared script.