I setup an app script from this help file: https://developers.google.com/gsuite/solutions/vacation-calendar
The default Access setting for users in our domain is to "See all Events" for all domain users - but when I run the sync, it runs without error - picks up only one users event and it doesn't pick up my test 'out of office' event I created.
Does this script need additional perms or do I need to change my sharing settings - I dont know.
I found the answer - so I'm just going to close this particular issue. The script parses a Google Group, I was using the "all hands" special team alias in the group, which does not break out the individual users. I'm going to try and change the script to use the Directory API instead.
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I'm creating forms on demand and i need to be able to set up the triggers. If i do it on the main AppsScript script that is handling the forms creation, i'll hit the 20 triggers max quota pretty soon. So i decided to add a dedicated script to every form (associating with parentID) so i won't hit the quota.
My problem is that when i try to add the triggers i'm getting permission denied since the scripts created for each form are using a default GCP project and it needs to be a standard GCP project due to OAuth.
I can add the project number manually, but that kind of defeats the idea of being able to generate google forms on demand.
I want to be able to link the script created with the standard GCP project that is already configured, but i just can't find anything on Google's documentation, i know its a long shot but i've decided to post here in hopes that someone that had the same problem managed to do so.
As requested on the comments below, the triggers that i'm using are:
onFormSubmit - get the response and send it to my endpoint in the backend server
onOpen - ensures that the editor hasn't removed anything default (this only works when an editor opens the form in edit mode)
This is the project number im referring to.
Thanks
I've successfully created picklists from a Google sheet into a Google form following a tutorial (http://wafflebytes.blogspot.com/2016/10/google-script-create-drop-down-list.html) and Google's documentation, however I do not have the option to set a trigger on the Event 'From spreadsheet', as laid out in the the tutorials/documentation, so I must be missing a step and haven't been able to figure out what it is.
The result is that the options are not automatically updating and must be manually pushed. I would like to enable the options to be refreshed on open.
I do not have the option to updateForm + from spreadsheet, as pictured in those resources.
From tutorial
My options
What step am I missing? Or is this possibly a permissions issue (I am not owner of the documents, but I tried to reproduce this in docs I own and ran into the same issue)?
NOTE: I have not posted my script here because it's nearly identical to the one linked to in the tutorial.
Update:
I'm beginning more and more to think it has to do with our OAuth configurations or permissions. I even updated the manifest to explicitly authorize forms and sheets, but I'm still not offered sharing permissions. I will have our admin check in on this but if anybody has had experience in these matters, I'm all ears.
Since your options shows "From form", you are working on a project bounded to a form instead of the one that you created from your spreadsheet which is the one bounded to spreadsheet.
Rather than missing a tutorial step it could be that you had several script projects open at the same time and you are looking at the wrong one.
Reference
Event Objects
Is it possible with one Google Apps Script published as a Web Application to be flexible enough to connect to different spreadsheets depending on the person or webmaster using the Application?
I saw when working with one of my scripts there are ‘script properties’ and then ‘user properties’ tabs under ‘Project properties’.
I tried to add a property but couldn't get it to Stick
So then I found Google Apps Script ‘Class Properties’ area.
When I think of how these two properties might work, I think of Google Gadgets. A user can add a gadget to her Google Site but can then change or configure the Gadget in the properties area of that gadget
Is this type of functionality possible?
You can configure settings that will allow one script to access the files of the user of the Apps Script. The user needs to log in with their Google account.
You can publish the Apps Script script to run as ANYONE, and Execute the app as: User Accessing the Web App. Which requires the user to log in with their Google Account, and will allow the script to access the users files.
The Properties Service is for storage. It doesn't set or grant permissions. A break down comparison of the different types of Properties is shown at:
Comparison of Property Stores
For the question, 'Can Google Script me modified to run differently depending on who's running it', yes.
For example, you could use the function 'getActiveUser()', and dependent on who the user was, you could set a variable such as 'thisUsersSheet == usersSpreadsheet key', among many other ways to do this.
Whether or not it would be possible to have it replaced site gadgets, that's much more dependent on what you're trying to achieve specifically.
Note: You mention 'Script properties' and 'User Properties' in your question. Stay away from these, they are deprecated.
HiMy problem is following: I would like to create small web page, on which it will be possible to create event in Google Calendar, but with some restrictions. In my case this calendar could be edited by my flatmates to reserve washing machine. This reservation cannot overlap and also all of us has limited number of days when we can use it. I have created private calendar, and I have created script which validate requests, and if everything is ok add event to calendar. This script is executed as me (because only I have permission to edit this calendar).
But I have problem with fetching information which user execute this script (me or one of my flatmate). Class Session contains 2 methods getActiveUser() and getEffectiveUser() but active user does not work (I guess because privacy protection policy). But if I create another script which is executed as user accessing the web I can get active user.
Does anybody know if is it possible to communicate somehow between this 2 scripts embedeed on the same site? I want to pass email of active user from one script to another. Or maybe do you know better solution how to solve this problem?
Regards
Adam
As you noticed, you need to set the script to run as the user accessing it to get his email. Then, instead of accessing the calendar directly (which you obviously can't) you can call another script published, but running as yourself allowing anonymous access that will receive this request from the "viewing" script and create the calendar events for it.
After you publish this "background" script, get its url and use it on a UrlfetchApp.fetch call to it. Then pass the parameters as url paremeters (or on payload if you prefer to use post instead of get).
The background script may even use ContentService to give nice return values to the calling script.
Sure, you can do so, but it's not as simple as you'd like. Make your admin level script run a web service that responds to the other script. It can probably be hacked as you can't authenticate the users, but comon, this is a washing macine!
I have a spreadsheet with a UI app script. The app reads/updates from the spreadsheet.
My current settings are: Execute the app as "me".
Who has access to the app: "anyone".
I'm essentially sending out workflows that have assignments by email. Those emails can be outside of the domain but would all be gmail addresses.
I had hoped I'd be able to access the Session.getActiveUser() as I need to allow certain functionality on the app based on user accessing the UiApp. That function does not seem to provide any info unless I'm logged in as the script owner. Session.getActiveUser() is blank when accessing from a different address.
Is there a way to get the active user without having to Execute the app as "User accessing the app". I'd rather not have to share the spreadsheet with all the end users.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Rewrite from comments for readability :
Sharing the spreadsheet in this context doesn't mean anybody could open the spreadsheet directly as a document as long as the url of the spreadsheet remains unknown. The app will indeed need to have access to it if you deploy your app as 'User accessing the webapp' but no one can find the url of the sheet unless you publish it. I use this configuration very often but of course I don't know your exact use case... ;-) In my case the app itself determines what a specific user can do or not (by enabling /disabling certain functions / panels depending on the logged user.
Here is an example of an app like this, can you find the source spreadsheet ?
My spreadsheet has "anyone with the link" so the app can read and write to it but the name of the spreadsheet and its url is unknown (except for me) so it never appears in the document list of the user even if the user "writes" something in the document through the webapp (since he never actually "opens" it). I checked that on different accounts and never found any exception.
The active user and the property's like email etc.. Are not accessible with a public google account. It is accessible and useable with a google apps account within your own domain. See http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
Otherwise it's just a point of privacy on the web.
A litle disappointing i can imagine but logical if you think about it.
I do have another tip for you. Have al look at this link http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023210.do
O'reilly also implemented a workflowsystem. It uses the url parameters to pass email (identity) information. Not really secure, but in combination with the Utilities.DigestAlgorithm SHA encoding you could take steps to encode your url email-parameters.
Hope this is helpfull.