I am creating a google apps script for a private reason but this is nothing about the code. If you are confused by the title, I will explain what I mean:
I'm pretty sure most google drive users have used add-ons before. When you launch an addon, it runs a script. Perfectly normal, but the thing is, you don't know when it is running a script because there isn't anything indicating it. What I want is to hide that big blue bar that appears when you run a script.
I tried looking at Google Apps Script's website but if you tried searching something like this on the web, your browser won't understand you which is why I decided to use stack overflow.
Here is a picture of what I want to get rid of:
as you can see here the I want to hide the "Finished Script" thing using Google Apps Script or some other way.
Based from this blog, as soon as you click the Apps Script button, you’ll see a yellow bar "Running function <function-name>". This will indicate that the script is running. When done, the bar will read “Finished Script”. This is a built-in Google Apps Script feature. I think you will not be able to remove this feature.
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I have a custom script that runs when i click an image i insert in a google spreadsheet ... everything is working on non-touch devices ... but on mobile, inside the sheets app, it does no trigger the function ... it just selects the image
am i doing anything wrong here?
are google script supposed to work inside the sheets app? if not i really do no see the point of using them
link is not the solution, custom menus also do not appear on the sheets app ... i am literally left without any idea to try out
thanks
As far as I know Google Apps Script runs only on Desktop computer and that too only when Script is allowed to run on your browser. For most part Google Apps Script is same as JavaScript. I have tried to run them on Android phones but without any success.
I have a Google Doc add-on that utilizes the sidebar: no problem there. When one uses the Google research add-on, there is an secondary slide out from the sidebar that shows a preview of a search result (see picture below) when clicked. I am hoping to replicate this behaviour, but I see nothing about it in the api regarding size and limits. I tried having a tooltip pop up on my links in the sidebar, but they appear cut off or under the main Google Doc palette. I have tried a bunch of other Google Doc add-ons to see if any of them replicate this functionality, but they don't. Before I spend hours on this, I want to first ask is anyone know if this is specific permission for Google's sidebar only, or can developers replicate this functionality?
The Research Tool is a direct integration with Docs and Presentations, it's not a Google Apps Script add-on. The freedom to "slide out" within the document is not available to add-ons today.
As one alternative, you could use an accordion affect to collapse your "first page" and overlay the result page, still within the bounds of the sidebar.
A second alternative would be to use a non-modal window, where you'd have more freedom. (resizing there requires client-server exchanges, but is doable)
I am trying to write a simple add-on for Google Docs. It basically a list of items I want to have visible on the side when I am using Docs. I followed this simple tutorial.
I don't want to publish such a simple add-on unnecessarily. Is there a way that I could use it just within my Google Docs without publishing it ?
If you've just copied the sample code into your document's script, it already works there. To activate the script you have to reopen the document, then in the menus at the top click Custom Menu -> Show sidebar.
You only have to publish a script if you want to share your add-on with other users.
If you still have problems, take a look at Add-on Quickstart. It describes add-on creation process in details.
So I made this google apps script to use the google picker on my google sites webpage. The apps script is inserted into the webpage via the google apps script gadget. This all functions as I intended, however, it does not behave the way I'd like it to or expected. Everything is rendered inside the requisite IFRAME. And from what I can find and tried, this has to be the case (please correct me if I'm wrong). This requires me to provide the screen real estate to show the picker even when it's not visible - which is pretty poor design. Does anyone know a way around this? That is, to make the picker modal to or pop out of the IFRAME instead stuck inside it?
If your making a script using the Google script editor, how do you get the url of the script your running in the google script editor in google docs? (sorry for not capitalizing the word google)
If I'm understanding your question, you can choose the "Publish" -> "Deploy As a Web App..." menu item. From there, the pop-up will show "Deploy as Web App" with a text box underneath containing the URL. Grab that (or click the "latest code" link just below it). You don't have to follow-through on the re-deploy (if you do, you'll want to use the URL it presents in a pop-up after doing so)
If you haven't previously deployed it, you'll need to save a "version" and deploy it, as touched on here. Upon doing that, it will present you with the Url in a pop-up as mentioned above. If you miss it, the the first part of this answer applies.