I've got a Google Form which is attached to a spreadsheet and a script. It's got one radio button field. When a choice is made, I want to run the script to remove the choice from the list. So far so good - I've got this working well.
However, when I use images with the choices, the script removes all of the images. Is there a way of not deleting the images? Or at least a way of accessing the images associaed with a Choice to get me started?
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I'm trying to automatically fill in a google form through a link, as seen in this post:
Auto-Fill or automate a Google Form
Is there any way to do this, or is there a better way to submit the form?
I tried following the above tutorial, along with trying to splice the two form responses created from submitting the two pages, I also tried going to both urls in sequence. Not sure what else to do, someone please help.
When editing a Google form manually, you can usually click on an item, and on the side appears a menu, which includes the button "import questions". This button is very useful for me as it allows me to collect questions from past Google forms and import them to new Google forms.
But I'm looking through the Forms documentation, and I can't figure out how to do this via Google apps script programatically.
Here is the documentation:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/forms/form
The closest thing to what I want is the .moveItem() method, which moves an item from one spot in a form to another. But it only works within the same form. I want to know if I could do it across forms. And ideally, instead of moving the item, it would make a copy of the item in the new form.
I considered the .getItems() method, but there doesn't seem to be a general .addItem() method I could use on the new form. Would I have to go through the painstaking process of having to identify each item type, and specify how the details of each one should be copied to the new form, including things like point values of a question and whether or not the question is required?
I want to import from forms that have all kinds of content: video, images, multiple choice questions, grid questions, number scale questions, etc. I feel that if I have to specify the details of each item type, it would take too long, and I would be bound to miss something or run into an error that may be impossible to solve. Is there not an easier way?
And if specifying each item type is what I have to do to import everything properly, has someone else created that code already that I can re-use?
Issue:
In the current stage, unfortunately, it seems that Forms Service cannot copy all items. Ref1, Ref2 Ref3. And, unfortunately, moveItem can be used for the same Google Form as you say.
Workaround:
In your situation, as a workaround, how about copying the source Google Form? And, when there are some items you want to remove, you can remove them. I thought that this process can be achieved by Google Apps Script.
But, I'm not sure about your actual Google Form. So I'm not sure whether this is a suitable method.
Future:
Recently, Google Forms API was announced. Ref When this API got to be able to be used, your goal might be able to be achieved by retrieving the object from Google Form. Unfortunately, I'm still not sure about the detail of it.
I have multiple multiple choice questions and checkboxes with images inside them. I am trying to compile all the questions into a doc file. How do I get the images inside the questions? They are not in a separate Image Item.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qdqNcaaiKxOoi4IiNc_3xcr1X3uw84qnV7mqMzcQA-0/edit?usp=sharing (This is a sample form containing an Image inside the question in case it isn't clear from the text)
Answer:
Unfortunately, at the moment there is no way to get/set images in multiple choice questions using Apps Script.
Feature Request:
There is already a feature request for setting images using FormApp, which can be found at the following link:
Add an image to a Google Form item (different from ImageItem)
You should star this issue to let Google know that this is a highly requested feature so that they can prioritise feature requests.
Alternatively, create a second Feature request specifically about getting the image and link to this one. The link to flie a feature request for Apps Script is here.
This feature has been assigned and is expected to come soon. https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/135828271 star this issue for progress updates
Above a frozen row I want to put an image that is linked to a script; e.g. click the image and a script runs.
I can insert an image and add a script to it, problem: can only be
done under frozen row.
I can insert an image using =image("imageurl";2), I can even put a
hyperlink to this =hyperlink("url"; image("imageurl";2)) and this
works nicely but I can't call a script.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
How do you add UI inside cells in a google spreadsheet using app script? ... shows how to insert a drawing and link it to a script. Unfortunately, as you've found, floating images are not allowed in frozen rows or columns, so that technique breaks down if you must freeze rows. A quick search on the interwebs will show that this has been a long-term complaint about Google Sheets. (For instance.)
There are options, none of them ideal:
Use a custom menu function instead. That means users need to hunt a bit to find the menu option to kick your script, but it does stay in view no matter where they are.
Use the hyperlink & image work-around you've described, but use a published script url as the target. That will allow you to run a google apps script, indirectly.
Use a sidebar. OK, this isn't actually supported in Sheets yet - visit Issue 3162 and star it for updates.
I have a dynamically generated spreadsheet. I would like to be able to allow the viewer to go to a different sheet/cell when a cell is clicked on. I'm having trouble figuring out a good way to do this.
Going to the new cell is fairly easy: Spreadhseet.setActiveSheet()/Spreadsheet.setActiveRange() work fine. My thought was to encode the link destination in the contents of the source cell, and then write a script to "follow" the link.
I tried using images or drawings. But there were two problems with this: while images can be inserted programmatically, I did not see a way to programmatically associate a script with them. And the called script does not have an associated event tied to it, so there is no way to see what cell the user clicked (clicking an image does not set the active cell).
I thought about using onEdit(). This almost works, but onEdit is only triggered on changes (not selection) so the user actually has to modify the cell in order to "link". When testing I tended to zap the contents of the cell by accident with onEdit.
I tried making a menu item, and in the menu's script get the active cell's contents to determine where to go to. This worked but was a bit more difficult for the user than I was hoping for.
I was hoping someone would have a creative solution to this problem.
Thanks!
From what you are describing the drawing or image insertion should work since it has exactly the same functionality as the menu item. You can assign a script to it just like in a menu.