Background:
Company is updating the style and I've made an addon that should update existing documents to the current style-profile.
Solution:
A Google App Script [add-on] reads the right formating from a template-document and updates the active document to mirror it.
Snippet: This don't work correctly
var deltaAttri = [
"BACKGROUND_COLOR",
"FOREGROUND_COLOR",
"FONT_FAMILY",
"FONT_SIZE",
"SPACING_AFTER",
"SPACING_BEFORE"
];
var baseAttr = heading1.getAttributes();
var templateAttri = templateHeading1.getAttributes();
for(var d = 0;d<deltaAttri.length;d++){
baseAttr[deltaAttri[d]] = templateAttri [deltaAttri[d]];
}
heading1.setAttributes(baseAttr);
Problem:
Almost every attribute i fetch ( heading1.getAttributes() ) is null.
Heading1={
FONT_SIZE=null,
SPACING_BEFORE=null,
SPACING_AFTER=null,
FOREGROUND_COLOR=#073763,
FONT_FAMILY=null,
BACKGROUND_COLOR=null
}
Am I doing this wrong or is this outside the scipe of what to use App Script for?
I initially thought null ment the default value was set. If so, can I access/change the default?
Here's something I did with an Envelope Printer recently. It's a fairly standard way of loading an object.
function setupDocument()
{
var doc=DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var envelope10={};
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.PAGE_HEIGHT]=296;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.PAGE_WIDTH]=684;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 14;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.BOLD] = true;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING]=1;
doc.getBody().clear().setAttributes(envelope10);
}
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I have a very basic Google Workspace Add-on that uses the CalendarApp class to toggle the visabilty of a calendar’s events when a button is pressed, using the setSelected() method
The visabilty toggling works, but the change in only reflected in the UI when the page is refreshed. Toggling the checkbox manually in the UI reflects the change immediately without needing to refresh the page.
Is there a method to replicate this immediate update behaviour via my Workspace Add-On?
A mwe is below.
function onDefaultHomePageOpen() {
// create button
var action = CardService.newAction().setFunctionName('toggleCalVis')
var button = CardService.newTextButton()
.setText("TOGGLE CAL VIS")
.setOnClickAction(action)
.setTextButtonStyle(CardService.TextButtonStyle.FILLED)
var buttonSet = CardService.newButtonSet().addButton(button)
// create CardSection
var section = CardService.newCardSection()
.addWidget(buttonSet)
// create card
var card = CardService.newCardBuilder().addSection(section)
// call CardBuilder.call() and return card
return card.build()
}
function toggleCalVis() {
// fetch calendar with UI name "foo"
var calendarName = "foo"
var calendarsByName = CalendarApp.getCalendarsByName(calendarName)
var namedCalendar = calendarsByName[0]
// Toggle calendar visabilty in the UI
if (namedCalendar.isSelected()) {
namedCalendar.setSelected(false)
}
else {
namedCalendar.setSelected(true)
}
}
In short: Create a chrome extension
(2021-sep-2)Reason: The setSelected() method changes ONLY the data on server. To apply the effect of it, you need to refresh the page. But Google Workspace Extension "for security reason" does not allow GAS to do that. However in an Chrome Extension you can unselect the checkbox of visibility by plain JS. (the class name of the left list is encoded but stable for me.) I have some code for Chrome Extension to select the nodes although I didn't worked it out(see last part).
(2021-jul-25)Worse case: Default calendars won't be selected by getAllCalendars(). I just tried the same thing as you mentioned, and the outcome is worse. I wanted to hide all calendars, and I am still pretty sure the code is correct, since I can see the calendar names in the console.
const allCals = CalendarApp.getAllCalendars()
allCals.forEach(cal => {console.log(`unselected ${cal.setSelected(false).getName()}`)})
Yet, the principle calendar, reminder calendar, and task calendar are not in the console.
And google apps script dev should ask themselves: WHY DO PEOPLE USE Calendar.setSelected()? We don't want to hide the calendar on the next run.
In the official document, none of these two behaviour is mentioned.
TL;DR part (My reason for not using GAS)
GAS(google-apps-script) has less functionality. For what I see, google is trying to build their own eco-system, but everything achievable in GAS is also available via javascript. I can even use typescript and do whatever I want by creating an extension.
GAS is NOT easy to learn. The learning was also painful, I spent 4 hours to build the first sample card, and I can interact correctly with the opened event after 9 hours. The documentation is far from finished.
GAS is poorly supported. The native web-based code editor (https://script.google.com/) is not build for coding real apps, it loses the version control freedom in new interface. And does not support cross-file search. Instead of import, codes run from top to bottom in the list, which you need to find that by yourself. (pass along no extension, no prettier, I can tolerate these)
In comparison with other online JS code editors, like codepen / code sandbox / etcetera it does so less function. Moreover, VSCode also has a online version now(github codespaces).
I hope my 13 hours in GAS are not totally wasted. As least whoever read this can just avoid suffering the same painful test.
Here's the code(typescript) for disable all the checks in Chrome.
TRACKER_CAL_ID_ENCODED is the calendar ID of which I don't want to uncheck. Since it is not the major part of this question, it is not very carefully commented.
(line update: 2022-jan-31) Aware that the mutationsList.length >= 3 is not accurate, I cannot see how mutationsList.length works.
Extension:
getSelectCalendarNode()
.then(unSelectCalendars)
function getSelectCalendarNode() {
return new Promise((resolve) => {
document.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (document.readyState == "complete") {
const leftSidebarNode = document.querySelector(
"div.QQYuzf[jsname=QA0Szd]"
)!;
new MutationObserver((mutationsList, observer) => {
for (const mutation of mutationsList) {
if (mutation.target) {
let _selectCalendarNode = document.querySelector("#dws12b.R16x0");
// customized calendars will start loading on 3th+ step, hence 3, but when will they stop loading? I didn't work this out
if (mutationsList.length >= 3) {
// The current best workaround I saw is setTimeout after loading event... There's no event of loading complete.
setTimeout(() => {
observer.disconnect();
resolve(_selectCalendarNode);
}, 1000);
}
}
}
}).observe(leftSidebarNode, { childList: true, subtree: true });
}
};
});
}
function unSelectCalendars(selectCalendarNode: unknown) {
const selcar = selectCalendarNode as HTMLDivElement;
const calwrappers = selcar.firstChild!.childNodes; // .XXcuqd
for (const calrow of calwrappers) {
const calLabel = calrow.firstChild!.firstChild as HTMLLabelElement;
const calSelectWrap = calLabel.firstChild!;
const calSelcted =
(calSelectWrap.firstChild!.firstChild! as HTMLDivElement).getAttribute(
"aria-checked"
) == "true"
? true
: false;
// const calNameSpan = calSelectWrap.nextSibling!
// .firstChild! as HTMLSpanElement;
// const calName = calNameSpan.innerText;
const encodedCalID = calLabel.getAttribute("data-id")!; // const decodedCalID = atob(encodedCalID);
if ((encodedCalID === TRACKER_CAL_ID_ENCODED) !== calSelcted) {
//XOR
calLabel.click();
}
}
console.log(selectCalendarNode);
return;
}
There is no way to make a webpage refresh with Google Apps Script
Possible workarounds:
From the sidebar, provide users a link that redirects them to the Calendar UI webpage (thus a new, refreshed version of it will be opened)
Install a Goole Chrome extension that refreshes the tab in specified intervals
I have seen a few examples on Google Groups which demonstrate how to modify the css of the infobox. In this particular example, javascript is used to append a css link to the head of the document:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cesium-dev/f0iODd42PeI
var cssLink = frameDocument.createElement("link");
cssLink.href = buildModuleUrl('Path/To/Your/CSS/File.css');
cssLink.rel = "stylesheet";
cssLink.type = "text/css";
viewer.infoBox.frame.contentDocument.head.appendChild(cssLink);
This, however, has not resulted in any changes to the style of my markup.
At best, I have been able to wrap the contents of the infobox by iterating through the entities in the .then function call subsequent to loading a geoJson dataset. When wrapping the contents, I can set style values which are readily apparent in the resulting markup.
var dataSource = Cesium.GeoJsonDataSource.load('../data/mGeoJson.json').then(function(data) {
viewer.dataSources.add(data);
var entities = data.entities.values;
for (var i = 0; i < entities.length; i++)
var entity = entities[i];
if (entity.properties.hasOwnProperty("description")) {
entity.description = '<div style="height: 360px;">' + entity.properties.description
+ '</div>';
}
}
}
This is useful, but does not completely satisfy the requirements of my app.
Could someone provide additional insight into overriding the theme of the infobox, without having to iterate over entities to modify the value of their description properties?
The original solution here wasn't working, because the infoBox is an iframe that has not yet asynchronously loaded when you were trying to modify it.
Instead, you can add an load listener to the iframe, like this:
var viewer = new Cesium.Viewer('cesiumContainer');
var frame = viewer.infoBox.frame;
frame.addEventListener('load', function () {
var cssLink = frame.contentDocument.createElement('link');
cssLink.href = Cesium.buildModuleUrl('Path/To/Your/CSS/File.css');
cssLink.rel = 'stylesheet';
cssLink.type = 'text/css';
frame.contentDocument.head.appendChild(cssLink);
}, false);
This waits for the iframe to become ready to receive the modification, and then applies it.
For what it's worth, I've found success in modifying the theme of the infobox by simply importing my css files in the head of the document. I'm not sure why I wasn't able to modify it directly with stylesheets, as it wasn't previously affecting the infobox's appearance, and this issue was mirrored in the posts that I found in the cesium-dev Google Group. Regardless, it seems to be working just fine now.
I would like to use my microphone input to control an image i have. I managed to edit this code by far and get my image affected. There was javascriptNode.onaudioprocess = function() and for some reason it disabled my microphone input checking.
You shouldn't need a Javascript node at all. You should just use a requestAnimationFrame handler to do the section of your code that does:
var array = new Uint8Array(analyser.frequencyBinCount);
analyser.getByteFrequencyData(array);
var average = getAverageVolume(array);
var array2 = new Uint8Array(analyser2.frequencyBinCount);
analyser2.getByteFrequencyData(array2);
var average2 = getAverageVolume2(array2);
element.style.opacity = average/100;
element2.style.opacity = average2/100;
Below is old; look at the updated text at the bottom.
So my friends and I use google docs to communicate while in school, and we setup the challenge to create a working and "efficient" chat bar to communicate with better results. I've been around JavaScript for quite some time, but have never fooled around with Google Apps Script before. We are using the document app for our chats; the code I came up with is as below, but I have a few problems with it:
Errors when a user closes it, then goes to Chat -> Open Chat in the toolbar to re-open, saying, "Error encountered: An unexpected error occurred"; does not specify a line or reason
Needs a hidden element somewhere in the document which can allow users to see what others have typed, but that they can't edit without using the chat box (would add event listener to update chat box when text is ammended)
//Main function, ran when the document first opens.
function onOpen() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication(); //Create a Ui App to use for the chat bar
if(getCurrentUser()=="dev1"||getCurrentUser()=="dev2"){ //user-Id's hidden for privacy
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu('Chat')
.addItem('AutoColor', 'autoColor')
.addItem('Open Chat', 'createChatBox')
.addItem('Elements', 'displayElements') //Hidden as it is not important for regular use
.addItem('MyID', 'showUser')
.addToUi();
}else{
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu('Chat')
.addItem('AutoColor', 'autoColor')
.addItem('Open Chat', 'createChatBox')
.addToUi();
}
}
//Creates and returns the chats GUI
function createChatBox(){
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication()
app.setTitle("Chat Bar (not yet working)");
var vPanel = app.createVerticalPanel().setId('chatPanel').setWidth('100%');
var textArea = app.createTextArea().setId('chatBox').setName('chatBox').setReadOnly(true).setText('').setSize('250px', '450px'); //Read only so they can not edit the text, even if it won't affect overall chat
var textBox = app.createTextBox().setId('messageBox').setName('messageBox').setText('Words');
var chatHandler = app.createServerHandler("sayChat").addCallbackElement(textArea).addCallbackElement(textBox);
var chatButton = app.createButton().setId("sayButton").setText("Say!").addMouseUpHandler(chatHandler);
vPanel.add(textArea);
vPanel.add(textBox);
vPanel.add(chatButton);
app.add(vPanel);
DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(app);
return app;
}
//The event handler for when the "Say!" (post) button is pressed. Is probably where the conflict stems from.
function sayChat(eventInfo){
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
var parameter = eventInfo.parameter;
app.getElementById("chatBox").setText(parameter.chatBox+"["+getCurrentUser()+"]: "+parameter.messageBox);
app.getElementById("messageBox").setText("");
return app;
}
//A debug function and a function to tell you the unique part of your email (useless, really)
function showUser(){
DocumentApp.getUi().alert("Your userId is: "+getCurrentUser());
}
//Returns the unique part of a person's email; if their email is "magicuser#gmail.com", it returns "magicuser"
function getCurrentUser(){
var email = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
return email.substring(0,email.indexOf("#"));
}
//The Auto-color and displayElements methods are hidden as they contain other user-info. They both work as intended and are not part of the issue.
I do not need someone to rewrite the code (although that'd be greatly appreciated!), but instead point out what I'm doing wrong or suggest something to change/add.
Last, before you suggest it, the google docs chat does not work with our computers. It is not the fault of the document, but probably a compatability error with our browser. It is because of this issue that we are going through this fun yet hasty process of making our own chat method.
Update
I decided to give up on my version of the chat using pure Google Apps Script and help improve my friends version using both G-A-S and HTML. I added image thumbnail/linking support with command /img or /image, along with improved time and counter, and some other behind the scenes updates. Here is a quick screenshot of it:
Magnificent chat programmed from scratch, and no buggy update methods, just a casual refresh database to check for messages and set HTML text-area text. No more buggy getText methods. For each new message in the database, whether targeted toward the user or toward everyone in the chat, we load all the database messages up to a limit (50 messages at a time), then display them. The use of HTML in the messages is key to its appearence and features, such as images.
function getChat() {
var chat = "";
var time = getTime();
var username = getCurrentUsername();
var db = ScriptDb.getMyDb();
var query = db.query({time : db.greaterThan(getJoinTime())}).sortBy('time', db.DESCENDING).limit(50);
var flag = query.getSize() % 2 != 0;
while(query.hasNext()) {
var record = query.next();
if(record.showTo == "all" || record.showTo == getCurrentUsername()) {
var text = record.text;
for(var i = 0; i < text.split(" ").length; i++) {
var substr = text.split(" ")[i];
if(substr.indexOf("http://") == 0 || substr.indexOf("https://") == 0) {
text = text.replace(substr, "<a href='" + substr + "'>" + substr + "</a>");
}
}
var message = "<pre style='display:inline;'><span class='" + (flag? "even" : "odd") + "'><b>[" + record.realTime + "]</b>" + text;
message += "</span></pre>";
chat += message;
flag = !flag;
}
}
//DocumentApp.getUi().alert(getTime() - time);
return chat;
}
I am going to re-do his getChat() method to only check for new messages, and not load every message at each refresh.
First thing to to to get rid of your error message is to create the UiApp in the createChat function instead of onOpen.
I also used a client handler to clear the textBox because it's just more efficient. Here is the modified code :
code removed see updates below
As for your second request I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want to do... could you explain more precisely the behavior you expect ? (this is more a comment than an answer but I used the "answer field" to be more readable)
EDIT : I played a little with this code and came to something that -almost- works... it still needs to be improved but it's worth showing how it works.
I used scriptProperties to store the common part of the conversation, I think that's a good approach but the issue it to know when to update its content. Here is the code I have so far, I keep being open to any suggestion/improvement of course.
code removed, new version below
EDIT 2 : here is a version with an auto update that works quite good, the script updates the chat area automatically for a certain time... if no activity then it stops and wait for a user action. please test (using 2 accounts) and let us know what you think.
note I used a checkBox to handler the autoUpdate, I keep it visible for test purpose but of course it could be hidden in a final version.
EDIT 3 : added a message to warn the user when he's been put offline + changed textBox to colored textArea to allow for longer messages + condition to clear the messageBox so that the warning message doesn't go in the conversation. (set the time out to a very short value for test purpose, change the counter value to restore to your needs)
function onOpen() {
if(getCurrentUser()=="dev1"||getCurrentUser()=="dev2"){ //user-Id's hidden for privacy
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu('Chat')
.addItem('AutoColor', 'autoColor')
.addItem('Open Chat', 'createChatBox')
.addItem('Elements', 'displayElements') //Hidden as it is not important for regular use
.addItem('MyID', 'showUser')
.addToUi();
}else{
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu('Chat')
.addItem('AutoColor', 'autoColor')
.addItem('Open Chat', 'createChatBox')
.addToUi();
}
}
function createChatBox(){
ScriptProperties.setProperty('chatContent','');
var app = UiApp.createApplication().setWidth(252);
app.setTitle("Chat Bar");
var vPanel = app.createVerticalPanel().setId('chatPanel').setWidth('100%');
var chatHandler = app.createServerHandler("sayChat").addCallbackElement(vPanel);
var textArea = app.createTextArea().setId('chatBox').setName('chatBox').setReadOnly(true).setText('').setSize('250px', '450px');
var textBox = app.createTextArea().setId('messageBox').setName('messageBox').setText('Start chat...').setPixelSize(250,100).setStyleAttributes({'padding':'5px','background':'#ffffcc'}).addKeyPressHandler(chatHandler);
var clearTextBoxClientHandler = app.createClientHandler().forTargets(textBox).setText('');
textBox.addClickHandler(clearTextBoxClientHandler);
var chatButton = app.createButton().setId("sayButton").setText("Say!").addMouseUpHandler(chatHandler);
var chkHandler = app.createServerHandler('autoUpdate').addCallbackElement(vPanel);
var chk = app.createCheckBox().setId('chk').addValueChangeHandler(chkHandler);
vPanel.add(textArea);
vPanel.add(textBox);
vPanel.add(chatButton);
vPanel.add(chk);
app.add(vPanel);
DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(app);
return app;
}
function sayChat(e){
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
var user = '['+getCurrentUser()+'] : ';
if(e.parameter.messageBox=="You have been put offline because you didn't type anything for more than 5 minutes..., please click here to refresh the conversation"){
app.getElementById('messageBox').setText('');// clear messageBox
ScriptProperties.setProperty('chatTimer',0);// reset counter
return app;
}
if(e.parameter.source=='messageBox'&&e.parameter.keyCode!=13){return app};
var content = ScriptProperties.getProperty('chatContent');
ScriptProperties.setProperty('chatContent',content+"\n"+user+e.parameter.messageBox)
app.getElementById("chatBox").setText(content+"\n"+user+e.parameter.messageBox+'\n');
app.getElementById('messageBox').setText('');
app.getElementById('chk').setValue(true,true);
ScriptProperties.setProperty('chatTimer',0);
return app;
}
function autoUpdate(){
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
var content = ScriptProperties.getProperty('chatContent');
var counter = Number(ScriptProperties.getProperty('chatTimer'));
++counter;
if(counter>20){
app.getElementById('chk').setValue(false);
app.getElementById('messageBox').setText("You have been put offline because you didn't type anything for more than 5 minutes..., please click here to refresh the conversation");
return app;
}
ScriptProperties.setProperty('chatTimer',counter);
var content = ScriptProperties.getProperty('chatContent');
app.getElementById("chatBox").setText(content+'*'); // the * is there only for test purpose
app.getElementById('chk').setValue(false);
Utilities.sleep(750);
app.getElementById('chk').setValue(true,true).setText('timer = '+counter);
return app;
}
function showUser(){
DocumentApp.getUi().alert("Your userId is: "+getCurrentUser());
}
function getCurrentUser(){
var email = Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail();
return email.substring(0,email.indexOf("#"));
}
I ran into a strange problem with a content script. The content script is defined as "run_at" : "document_end" in the manifest. After a page is loaded the script inserts an object tag into the page (if the tag with predefined id does not exist yet), and sets some properties in it, such as type, width, height, innerHTML, and title. All works fine here.
function checkForObject()
{
var obj = document.getElementById("unique_id");
if(obj == null)
{
var d = document.createElement("object");
d.id = "unique_id";
d.width = "1";
d.height = "1";
d.type = "application/x-y-z";
d.title = "1000";
d.style.position = "absolute";
d.style.left = "0px";
d.style.top = "0px";
d.style.zIndex = "1";
document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(d);
}
}
checkForObject();
I see the new object in the page html-code with proper values in its properties.
Some time later I need to read the title property of the object in the same content script. The code is simple:
function ReadTitle()
{
var obj = document.getElementById("unique_id");
var value = obj.title; // breakpoint
console.log(value);
// TODO: want to use proper title value here
}
The function is called from background.html page:
chrome.tabs.onActivated.addListener(
function(info)
{
chrome.tabs.executeScript(info.tabId, {code: 'setTimeout(ReadTitle, 250);'});
});
Unfortunately, in ReadTitle I'm getting not what I expect. Instead of current value of the title I see the logged value is:
function title() { [native code] }
If I set a breakpoint at the line marked by // breakpoint comment, I see in the watcher that all object properties including the title are correct. Nevertheless, the variable value gets the abovementioned descriptive string.
Apparently, I have missed something simple, but I can't figure it out.
The answer. It was a bug in the npapi plugin, which hosts the object of used type. My apologies for all who have read the question with intention to help.
The NPAPI plugin used in the object erroneously reported title as supported method.