I am working in google Apps Scripts, specifically with Google Drive. I am trying to make an application that when the user types in text into the text field, the program takes the text and sets its description using setDescription(). Everything is working fine, i just cannot figure out how to take whatever text the user enters and set it as the description.
Thanks in advance
First get the value of input
Example code from this SO answer:
var textbox = app.createTextBox().setName("textboxName");
var buttonHandler = app.createServerHandler("updateLabelText").addCallbackElement(textbox);
var button = app.createButton("Click me").addClickHandler(buttonHandler);
var label = app.createLabel().setId("label");
Then in your function:
function updateLabelText(e) {
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
app.getElementById("label").setText(e.parameter.textboxName);
return app;
}
Assign a Simple Trigger
doGet(e) runs when a user visits a web app or a program sends an HTTP GET request to a web app.
doPost(e) runs when a program sends an HTTP POST request to a web app.
Set Text as Description
// Trash every untitled spreadsheet that hasn't been updated in a week.
var files = DriveApp.getFilesByName('Untitled spreadsheet');
files.setDescription(description)
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Problem
I want to be able to monitor user activity on my google site using Apps Script, specifically which pages users are accessing. I can not use Google Analytics (it is not within my contract with Google). Apps Script has so far been able to return user ID (email address) of the user when a page is accessed, however I can not work out how to return which page(s) are activated by that user.
What I have done so far
I have created a web app and deployed / embedded it within to 2 pages in a test google site. It returns the values to a table in a linked google sheets file. Here is the script:
function doGet(event) {
return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('UserLog.html');
}
function getPage(pageTitle) {
var user = Session.getActiveUser();
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var db = "Webapp Log";
var db_ss = ss.getSheetByName(db);
var now = new Date();
var page = pageTitle;
var values = [now,user,page,"User activated webapp",Session.getTemporaryActiveUserKey()];
db_ss.getRange(db_ss.getLastRow()+1, 1, 1, 5).setValues([values]);
};
The "UserLog.html" code is this:
<html>
<head>
<base target="_top">
</head>
<body>
<script>
var page = [Solution]
google.script.run.getPage(page);
</script>
</body>
</html>
And so far the return values look like this (with addresses anonymised):
Table Values
As you can see, the 'Page' field is blank.
What I need
Use the embedded web app to return the activated page URL OR to return another unique aspect of the activated page, for example the page title or "page 1", "page 2", etc. (all pages on the site have a unique title).
How can this be done? Is this even possible?
You can do it with e.parameters
E.g. incorporate a parameter page that you append at the end of the WebApp URL.
When you embedd the WebApp URL in each page, assign a unique value to page, like https://script.google.com/a/XXX/macros/s/XXX/exec?page=1, https://script.google.com/a/XXX/macros/s/XXX/exec?page=2
Now, in Apps Script you just have to slightly modify your doGet() function to retrieve the page:
function doGet(event) {
var page = event.parameter.page;
return HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('UserLog.html');
}
The rest depends on your preferences. The easiest would be to directly paste the value of page into the spreadsheet from the doGet() function - this will avoid passing the parameter to the html file and then, with google.script.run back to a .gs function.
I have a function launchForm within a Google Sheet which calls another function createForm with a single question. I get the URL of the newly created form and pass it into a sandbox Iframe using UrlFetchApp, as shown below:
function launchForm() {
var form = createForm(); // separate function that works fine
formUrl = form.getPublishedUrl()
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(formUrl,{"followRedirects" : true}); // true if automatic redirecting works
var formHtml = response.getContentText();
var htmlApp = HtmlService
.createHtmlOutput(formHtml)
.setSandboxMode(HtmlService.SandboxMode.IFRAME)
.setXFrameOptionsMode(HtmlService.XFrameOptionsMode.ALLOWALL) // did this to prevent error but didn't help
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
ss.show(htmlApp);
}
I have created a custom menu in sheets to run the launchForm function.
The trouble is, that the new form URL is at docs.google.com/a/, while the sheet is at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/...
This means that the iframe, instead of loading the form, opens up to a sign-in screen in when I (the creator of the form) tries to run it. When someone else with edit permissions runs the script, he sees the form as expected, but is then unable to make any inputs into the form.
I have read about CORS, X-frame-options, OAuth2, and nothing seems to provide the precise answer about what I must do. Any help will be much appreciated.
I have a spreadsheet that I only want users to modify by running a script. The script is a UiApp that has a few pre-defined input fields and text boxes and the results are submitted onto the spreadsheet. Because I only want the document modified from this app, I have to set the permissions of the spreadsheet to "Can comment." However, in doing this, the users cannot run the script (because the script edits the page and they don't have editing rights to the page). So I assume that I need to create a web app.
The web app would be stand-alone and would run as me (the owner) so that calls to the app would allow the submitted data to be written to the spreadsheet. My web app looks something like this:
function doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
// UiApp elements are added here
return app;
}
...and the works fine when the url is accessed directly from the browser. However, I would like for the app to open w/i the spreadsheet from a spreadsheet trigger. I was thinking something like this:
var app = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
ss.show(app);
...but this is not working. The error I get is: "Invalid argument: userInterface (line 12, file "Web App")." Line 12 is "ss.show(app)." I was hoping that the app object would be returned from UrlFetch, but I now know that an HTTPResponse is returned.
How can I convert this response into a UiApp object? Thanks.
The solution I came up with was to have the UiApp open on the spreadsheet (from a trigger) and have the user choose the drop-downs and complete the text boxes. Upon clicking the submit button, the handler function would take all of the parameters and create a payload. Then this payload was passed to a doPost(e) stand-alone web app. Because I passed the ssid, the web app was able to locate the spreadsheet/sheet/range and write/format the data in a certain way. Here is my code:
var payload = {
"ssid" : ssid,
"sheetName" : sheetName,
"row" : row,
"col" : col,
"method" : method,
"strategy" : strategy,
"summary" : summary,
};
var options = {
"method" : "post",
"payload" : payload
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
This way the users can input the information in a certain format without having editing rights to the sheet.
I'm trying to create a personal notifier whenever a certain website contains the word 'Indian' the script should email me.
For some reason I cannot find a script function that would import HTML data,
Is there such a function?
Yes, you can perform a URL fetch:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/url-fetch/url-fetch-app#fetch(String)
Just like Harold said, you can perform a URL fetch:
var output = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/####");
var form = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(output.getContentText());
SpreadsheetApp.getUI().showModalDialog(form, "Fetched HTML");
You can otherwise fetch a website using the same tactic, for example:
var output = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://www.google.com");
var form = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(output.getContentText());
SpreadsheetApp.getUI().showModalDialog(form, "Fetched HTML");
Upon launch, the dialog should return Google's homepage.
Hi I'm trying to show contact photo using google apps script,
this is what i have so far. so i connect successfully to contacts,
take first one, it's id, then i authenticate using OAuth, load
full contact profile, i even have a link to the photo, but it
won't show. I read somewhere that adding access token to link
would help but where to get this token from?
function doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var c = ContactsApp.getContacts();
c1 = c[0];
var options = OAuthApp.getAuth('contacts','http://www.google.com/m8/feeds');
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(c1.getId().replace(/base/,'full')+"?alt=json&v=3.0", options);
var object = Utilities.jsonParse(response.getContentText());
app.add(app.createImage(object.entry.link[0].href));
return app;
}
When i'm using UrlFetchApp.fetch (that includes options paramer that include authorisation) it loads the image data, but i don't know how to authorise app.createImage instead.
UiApp can't display private images. Star issue 912 http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/detail?id=912