I'm was trying to show html body of gmail message in modal dialog window but faced an error calling SpreadsheetApp.getUi() method.
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var html = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(threads[i].getMessages()[0].getBody());
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(html, 'My add-on');
...
How I can call that dialog? Or may be there is better aproach to display message(some panel or sidebar)?
This prompt box is misleading, as the error must be elsewhere. The new version of Sheets not only does support the getUI method, I believe it's specifically designed for for the new version of sheets.
I've expanded on your previous question and tested this myself with the following code in the new version of sheets:
function getMail() {
var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();
var messages = threads[0].getMessages()[0];
var raw = messages.getPlainBody();
return raw;
}
function dialogueBox(){
var raw = getMail();
var htmlOutput = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(raw);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(htmlOutput, 'For mk_yo');
}
and it displays the prompt with no issues, as shown here. Try creating a new sheet with a new script and run the code above. Additionally, you can try ensuring that the sheet that you're adding this to is definitely using the new version of sheets.
In relation to if there's a better approach by displaying a side panel, yes you can use custom sidebars in the new version of Google sheets(and only the new version), but as this still uses the 'getUI' method, this won't resolve your current error, as this is not where the issue lies.
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I am trying to launch an Google Form from a script on Google sheets. At the moment, i am doing it trough the form's unique ID and this is what I have:
function addtoDatabase() {
var formaddnew = FormApp.openById('uniqueformID');
}
I am sure i am using the correct form's ID. The script runs without returning any errors or exceptions but the form isn't launched. I am new to App script and I think I might be overlooking something.
Thank you for your help.
You (as me too) were confused with a strange name of function openById:
var formaddnew = FormApp.openById('uniqueformID');
This code does not "open" a form, it assigns a form to the variable formaddnew. You may check it if you add this line of code:
Logger.log(formaddnew);
run the code and press [Ctrl]+[Enter] to see the log.
How to open a form with a script
No. One has no such option because scripts have no access to a browser. A Form is actually opened in a browser, and google-apps-script cannot open new tabs in a browser.
Is there any way though to open a form from a pop-up or message box?
Please try the method described here:
Google Apps Script to open a URL
Here's a tested sample code based on this answer:
var C_URL = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48947678/launching-google-form-from-app-script'; // change
function onOpen() {
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
// Or DocumentApp or FormApp.
ui.createMenu('Menu')
.addItem('Show Window', 'testNew')
.addToUi();
}
function testNew(){
showAnchor('Open this link',C_URL);
}
function showAnchor(name,url) {
var html = '<html><body>'+name+'</body></html>';
var ui = HtmlService.createHtmlOutput(html)
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModelessDialog(ui,"demo");
}
Notes:
the script creates a custom menu and opens the window with an URL.
User has to click the URL.
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 wanted to learn a little more about Google Forms so I did this little form and as I was adding text validation to the the textItems which are meant to contain a URL and an Email I noticed that some of the things I expected to see in the code completion drop downs were not available. So I tried running without them and kept on getting errors like "cannot find setValidation(TextValidationBuilder)".
function createSimpleForm()
{
var linkValidation=FormApp.createTextValidation().requireTextIsUrl();
var emailValidation=FormApp.createTextValidation().requireTextIsEmail();
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var form=FormApp.create('Google Apps Script Question');
form.setDescription('A Simple Form to display my script editing problem.')
.setConfirmationMessage('Thanks. I\'ll be getting back to you at your email.')
.setAllowResponseEdits(true)
.setAcceptingResponses(false)
.setDestination(FormApp.DestinationType.SPREADSHEET, ss.getId());
var containerLink=form.addTextItem();
containerLink.setTitle('Enter a URL')
.setValidation(linkValidation);
var clientEmail=form.addTextItem();
clientEmail.setTitle('Enter an email address')
.setValidation(emailValidation)
.isRequired();
}
Then I noticed that only the build() command returns a TextValidation object and that's what the parameter for setValidation needs
So at that point I decided to stick the commands that I thought belong there and finished with a build() and code runs with no errors.
function createSimpleForm()
{
var linkValidation=FormApp.createTextValidation().setHelpText('This must be a URL.').requireTextIsUrl().build();
var emailValidation=FormApp.createTextValidation().setHelpText('This must be a EMail.').requireTextIsEmail().build();
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var form=FormApp.create('Google Apps Script Question');
form.setDescription('A Simple Form to display my script editing problem.')
.setConfirmationMessage('Thanks. I\'ll be getting back to you at your email.')
.setAllowResponseEdits(true)
.setAcceptingResponses(false)
.setDestination(FormApp.DestinationType.SPREADSHEET, ss.getId());
var containerLink=form.addTextItem();
containerLink.setTitle('Enter a URL')
.setValidation(linkValidation);
var clientEmail=form.addTextItem();
clientEmail.setTitle('Enter an email address')
.setValidation(emailValidation)
.isRequired();
}
I tried shutting down my browser and returning to the script editor but it doesn't seem to make any difference the same methods still missing from content assist. I'm wondering if any one else has had the same problem?
Yes, the methods build, copy, and setHelpText are missing from the autocomplete on TextValidationBuilder objects. You may want to report this on the Apps Script issue tracker.
Documentation is more reliable than the editor, so when in doubt, go with what documentation says. The autocomplete is flawed in other ways; for example, on the array objects it misses such basic methods as indexOf, map, filter, and reduce.
I am using google app script to create a form for uploading file. This is my Code.gs file:
var SPREADSHEET_FILE_ID = '1oQn6OLMzys8tVk1FLriOAmpzFJNazLRP-SwM7--eA58';
var folderId = "0B9TN_-yt-h0WZ0dnWndGWkw3UkE";
function doGet() {
var template = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('index');
// Build and return HTML in IFRAME sandbox mode.
return template.evaluate()
.setTitle('Web App Window Title')
.setSandboxMode(HtmlService.SandboxMode.IFRAME);
};
And I am using all other codes almost similar to the url https://script.google.com/d/125dG42eB9lM4SPq64p0dpR2CBH4ohfHiqu9TvFNM8s4Ra7pt-7kHXoTM/edit?usp=sharing.
I am getting the following error.
3402363213-mae_html_user_bin_i18n_mae_html_user.js:42 Uncaught ReferenceError: "doc" is not defined.
Can anyone please help why this error is coming and how to prevent this. No for is not being submitted. It is hanged after I click the button of submission.
Since the problem started when you added these values, I think you need to recheck them.
var SPREADSHEET_FILE_ID = '1oQn6OLMzys8tVk1FLriOAmpzFJNazLRP-SwM7--eA58';
var folderId = "0B9TN_-yt-h0WZ0dnWndGWkw3UkE";
var SPREADSHEET_FILE_ID is expecting an spreadsheet ID like "1386834576" where as you provided "1oQn6OLMzys8tVk1FLriOAmpzFJNazLRP-SwM7--eA58", which is wrong. I think you got that from something like "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BqxyEG8RhtlM3MNuSbln6C1L1GLl3axdiSEijcwB5gY/edit" that's why it's asking you "doc" is not defined.
I am displaying a User Interface over a sheet using showModalDialog passing in the app I just created. I also setup a button with a server handler. When server handler function is called I try to get the app again using "UiApp.getActiveApplication()" to hide some elements and show some different elements, however, the changes are not reflected. At the end of the method I tried to close the app, and show a new modal dialog, I tried to return the app, I tried to do nothing, and nothing seems to work.
I can't post my whole code since it is very long, so I made a very simple version that gets the point across. When I put some logging statements in testHandler() it proves that the code is running.
function test() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication().setHeight(700).setWidth(1500);
var label = app.createLabel("Hi").setId("label");
var label2 = app.createLabel("GoodBye").setId("label2").setVisible(false);
var button = app.createButton("Press Me").setId("button");
app.add(label);
app.add(label2);
app.add(button);
var testHandler = app.createServerHandler('testHandler');
testHandler.addCallbackElement(label);
testHandler.addCallbackElement(label2);
button.addClickHandler(testHandler);
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(app, 'Test');
}
function testHandler() {
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
app.getElementById('label').setVisible(false);
app.getElementById('label2').setVisible(true);
// Not sure what to do now
}
Thank you in advance for your help
return app; //where you are not sure what do do