I've am new to Google App Script. I have a spreadsheet that has various fields. I need to create a text box that displays the results from a particular field as I type the characters in the text box. I can do this like type the text and then hit a button and then display the results or the rowindex. But what I need is to an instant result showing up in a drop down box. Thanks. Any information would be helpful.
This is a good application to use HtmlService with jQuery-UI. Take a look at Populate jQuery autocomplete list using value array from Google Spreadsheet for an example that does just what you're describing.
See also this library that uses UiApp only
https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/learn-by-example/uiapp-examples-code-snippets/suggest-box
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I am developing google calendar add-on using CardService, Is there any method available for adding password input box in calendar add-on using apps script.
For other google services, It can be added using HTML Service and by using SpreadsheetApp.getUi() like method, for calendar .getUi() does not seem to be available.
Does anyone have an idea about this? Thanks in advance.
No, between the methods supported for the Card Service class there's no way to create a password input, the most similar one would be the TextInput class.
Workaround 1:
Use a TextButton to open a link in another window where you could have an application with the password input (e.g a link to a Web App).
Workaround 2:
Using an onChangeAction from the TextInput to manipulate the value from the text input and return the card element again to the user (as explained in this answer). This would involve having to store the updated value from the text input, using the Properties Service for example, and changing the value of the text input to the same number of character the user has typed but replacing the characters with '*'.
Is it possible to get the selected text in a cell as shown below. I think the answer is no and I can't find any commands related to selections of this type in Google Apps Script for spreadsheets.
We can select ranges of cells but I can't find any Google Apps Script commands that deal with selections within the cell even though it is possible to make these selections via menu commands and even make changes like text style and text color to partial selections of cell text.
It is interesting to note however that it is possible to capture a partial selection of text in a table cell in Google Docs with Google Apps Script for Google Docs with the following command:
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection()
Here's an example of such a selection in the following image.
So I'm just curious if anyone can provide me with a link in the documentation that can shine some light on this question. Thanks
I am currently developing a program in Google Script that works with Google Sheets. I've created a tab that serves as the UI and have multiple tabs for each data type to store the data.
When I first started, I originally reserved some cells on the UI tab that I used as the inputs for creating a parent-child relationship instance. To do this, I directly set validation on each of the cells and used the "List from a range" Criteria to provide the drop-down list to provide the options to select from.
Now, I am trying to move this input off of the cells in the UI tab and into the sidebar. I am now using HTML Service and am creating a form to handle this functionality. However, I can't figure out where to get started to provide the same drop-down functionality for each of the text inputs in the form as I had when I used the cell validation.
Does anyone know what syntax is used to do this?
Thank you,
Nicholas Kincaid
jQuery auto-complete combo-box is what will take care of this => jqueryui.com/resources/demos/autocomplete/combobox.html
We are in implementing a search box for searching comments in Google sites with the help of Google Apps Scripts, which is stored in the scriptdb.
In the UI side now we implemented a textbox and a listbox below that to list the suggestions from the scriptdb, It works as shown in the below img.
And now i'm trying to make the typed string to bold in the listbox below to give some more flexibility to user to find where the exact string is in the suggestion box. Like in the below image.
And In a listbox control, We can set styleAttribute to make bold or change font color for the added item.
Ex:
app.createListBox().addItem("SELECT").setStyleAttribute("color","red");
The above statement will set the style attribute for all the list box items.
But How to set style attribute for a particular character in the added item
listbox.addItem("HELLO world")
The issue is to set style attribute for only the upper case letter of the above addItem in the list box.
It ll be more useful and reduce the developers complexity in the Google Apps Script.
And also I raised this as enhancement in the issue tracker in issue 2293.
If is there any more work around, Pls suggest here. It ll be helpful for everyone, who is in need of this feature.
Tnx,
Chocka.
There is no workaround in UiService. You can use HtmlService which allows custome HTML and javascript code
I had created a custom search engine on Google but the problem is that it gives you a Text-field having Google logo etc.I want to have my own text field at my site and when i click on search the it calls the Google custom search Engine but there should be no Google predefined text field there.Please tell me how can i do that
I believe if you want to remove the logo you have to pay for the search engine.
you need to call Google Search API with your arguments that will return you JSON response.
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/docs/start.html
Hope this will help you