I've checked this issue and now I know (with getHtmlContent and setHtmlContent) how to create a webapp that :
a) takes into account the active user id
b) selects accordingly the right spreadsheet to be displaid
c) adapts a Google site page with the selected spreadsheet
But my problem is that I want to dynamically adapt the page when the user clicks the link to it (from navigation area). How can I trigger my webapp ?
Thanks for the help !
I don't think it is possible to invoke scripts from links in the Navigation area. But it is definitely possible to invoke an Apps Script on a link in the content area of a Google Sites page.
You can consider invoking your script from such a link
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I've got a Google Sheet that contains numerous hyperlinks.
I'd like to prevent the user from opening multiple instances of the same site.
ie. user clicks the hyperlink in one cell which opens the linked site in a new tab, then attempts to click the same hyperlink while the first new tab is still open - I'd like a dialogue box to appear saying that they cannot open this second new tab until they have closed the first one.
Is this possible via Google App Script?
Many thanks!
Unfortunately not. GAS has no access to your browser data and cannot know what tabs are open.Moreover, GAS has no way of intercepting hyperlink clicks from within a spreadsheet, it can only do that in a side bar, modal (or modeless) dialog, a custom or an add-on menu or an image with a script attached to it.
I want to display an editable Google Sheet on a web page.
No problem for that.
The problem: I want to display this sheet without the menus, columns and lines. Is it possible ?
Or display the sheet in full screen mode, but I do not know the javascript function to execute when opening the sheet.
Ex.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwheykkZMb806JKNoPGcVl17TpIm4Z9LTLJb8HAhVVk/edit?usp=sharing
How to do ?
Thank you
Go to File > Publish to the Web.
And then, you will see this kind of pop up. You can publish it and also get the link. Google Slide and Docs also have this feature. As you can see it, you can also get embed tag for inserting it in HTML. You can stop publishing with the Stop publishing button whenever you want.
And as far as I know, there is no such thing that you can edit the file with that mode.
I am trying to embed a Google Spreadsheet that has a script I'd like users to be able to activate. I don't want them to be able to edit anything on the page.
I thought I could do this by
Share sheet and set to edit permissions
Restrict editing on the one sheet I want to share (the images sit above the cells, so I thought this would prevent people from editing cells but allow them to click on the button
Publish to the web
Embed the sheet
Here is the iframe I used:
<iframe width="1250" height=1000 src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRRajy1TK9Y9YQg-Df3bwTy9ktxPECq6T5gS7UfkrYpV_osxwDwRuQClC168B8-o4KsCdFl4kfMYtau/pubhtml?gid=1796260078&single=true&widget=true&headers=false"></iframe>
For context the scripts hide or show different rows. Clicking "show game 2" hides a section of rows and "show game 1" unhides these rows.
The sheet embeds okay but isn't interactable. I have turned off the restricted editing to test (it's back on) and that didn't allow people to edit anything, so I am not sure what I am doing wrong here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers!
Workaround:
Use a another button outside the embedded spreadsheet instead.
Publish a headless web-app from your sheet using doPost()
On Button click, use JavaScript to post from your website to apps script web-app
On receiving post request, hide/show the rows using your original script.
References:
Web-app
I am trying to write a simple add-on for Google Docs. It basically a list of items I want to have visible on the side when I am using Docs. I followed this simple tutorial.
I don't want to publish such a simple add-on unnecessarily. Is there a way that I could use it just within my Google Docs without publishing it ?
If you've just copied the sample code into your document's script, it already works there. To activate the script you have to reopen the document, then in the menus at the top click Custom Menu -> Show sidebar.
You only have to publish a script if you want to share your add-on with other users.
If you still have problems, take a look at Add-on Quickstart. It describes add-on creation process in details.
I followed the tutorial at google developer web site to create a spreadsheet. And as expected when I reloaded the spreadsheet, a menu called "Bracket Maker" is now available on the menu bar.
But if I share this document to my friends, they can open this document, see all the content in the document. But they just don't have the "Bracket Maker" menu bar. How should I do to make sure they also get the script capability?
The menu is created when the onOpen is triggered.
How are you creating the menu - using the onOpen function or an installed trigger ?
If you created it using an installable trigger, then your friends have to set up the trigger manually.