Just need to clarify something and ask for a reference.
App Script Execute within the spreadsheet works fine with all the example.
but.
when appscript is deployed as webapp using scriptEditor -> publish -> Deploy as Webapp
most of the code in appscript is not working.
ex: using script editor create a form using builder create a doGet() function and show the form bind some function to button?
can anyone point me to a reference like opening the spreadsheet where the form is within and manipulating cell values.
can you please give me information where can i get reference for scripting on forms as webapps.
Thanks
The main difference between these 2 modes when accessing a spreadsheet is that the web app does not know the spreadsheet it is linked to unless you tell it explicitly, there is no such thing as 'active spreadsheet' or 'active sheet'.
So you should open the spreadsheet by ID (openById('long ID number') and choose the sheet by its name or index.
The other point, but I guess this one you'll find it obvious, is that UI functions attached to spreadsheet must end by "var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();doc.show(app);" and web apps only by "return".
There are many examples on the web, some are available on Google Developpers or also here , hope you'll find some interesting ideas.
There are few more difference you might get in webapp like when you use it u might not able to use some classes that are limited to appscript only like: when you creating a page u cannot use Logger.log() instead you can use console.log() and see logs by inspect element > console > bottom.
web app allow us to use html, css, javascript to build web pages
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I have a fairly simple requirement for a Google sheets apps macro script - it basically pulls the values from a couple of cells in another sheet and displays them in an alert box.
I've done the macro for this and it works fine. What I now want is for anyone I've shared the sheet with to be able to run the same macro. This is where things have suddenly got a bit more involved! My questions are:
Is this possible? And if so, what's the best way of achieveing it? At the moment, the macro is not available for the test user I've shared the sheet with. I've had a bit of a look around and it seems like publishing the script as a web app may be the way to go - can anyone confirm if that is correct? Or would there be a better option? I don't know anything about web apps so just want to confirm if this is the best option before trying to wrap my head around it all.
If the sheet in question has been shared with a user, but the second sheet which the script pulls data from has not, is it still possible for the user to run the script and retrieve the data? Or would the second sheet need to be shared with that same user as well? (If it would then it kinda defeats the object of what I'm trying to achieve).
Finally, would the user with whom the sheet is shared have to have a Google account in order to do this? I'm assuming so...which is a bit of a pain, but I guess understandable.
Thanks very much
Wokaround
Following the requirements you have described I get that you want your users to trigger an Apps Script function that will alter or get data from your Spreadsheet while only granting your users viewer-only acccess.
As described here only users with editor level access can run functions on your bounded script or activate it when clicking a button in your Spreadsheet.
To overcome this you can create a simple web app with a button that will trigger your function. Users will have to access this web app to trigger the function. The good point is that they will not have editor level access to the Spreadsheet nor to the actual script of the web app (as they will just interact with its user interface).
The web app would be a different script that can interface any of your Spreadsheets editing them or getting any information from them.
I've created a small electron app that shows data from a google sheet via sheetrock.js to display table data. I've added a form that submits data to the google sheet with the help of triblondon's git
Now I'm trying to Implement a simple button on the electron app that will move populated rows from one sheet to another, creating a history. But for the life of me, I can't find a method of doing so that doesn't involve sending json data like the method above, writing to a cell and just doing formulas from there.
I'm just looking for a simpler, more direct approach by just invoking a function on the google script side (button + javascript probably).
Thanks for any help you can provide.
You can deploy your script as apps script. You will have use the public URL to be triggered by your button.
You can check everything about it on the Web Apps documentation.
I have created a macro with appscript for google sheets and I want to share it with other users so that they can use it in their sheets.
I have no idea on how to do that. I see that I can share the google script. Is it the best way? Will that ensure that opthers can import this macro in their sheets?
You can share the Spreadsheet directly with another user (needs to have edit permissions), that will give them access to the script (macros are stored as scripts). So a user with access to that same Sheet will have access to the macro you made.
If you want to only share the macros (in a way that can be reused in several separate Spreadsheets), you can build it into a library. To do this, you can take a look at this post which explains how to do just this.
Best method for me was to publish the script as webapp, so that others can use it directly.
On the webapp : https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web
Video on how to make simple webapp : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQvySxaCW0
I have been searching for a solution to a Sheet Protection issue, I have a Sheet that includes automated scripts to write data into the Sheet below from some fields at the top. I want the user to be able to provide the data in the fields at the top and then to run a script that adds the data below. The script to add the data works fine for the owner of the sheet if Protection is enabled, but fails for any user that has Edit rights as the Protection cannot be cleared by script for the data to be written to the bottom of the sheet.
https://developers.googleblog.com/2015/02/control-protected-ranges-and-sheets-in.html
I found this code from a Google blog post a few years ago and have tried variations without success....is this type of approach just not possible with Google Sheets and Google Script ?
Unfortunately, that is not currently possible to run a bound script as the owner without using a workaround. Scripts can only be run as the owner when they use Triggers or when you make a standalone Script Web App. You can see this for more information.
This should bypass fooling around with scripting protection ranges!
The Workaround!
There is a way you can get around this by creating a web app so that your bound script talks to the web app which runs on the spreadsheet. See this answer for more information.
So the process looks like this: User clicks a button that runs a function on a bound script. This function makes a web call to a web app that can run a function as the person who created the script.
I would also recommend you pay attention to a comment by Augustine C:
...you may also find it helpful to have a shared secret key saved in your spreadsheet and then verify it using the backend webapp script, or to perhaps verify that the recipient of the email is, in fact, also an editor of your Google Sheet.
I'm creating a spellchecker using the Google Docs API in an Apps Script (just a script that extends the functionality of a Google Doc), and I wan't to make this service available to users whom download it as a Web App. Problem is that when I've made my (Container-bound) script in the script editor, it is only available in the Google Document through which I created it - that is, if i open a new document, I cannot use the script.
If I "Deploy as Web App", make it available to everyone and paste the given URL, I get an error message saying that the script needs a function called doGet(), which is not in my script.
How do I go about to publish my script as a regular web app?
I would proceed by creating two scripts:
the core functionality would be deployed as a Web App and a simple container-bound script would offer an interface to call the Web App.
Since the Web App is not bound to a document you may want to follow this scheme:
function doGet(e){
if(e.parameter.docId){
doStuff(DocumentApp.openById(e.parameter.docId));
}
}
Now when you deploy the app you will get a link that gives you access to the functionality.
From the container-bound script you can add some UI (e.g. an Anchor element in a side-panel) that links to the web app with the appropriate parameters
ScriptApp.getService().getUrl() + "?docId=" + DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getId()
or use UrlFetchApp to get the results and display them in the UI.
Unfortunately this is not the same as adding the functionality across all your documents automatically, but rather a way to install only a relatively lightweight hook in each document where you want to add the functionality, instead of the full script.
I am not aware of any method that can achieve that. Note that when you make a copy of a document, the copy will contain all its scripts so you can create a template for documents that need the additional functionality. This can get ackward though if you wish to mix and match multiple scripts.
The advantage of my method is that if you modify the core functionality, the change is immediately available to all your documents making use of it, with no need to update their scripts. On the other hand if the container-script needs to interact heavily with the UI it may get complicate and reduce the usefulness of separating it in two scripts.
The answer is in your question : the main function of your script (the one that builds the UI) must be called doGet() (this is the conventional entry point of any GAS webapp, the function that you implicitly call when opening the webapp url)... but I'm afraid this will not solve your problem...
Even if I don't know what is in your script and how you wrote it I guess that it refers to the doc in which you bound it as the "active document" and that will probably be the most important issue since a webapp has no document attached to it.
Beside that, how would a spell checker work as a standalone app ? could you explain more clearly what you want to do ?