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Google Apps Script for Beginners

You're reading from  Google Apps Script for Beginners

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783552177
Pages 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Serge Gabet Serge Gabet
Profile icon Serge Gabet

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Google Apps Script for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Enhancing Spreadsheets 2. Create and Manipulate Forms 3. Managing an E-mail Account 4. Embedding Scripts in Text Documents 5. Embedding Scripts in Google Sites 6. Standalone Web Applications / User Interfaces 7. Using User Interfaces in Spreadsheets and Documents 8. How to Expand your Knowledge 9. Conclusion Index

Compiling and presenting data from other services


In the example we used to create a document, we were getting data from a spreadsheet; but, of course, you can get data from any other Google service and, although it is not as simple, any other data server on the Internet. This is one of the major advantages of the document creation mode that Google has implemented in this service.

Just about anything that contains text can be imported and presented in a Google document along with images, drawings, and even math formulas. The preceding example showed how to insert an image stored in our drive; the next one will get text from our personal calendar.

Calendar, contact, spreadsheets, and forms are really easy to get data from in a way that fits pretty well in a text document, because every property can be obtained as a string. It is only a matter of imagination and creativity on your part to concatenate everything in a pleasant way.

The following is a very basic example of a script that gets events...

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