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Google Apps Script for Beginners

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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

Creating and maintaining sites with Google Apps Script


As mentioned earlier, script gadgets are only a small part of Google Sites; the interesting feature of Apps Script in Google Sites is its ability to create and modify the site itself with a script.

Imagine you have a site for your restaurant and that you publish a new menu every day that follows a predefined scenario: pasta on Monday, beef on Tuesday, and so on. You would normally edit your menu page at the end of the day so that it is updated every morning with the right menu. This is a typical example of an annoying repetitive task that a script could easily do for you.

Create all of the daily menu's contents in some document, maybe a spreadsheet. For example, take the time to create a nice-looking template in a Google document and write a script that will update the site automatically every night based on the template and the spreadsheet data.

This might seem hard to do, but we'll use methods that we've already tried and proceed step...

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