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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

Creating pages


The previous example actually doesn't have many SiteApp service methods as it again makes use of a combination of sites, documents, and spreadsheets, which is one of the major interests of the Google platform. Google services are always available and tend to exchange data to and from each other (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/sites).

We could have got almost the same result using a different approach and using only SiteApp methods.

In that workflow, we'll need to create a second website with restricted access rights in which we are going to create seven pages, one for each day of the week, with a menu description on each page.

In this case, we could have a different layout for each day, such as varying font styles and background images.

From there on, the only thing we have to do is copy the appropriate page to our public website every day, just like we did in the first example.

This can easily be achieved using the template feature in SiteApp. Each page will...

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