Cargando…
Google Apps Script for beginners : customize Google Apps using Apps Script and explore its powerful features /
This book is a simple step-by-step, example-oriented guide with a focus on providing the practical skills necessary to develop and customize apps with Apps Script. If you are an application developer with no knowledge of App Script, and would like to learn to build apps using Google Apps script from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Birmingham, UK :
Packt Pub.,
2014.
|
| Colección: | Community experience distilled.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Enhancing Spreadsheets; Spreadsheet functions versus Google Apps Script
- how to choose?; An example; The spreadsheet-formula approach; The Google Apps Script approach
- a few comments; The Google Apps Script approach
- the code; Using the development environment
- the script editor; The advantages of autocompletion; Reading the documentation; Custom spreadsheet functions; Formatting your spreadsheets automatically; Menus and custom buttons in spreadsheets
- Reading and writing data from spreadsheets
- best practices and performancesExample; Catching events; Who is doing what? Script authorizations; Protecting your data; Publishing your data on the Web; Printing and exporting the result; Summary; Chapter 2: Create and Manipulate Forms; What tools do we have?; Forms' limitations; Handling answers; Forms' alternatives; A quick peek at the UiApp and HTML services; Summary; Chapter 3: Managing an E-mail Account; Retrieving Gmail data; Creating labels; Counting, sorting, archiving, and deleting e-mails and threads; Execution time versus time limit
- Creating e-mail messagesAutomating a complete workflow; Summary; Chapter 4: Embedding Script in Text Documents; What can be done; Generating a Google document from spreadsheet data using a script; Analyzing, duplicating, and modifying document elements; Using a script to insert an image into a document; Compiling and presenting data from other services; Summary; Chapter 5: Embedding Scripts in Google Sites; Site gadget's limitations/restrictions/use cases; Creating and maintaining sites with GAS; Creating pages; Interactivity; Summary; Chapter 6: Standalone Web Applications / User Interfaces
- UI or not UI, that's the questionCommon concepts to all web apps; Building an efficient UI; Building a good-looking UI; Building an amazing UI; Limiting user access; Protecting your data (and your script); Summary; Chapter 7: Using User Interfaces in Spreadsheets and Documents; Pop ups; Sidebars; Summary; Chapter 8: How to Expand your Knowledge; JavaScript versus Google Apps Script; Infinite resources; Being a newbie is, by definition, temporary; Try to find your own best learning method; Summary; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Development perspectives; Google's secrets; Personal point of view; Index