March 2014
Beginner to intermediate
216 pages
4h 59m
English
Content preview from Google Apps Script, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 1. First Steps in Google Apps Script
What is Google Apps Script and why should you use it to build applications? Simply put, Google Apps Script is an easy way to figuratively glue Google and other web services together to form one powerful, interactive web application. Just ahead, you’ll get a more in-depth explanation of Google Apps Script and how to use it to enhance existing Google Apps. You will also learn the basics of building an application. This first chapter should get your feet firmly planted on the ground floor of the Google Apps Script development platform and demystify its usage.
Google Apps Script Is…
Google Apps Script is a coding and application development platform built into Google Apps, enabling you to add functionality to spreadsheets, Gmail, Sites, and other services from Google. For example, if your spreadsheet needs a menu item in the toolbar for creating a pivot table, you can write a Google Apps Script that adds it to the menu and performs the task. Google Apps Scripts can be created as standalone files in Drive, inside a document or spreadsheet (these are known as container-bound), or in a Google Site.
This book will focus extensively on the concept of using Google Apps Script to build applications that present themselves as web services running independently of other interfaces. You will learn how to use Google Apps Script to build apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site; from the user’s perspective, they ...
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