Google Apps Script for Beginners

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 ...