Google Apps Script for Beginners

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user inputs, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "As you can notice, we use #name# to mark the placeholders."

A block of code is set as follows:

var docCopy = DriveApp.getFileById(sharedDocID).makeCopy('menu['+headers[todayInSheet]+']');
  menuFolder.addFile(docCopy);
  DriveApp.getRootFolder().removeFile(docCopy);

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

function myAgeInHours(){ ...