Google Add-on: Bulk Rename Files/Folders update November 2023

What it does

Bulk rename Google Drive™ files/folders quickly and easily with this Add-on. You define exactly what you want to search for in the file/folder name and the text to replace it with. Along with options for handling special characters and append/prepend to the existing file/folder name. Works across My/Shared drives.

Update

• Regular Expressions
• New regular expressions options now available - create your own powerful search queries to target exactly what you want.
  
  
• Upper / Lower Case
• New upper/lower case options now available.

 

Find out more

Bulk Rename Files Add-on webpage - includes instructions and demo videos.

Control Form submissions with Script Lock

The following Google Apps Script is a one example of how the Lock Service can be used to prevent concurrent running of code. Here we have a Google Form that can be submitted by users at any point, the code then takes some of those details and appends them to another Google Sheet row. In normal circumstances this will happen relatively quickly and without clashes, but what if multiple people submit the Form at the same time!?

The likelihood is that whilst the Form data will still be collected correctly in the response sheet, the append Sheet will either overwrite data as it tries to keep up or miss it completely. By using the Lock Service we can allow each Form submission time to complete its bit of code before the next one starts.

Lock Service code snippet

Format and tidy a Google Sheet report

The following Google Apps Script is designed to take a Microsoft Excel file, convert it to a Google Sheet, remove unnecessary data/columns/rows, add some nice formatting and concatenation to create email addresses. The purpose of this is to show you some nice and easy ways of working with spreadsheet data, as well as creating something that will become a time-saver if you regularly do this manually.

Use Google Apps Script to easily format a Report

Google Add-on: Bulk Rename Files update September 2023

What it does

Bulk rename Google Drive files quickly and easily with this Add-on. You define exactly what you want to search for in the file name and the text to replace it with. Along with options for handling special characters and append/prepend to the existing file name. Works across My/Shared drives.

Update

• Bulk rename folders
• A new tickbox feature has been added to now allow you to rename folders.

 

Find out more

Bulk Rename Files Add-on webpage - includes instructions and demo videos.

Autofill Google Sheet Formula each day

The following Google Apps Script is designed to check a Google Sheet once per day and if the date is in the past it Autofills another row with the existing formulas used across the columns. This post is a variation of the Autofill Google Sheet Formula one.

Autofill Google Sheet formulas each day

Sort through an array of duplicates with Sets

The following JavaScript code is a quick and easy alternative to sorting through an array of duplicates. It was highlighted to me by my colleague Tom Smith. As before it is designed to go through an array of values that contains duplicates and create a new array of only the unique ones, but not arranged alphabetically in this instance.

Sort an array with JavaScript Sets

Bulk create Drive folders with subfolders

The following Google Apps Script is designed to bulk create Google Drive folders with multiple subfolders. You control the naming convention of each folder and exactly how many you want.

Use this tool to bulk create folders with subfolders

Bulk duplicate Google Drive files

The following Google Apps Script tool is designed to take a single Google Drive file e.g. a Doc / Sheet / Slide and make duplicates/copies of it with unique file names. The tool will also create a clickable link within the Google Sheet to each new file copy.

Screenshot of the tool for duplicating Drive files