The following Google Apps Script is designed to insert a formula into the first row of data in a Google Sheet, then use Autofill to add the formula to the subsequent rows below. In this example I am just using a simple Sum formula to add up age and shoesize for demo purposes. The need to do this came about when combining multiple Google Sheet files however, that needed calculations adding to the final composed version.
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| Autofill Google Sheet Formula |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to reposition 2 columns within a Google Sheet. It is a small and simple bit of code but it was something new to me when I was collating lots of files together and appending columns at the end - which then needed to be moved.
In this example I am moving columns 'collegename' (E) and 'shoesize' (F) to the left of 'postcode' (D). So that 'postcode' will be the final column (F).
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| Move columns in a Google Sheet |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to remove a person's edit access from a Google Drive file via a Web App. The reason for using a Web App in this instance is because removing a person's access to a file whilst they are running Apps Script code typically results in an error (or most certainly the inability to cleanly end the code). In the project I was working on prior to this step the code needs to send some automated emails before finishing with removing the person's access.
This is achieved by some Apps Script code in the Google Sheet we want to remove access to (as this is a template file copied each time somebody completes a Google Form) that creates some hyperlink text to send the Sheet ID to the Web App when the user clicks it. The Web App itself extracts this ID, gets the person's email address from their connected session with the Web App and then executes as an admin account (or basically an account that retains access to the Google Sheet - as it will be filed away somewhere in Google Drive).
All of the complicated extras and fancy formatting has been stripped away from this solution so it focuses on the simple task of connecting with a Web App and removing access, to help make it clearer.
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| Web App code sample |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to iterate through a Google Drive folder of files and convert only the Microsoft Excel ones into individual Google Sheet files. The code is an upgrade of this original blog post to bulk convert Excel files to Google Sheet files.
We use the method 'getMimeType()' in order to be able to iterate through all of the files and distinguish between them, so we do not try to convert anything other than Microsoft Excel, which would likely result in an error.
The following Google Apps Script was from some learning around multiple ranges being selected/highlighted by a user in a Google Sheet. I have always worked with individual cells or continuous ranges within Sheets, but during the development of my Archive Sheet data Add-on I wanted to enhance it by allowing more rows to be acted upon in one go.
I practiced getting a few values after looping through each selected range:
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| Selected ranges in a Google Sheet |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to iterate through a Google Drive folder of Microsoft Excel files and convert them all to individual Google Sheet files. It does not technically check a file is Excel only (eg you may have a Word document in there), but it is recommended to only try from Excel to Google Sheets otherwise the data may be unreadable.
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| Bulk convert Excel files to Google Sheets |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to periodically check for any changes that have occurred to a given Google Drive file (ie edits to it) and send an email to notify of that. It goes through the Revision (Version History) of the file and looks at the modification dates for those that match with your given timeframe, to then collect the Username & Email address of the person that made those edits for inclusion in the email.
So as an example you may have a Google Sheet where you want to setup a check every 4 hours, to then be emailed if there have been any edits to it, along with who made those edits.
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| Email notification of Drive file changes |
The following Google Apps Script is designed to search through one level of Google Drive folders and extract the following information into a Google Sheet:
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| Enter the Parent folder ID and search the folders within |
