Google Script : Adding Functionality to Your Google Apps

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferreira, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Google Apps.

Google apps.

Google.

Internet searching.

Web search engines.

Local Subjects:

Google apps.

Google.

Internet searching.

Web search engines.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol : O'Reilly Media, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization's needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform-with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You'll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site. If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions,

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Who Should Read This Book; What You Will Need; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Part I. Understanding Google Script; Chapter 1. First Steps in Google Script; Google Script Is...; What You Will Get From This Book; Getting Started; Looking Around the Editor; Three Ways to Create a UI; Hello UiApp Spreadsheet Integrated; Diving into the code; Integrated Versus Standalone; Creating a Standalone UI; Publishing a script; Making Google Sites Interactive; Using the GUI Builder; Up and Walking

Chapter 2. Setting Up Your Development EnvironmentHow to Debug and Test; Handling Errors and Breaks; Break and Report; Production Error Logging; Wrapping Up; Chapter 3. Building an Interface; What's in a UI?; It Starts with doGet(); Contact Me; Using the GUI Builder; Handcoding a GUI; Chapter 4. Adding Actions; Handling a Handler; Anatomy of a Handler; The Concept of the Callback; Functions Are Where the Action Happens; Verifying the Input; Storing the Values; Store in a Spreadsheet; Setting Up the Spreadsheet; Setting Up the Data; Part II. Building Enterprise Applications

Chapter 5. Dynamic Details Using CSSFighting Clutter; What You Will Learn; Supplies; Application Overview; Image File Repository; Setting Up the Database; Loading the Database; Creating Pages from a Spreadsheet; Using the Public Google Script Objects Class; Installing an Open Source Library; Create Pages and Fill the Spreadsheet; Creating the Products UI; Displaying Products; Get the Products; Load the UI; Adding Action; Build the Information Panel; Styled with CSS; Delivering the Application; Chapter 6. Automate Your Forms and Templates; What You Will Learn; Supplies; Application Overview

Setting Up the TemplateBuilding the Script; UI Setup; Adding Helpers; Getting the Keys; Generating the Form; Copy the Template and Add Responses; Delivery Options; Chapter 7. Collecting Data; The Installed App Has Died; What You Will Learn; Supplies; Application Overview; Setting Up; Building the Foundation; Main Panel; Headers Grid; Brand It; Loading the Search Component; Controls Component; Content Area; Search View; Creating the Data Store; Importing Public Classes; Getting Data from a Fusion Table; Loading the Data in the UI; Adding Client Side Handlers; Viewing a Record

Fetch the Correct RecordCustom Formatting; Formatting a listBox; Edit a Record; Save Changes; Insert a New Record; Deleting a Record; Chapter 8. Workflows; Building a Modern Email Workflow; What You Will Learn; Supplies; Application Overview; Using a Namespace; Building the UI; Application Layout; Entering the Application; Creating a New Workflow; Loading Workflows; Displaying the Workflow Details; Accessing Google Documents; Documents functions; Making Steps; Steps form; Loading the steps; Saving the Workflow; Notification System; Chapter 9. Mash Up; Directing Email Using Google Forms

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ISBN:

9781449325282

1449325289

OCLC:

775873022