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Google Docs Apps Script getBackgroundColor(Offset)

Let's say I have some sentences in Google Docs. Just one sentences as an example:
"My house is on fire"
I actually changed the background color so that every verb is red and every noun blue.
Now I want to make a list with all the verbs and another one with the nouns. Unfortunately getBackgroundColor() only seems to work with paragraphs and not with single words.
My idea was, to do something like this (I didn't yet have the time to think about how to do the loop, but that's not the point here anyway):
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
var colorVar = paragraphs[0].getText().match(/\w+/).getBackgroundColor(); // The regEx matches the first word. Next I want to get the background color.
Logger.log(colorVar);
}
The error message I get goes something like this:
"The function getBackgroundColor in the text object couldn't be found"
Thx for any help, or hints or comments!

You want to retrieve the text from a paragraph.
You want to retrieve each word and the background color of each word from the retrieved the text.
In this case, the color is the background color which is not getForegroundColor().
You want to achieve this using Google Apps Script.
If my understanding is correct, how about this answer? Please think of this as just one of several possible answers.
At first, the reason of your error is that getBackgroundColor() is the method of Class Text. In your script, getBackgroundColor() is used for the string value. By this, the error occurs.
In this answer, for achieving your goal, each character of the text retrieved from the paragraph is scanned, and each word and the background color of each word can be retrieved.
Sample script:
function myFunction() {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var body = doc.getBody();
var paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
var textObj = paragraphs[0].editAsText();
var text = textObj.getText();
var res = [];
var temp = "";
for (var i = 0; i < text.length; i++) {
var c = text[i];
if (c != " ") {
temp += c;
} else {
if (temp != "") res.push({text: temp, color: textObj.getBackgroundColor(i - 1)});
temp = "";
}
}
Logger.log(res) // result
}
When you run the script, the text of 1st paragraph is parsed. And you can see the result with res as an object.
In this sample script, the 1st paragraph is used as a test case. So if you want to retrieve the value from other paragraph, please modify the script.
References:
getBackgroundColor()
getBackgroundColor(offset)
editAsText()
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the direction you want, I apologize.

Here's a script your welcome to take a look at. It highlights text that a user selects...even individual letters. I did it several years ago just to learn more about how documents work.
function highLightCurrentSelection() {
var conclusionStyle = {};
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.BACKGROUND_COLOR]='#ffffff';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FOREGROUND_COLOR]='#000000';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY]='Calibri';
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE]=20;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.BOLD]=false;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT]=DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.LEFT;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.VERTICAL_ALIGNMENT]=DocumentApp.VerticalAlignment.BOTTOM;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING]=1.5;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.HEIGHT]=2;
conclusionStyle[DocumentApp.Attribute.LEFT_TO_RIGHT]=true;
var br = '<br />';
var selection = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();
var s='';
if(selection) {
s+=br + '<strong>Elements in Current Selection</strong>';
var selectedElements = selection.getRangeElements();
for(var i=0;i<selectedElements.length;i++) {
var selElem = selectedElements[i];
var el = selElem.getElement();
var isPartial = selElem.isPartial();
if(isPartial) {
var selStart = selElem.getStartOffset();
var selEnd = selElem.getEndOffsetInclusive();
s+=br + 'isPartial:true selStart=' + selStart + ' selEnd=' + selEnd ;
var bgcolor = (el.asText().getBackgroundColor(selStart)=='#ffff00')?'#ffffff':'#ffff00';
el.asText().setBackgroundColor(selStart, selEnd, bgcolor)
}else {
var selStart = selElem.getStartOffset();
var selEnd = selElem.getEndOffsetInclusive();
s+=br + 'isPartial:false selStart=' + selStart + ' selEnd=' + selEnd ;
var bgcolor = (el.asText().getBackgroundColor()=='#ffff00')?'#ffffff':'#ffff00';
el.asText().setBackgroundColor(bgcolor);
}
var elType=el.getType();
s+=br + 'selectedElement[' + i + '].getType()= ' + elType;
if(elType==DocumentApp.ElementType.TEXT) {
var txt = selElem.getElement().asText().getText().slice(selStart,selEnd+1);
var elattrs = el.getAttributes();
if(elattrs)
{
s+=br + 'Type:<strong>TEXT</strong>';
s+=br + 'Text:<span style="color:#ff0000">' + txt + '</span>';
s+=br + 'Length: ' + txt.length;
s+=br + '<div id="sel' + Number(i) + '" style="display:none;">';
for(var key in elattrs)
{
s+= br + '<strong>' + key + '</strong>' + ' = ' + elattrs[key];
s+=br + '<input type="text" value="' + elattrs[key] + '" id="elattr' + key + Number(i) + '" />';
s+=br + '<input id="elattrbtn' + Number(i) + '" type="button" value="Save Changes" onClick="setSelectedElementAttribute(\'' + key + '\',' + i + ');" />'
}
s+='</div>Show/Hide';
}
}
if(elType==DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH) {
var txt = selElem.getElement().asParagraph().getText();
var elattrs = el.getAttributes();
if(elattrs)
{
s+=br + '<strong>PARAGRAPH Attributes</strong>';
s+=br + 'Text:<span style="color:#ff0000">' + txt + '</span> Text Length= ' + txt.length;
for(var key in elattrs)
{
s+= br + key + ' = ' + elattrs[key];
}
}
}
s+='<hr width="100%"/>';
}
//var finalP=DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().appendParagraph('Total Number of Elements: ' + Number(selectedElements.length));
//finalP.setAttributes(conclusionStyle);
}else {
s+= br + 'No Elements found in current selection';
}
s+='<input type="button" value="Toggle HighLight" onclick="google.script.run.highLightCurrentSelection();"/>';
//s+='<input type="button" value="Exit" onClick="google.script.host.close();" />';
DocumentApp.getUi().showSidebar(HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('htmlToBody').append(s).setWidth(800).setHeight(450).setTitle('Selected Elements'));
}

Proper JSON array interpretation through JavaScript

Currently able to filter through "teams" and say if it matches x then display everything associated with it. The problem is method searching through hard codes the team category names, but need it to be able to say instead programmatically, for each unique team type sort by that.
As you can see below my solution requires triple statements when it could be covered in just one single object oriented method.
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div id="teamtop"><span>Legal</span></div>');
for (i = 0; i < _data.length; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < _data[i].postings.length; j++) {
var posting = _data[i].postings[j]
var title = posting.text
var description = posting.description
//Making each job description shorter than 250 characters
var shortDescription = $.trim(description).substring(0, 250)
.replace('\n', ' ') + "...";
var location = nullCheck(posting.categories.location);
var locationCleanString = cleanString(location);
var commitment = nullCheck(posting.categories.commitment);
var commitmentCleanString = cleanString(commitment);
var team = nullCheck(posting.categories.team);
var teamCleanString = cleanString(team);
var link = posting.hostedUrl + leverParameter;
if (team == "Legal") {
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div class="job ' + teamCleanString + ' ' + locationCleanString + ' ' + commitmentCleanString + '">' +
'<a class="job-title" href="' + link + '"">' + title + '</a>' +
'</div>'
);
}
}
}
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div id="teamtop"><span>Engineering</span></div>');
for (i = 0; i < _data.length; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < _data[i].postings.length; j++) {
var posting = _data[i].postings[j]
var title = posting.text
var description = posting.description
//Making each job description shorter than 250 characters
var shortDescription = $.trim(description).substring(0, 250)
.replace('\n', ' ') + "...";
var location = nullCheck(posting.categories.location);
var locationCleanString = cleanString(location);
var commitment = nullCheck(posting.categories.commitment);
var commitmentCleanString = cleanString(commitment);
var team = nullCheck(posting.categories.team);
var teamCleanString = cleanString(team);
var link = posting.hostedUrl + leverParameter;
if (team == "Engineering") {
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div class="job ' + teamCleanString + ' ' + locationCleanString + ' ' + commitmentCleanString + '">' +
'<a class="job-title" href="' + link + '"">' + title + '</a>' +
'</div>'
);
}
}
}
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div id="teamtop"><span>Operations</span></div>');
for (i = 0; i < _data.length; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < _data[i].postings.length; j++) {
var posting = _data[i].postings[j]
var title = posting.text
var description = posting.description
//Making each job description shorter than 250 characters
var shortDescription = $.trim(description).substring(0, 250)
.replace('\n', ' ') + "...";
var location = nullCheck(posting.categories.location);
var locationCleanString = cleanString(location);
var commitment = nullCheck(posting.categories.commitment);
var commitmentCleanString = cleanString(commitment);
var team = nullCheck(posting.categories.team);
var teamCleanString = cleanString(team);
var link = posting.hostedUrl + leverParameter;
if (team == "Operations") {
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div class="job ' + teamCleanString + ' ' + locationCleanString + ' ' + commitmentCleanString + '">' +
'<a class="job-title" href="' + link + '"">' + title + '</a>' +
'</div>'
);
}
}
}
I have tried to do a for each around the team but am struggling to output properly:
for(i = 0; i < team.length; i++) {
alert ("output only teams once"+team);
}
I have attached more or less the visual concept that is trying to be achieved although the CSS styling is not necessary right now, more so focused on grouping the titles by teams.
So we are getting the correct out put such as
Legal
Corporate Associate
Corporate Paralegal
Junior Corporate Associate, Blockchain
Junior Corporate Associate, Emerging Growth
Legal Document Specialist
Regulatory & Compliance Counsel
But we are manually matching to legal, just want to filter through each team and see instead.
Vngeener answer repeats team each time, need it to only print out the team one time.

You do not really need to create "Teamtop" divs manually.
The for loop you have created should handle that.
And you do not need the duplicated for loop code for each team heading.
And in the loop "team" condition is not needed.
The way code is written, that's not utilizing the for-loop capability properly.
Try replacing your code with the code given below (Only once, do not repeat this code for multiple conditions):
var teamAdded = [];
for(i = 0; i < _data.length; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < _data[i].postings.length; j ++) {
var posting = _data[i].postings[j]
var title = posting.text
var description = posting.description
//Making each job description shorter than 250 characters
var shortDescription = $.trim(description).substring(0, 250)
.replace('\n', ' ') + "...";
var location = nullCheck(posting.categories.location);
var locationCleanString = cleanString(location);
var commitment = nullCheck(posting.categories.commitment);
var commitmentCleanString = cleanString(commitment);
var team = nullCheck(posting.categories.team);
var teamCleanString = cleanString(team);
var link = posting.hostedUrl+leverParameter;
//Add Team top heading dynamically
if (!teamAdded[team]){
$('#jobs-container .jobs-list').append(
'<div id="teamtop"><span>'+ team +'</span></div><div id="team-children" data-team="'+ team +'"></div>');
teamAdded[team] = true;
}
// team condition was not required here
// if(team=="Legal"){
$('[data-team="'+ team +'"]').append(
'<div class="job '+teamCleanString+' '+locationCleanString+' '+commitmentCleanString+'">' +
'<a class="job-title" href="'+link+'"">'+title+'</a>' +
'</div>'
);
}
}

Javascript onmousehover event to connect information

So in my code I created a table pulling from an XML file that displayed two columns of information about plants. The goal of my program is to be able to hover over the first and print out the other information about that plant and print it in another section to the right of my table. The issue is that I am not gettign any console errors and the hover affect is not printing any information.
window.addEventListener("load", link_events);
var xhr = false;
function link_events() {
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
if(xhr) {
xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", ShowFile);
xhr.open("GET", "plants.xml", true);
xhr.send();
} else {
alert("XHR not supported.");
}
}
function ShowFile() {
var i;
var title;
var cover;
var plant_table = "<table><tr><th>Common Name </th><th>Botanical Name </th></tr>";
if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
if (xhr.status == 200) {
//here we have gotten the file correctly
//loop through it and print out cover and title
var plantlist = xhr.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("PLANT");
//booklist is an array and each element is an object sub i
//so you have to use getElementBy something in order to pull the information
for (i = 0; i < plantlist.length; i++) {
var Common = plantlist[i].getElementsByTagName("COMMON")[0].firstChild.textContent;
var Botanical = plantlist[i].getElementsByTagName("BOTANICAL")[0].firstChild.textContent;
plant_table += "<tr>" +
"<td class =\"plant\">" + Common + "</td>" +
"<td>" + Botanical + "</td>" +
"</tr>";
}
plant_table += "</table>";
document.getElementById("outarea").innerHTML = plant_table;
}
var plants = document.getElementsByClassName("plant");
for (i=0; i < plants.length; i++) {
plants[i].onmouseover = HoverChoice;
}
}
function HoverChoice() {
var input = xhr.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("PLANT");
for (i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
Common = input[i].getElementsByTagName("COMMON")[0].firstChild.textContent;
var Zone = input[i].getElementsByTagName("ZONE")[0].firstChild.textContent;
var Light = input[i].getElementsByTagName("LIGHT")[0].firstChild.textContent;
var Price = input[i].getElementsByTagName("PRICE")[0].firstChild.textContent;
if (plants == this.innerHTML) {
document.getElementById("inarea").innerHTML =
"<h1>" + Common + "</h1>" + "<br />" + "<br />" +
"Zone: " + Zone + "<br />" +
"Light: " + Light + "<br />" +
"Price: " + Price;
}
}
}
}

you could try using addEventListener method instead and see whether it works?
plants.forEach(function(plant){
plant.addEventListener("onmouseover", HoverChoice);
});
or going with the original loop you made it would be
for (i=0; i < plants.length; i++)
{
plants[i].addEventListener("onmouseover", HoverChoice);
}
I'm not anything professional, a common problem I used to encounter in these kinds of event listening functions was that calling a global function sometimes fails but making the function on the spot inside the event listener would work like addEventListener("onmouseover" , function() { return 0; });

getting XMLHttpRequest cannot load (URL) Response for preflight is invalid (redirect)

here am trying to get reccurring events from calendar list for sharepoint Online app and there am using code as like
hostWebUrl = decodeURIComponent(manageQueryStringParameter('SPHostUrl'));
function GetListData() {
var webUrl = hostWebUrl;// = "http://server/sitewhereyourlistexists";
var listGuid = "{2000da75-8663-42d9-9999-ad855c54b4e0}"
// An XMLHttpRequest object is used to access the web service
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var url = webUrl + "/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx";
xhr.open("POST", url, true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
xhr.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/GetListItems");
// The message body consists of an XML document
// with SOAP elements corresponding to the GetListItems method parameters
// i.e. listName, query, and queryOptions
var data = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" +
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">" +
"<soap:Body>" +
"<GetListItems xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/\">" +
"<listName>" + listGuid + "</listName>" +
"<query>" +
"<Query><Where>" +
"<DateRangesOverlap>" +
"<FieldRef Name=\"EventDate\"/>" +
"<FieldRef Name=\"EndDate\"/>" +
"<FieldRef Name=\"RecurrenceID\"/>" +
"<Value Type=\"DateTime\"><Today/></Value>" +
"</DateRangesOverlap>" +
"</Where></Query>" +
"</query>" +
"<queryOptions>" +
"<QueryOptions>" +
"<ExpandRecurrence>TRUE</ExpandRecurrence>" +
"</QueryOptions>" +
"</queryOptions>" +
"</GetListItems>" +
"</soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>";
// Here we define what code we want to run upon successfully getting the results
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
if (xhr.status == 200) {
var doc = xhr.responseXML;
// grab all the "row" elements from the XML results
var rows = doc.getElementsByTagName("z:row");
var results = "Today's Schedule (" + rows.length + "):\n\n";
var events = {};
for (var i = 0, len = rows.length; i < len; i++) {
var id = rows[i].getAttribute("ows_FSObjType"); // prevent duplicates from appearing in results
if (!events[id]) {
events[id] = true;
var allDay = rows[i].getAttribute("ows_fAllDayEvent"),
title = rows[i].getAttribute("ows_Title"),
start = rows[i].getAttribute("ows_EventDate");
var index = start.indexOf(" ");
var date = start.substring(5, index) + "-" + start.substring(2, 4); // get the date in MM-dd-yyyy format
start = start.substring(index, index + 6); // get the start time in hh:mm format
var end = rows[i].getAttribute("ows_EndDate");
index = end.indexOf(" "); end = end.substring(index, index + 6); // get the end time in hh:mm format
results += date + " " + (allDay == "1" ? "All Day\t" : start + " to " + end) + " \t " + title + "\n";
}
}
alert(results);
} else {
alert("Error " + xhr.status);
}
}
};
// Finally, we actually kick off the query
xhr.send(data);
}
after calling this function in decument. ready section it is not retrieving any data but there is ine error which i can see in console of browser that is as below

You will click on the correct request in the left hand side panel, then select "Inspectors" in the right hand side top panel. Then choose between the different request and response options.

Generate arrays using dynamically generated forms

Basically, I'm using JavaScript to dynamically generate a form that allows from multiple entries within a single submission. Here's the code I'm using for that:
function addEvent()
{
var ni = document.getElementById('myDiv');
var numi = document.getElementById('theValue');
var num = (document.getElementById('theValue').value - 1) + 2;
numi.value = num;
var divIdName = 'my' + num + 'Div';
var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
newdiv.setAttribute('id', divIdName);
newdiv.innerHTML = '<table id="style" style="background-color: #ffffff;"><tr><td colspan="2">Entry ' + num + '<hr \/><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><label>Item 1: <\/td><td><input name="item1_' + num + '" value="" type="text" id="item1" \/><\/label><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><label>Item 2: <\/td><td><input name="item2_' + num + '" type="text" id="item2" \/><\/label><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><label>Item 3: <\/td><td><input type="text" name="item3_' + num + '" id="item3" \/><\/label><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><label>Item 4: <\/td><td><select name="item4_' + num + '" id="item4"><option value="---">---<\/option><option value="opt_1">1<\/option><option value="opt_2">2<\/option><option value="opt_3">3<\/option><option value="opt_4">4<\/option><\/select><\/label><\/td><\/tr><\/table>';
ni.appendChild(newdiv);
}
This works just fine, generating the entries fields I need. Using console in-browser, I've even verified all the names are correct. The issue is that I need to then take the selections and generate output. I've tried several methods, but everything resulted in null values.
function generateVideo()
{
var entries = document.getElementById('theValue').value;
var item1 = {};
var item2 = {};
var item3 = {};
var item4 = {};
for(i = 1; i <= entries; i++)
{
item1[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item1_' + i);
item2[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item2_' + i);
item3[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item3_' + i);
item4[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item4_' + i);
}
var code = 'Copy code and paste it into Notepad<br \/>"Save as" filename.html<br \/><textarea name="" cols="45" rows="34">header template\n';
for(i = 0; i < entries; i++)
{
if(i != (entries - 1))
{
code = code + ' ["' + item1[i] + '", "' + item2[i] + '", "' + item3[i] + '", "' + item4[i] + '"],\n';
}
else
{
code = code + ' ["' + item1[i] + '", "' + item2[i] + '", "' + item3[i] + '", "' + item4[i] + '"]\n';
}
}
code = code + 'footer template<\/textarea>';
var result = document.getElementById("result");
result.innerHTML = code;
}
The output is as follows:
Copy code and paste it into Notepad<br />"Save as" CourseName_Unit_Chapter.html<br /><textarea name="" cols="45" rows="34">header template
["null", "null", "null", "null"]
footer template</textarea>
Now, certain fields can be null, that's fine (I'll do form validation after I get it working), but I'm getting null for every field regardless of what is entered.
I, originally, had the .value on the getElementByIds, but that only results in the script not running when the entries variable is greater than 0 (default), which is why I tried removing them.
function generateVideo()
{
var entries = document.getElementById('theValue').value;
var item1 = {};
var item2 = {};
var item3 = {};
var item4 = {};
for(i = 1; i <= entries; i++)
{
item1[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item1_' + i).value;
item2[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item2_' + i).value;
item3[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item3_' + i).value;
item4[i - 1] = document.getElementById('item4_' + i).value;
}
var code = 'Copy code and paste it into Notepad<br \/>"Save as" filename.html<br \/><textarea name="" cols="45" rows="34">header template\n';
for(i = 0; i < entries; i++)
{
if(i != (entries - 1))
{
code = code + ' ["' + item1[i] + '", "' + item2[i] + '", "' + item3[i] + '", "' + item4[i] + '"],\n';
}
else
{
code = code + ' ["' + item1[i] + '", "' + item2[i] + '", "' + item3[i] + '", "' + item4[i] + '"]\n';
}
}
code = code + 'footer template<\/textarea>';
var result = document.getElementById("result");
result.innerHTML = code;
}
I've also tried variations of multidimensional arrays, instead of four arrays, but got the same results.
The output, as indicated by the removal of the .value on the getElementByIds, is good. Basically, there is something wrong with my attempts to populate the arrays using the dynamically generated forms.
I suspect that the issue with the declaration of the element ID, but I'm not sure how else to declare it. This style of scripting is not my norm. ^^'
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix the for loop to generate the array?

replace all occurences of
itemN[i]
with
itemN[i].value
if that doesnt work add
console.log( itemN[i] )
and see what it outputs