I would like to have an URL which opens an editable Google Spreadsheet and have specified cells selected so that the user does not have to find the data in a long sheet before editing. The cells to be selected should be given in the URL. It is also good if a specific row is filtered.
It was super easy with the old Google spreadsheets. I know it is possible without editing possibility, but I need it to open the editable version.
Also I know that I could create a filter view and share that as a link, but I cannot make a filter view for each row and get the URL for it.
I have also went into web scripts (HTTP Get in Google Spreadsheet, "e undefined"), which can take variables from URL, but cannot open the sheet on the client side (I have not found it yet).
You can create a Google Script webapp that would store url values as User Properties which could then be used in an onOpen trigger. To make this work there is a couple of things to be aware of. Firstly, like other Properties Services stored values are bound to the script. This means that if you write two different scripts and set a User Property in one script you can’t get it in another:
The Properties Service lets you store simple data in key-value pairs
scoped to one script, one user of a script, or one document in which
an add-on is used. … Properties are never shared between scripts. –
Google Script Properties Service Guide
A way around this is you have a library which is used to store and return properties. I've written a blog post which explains this in more detail. As part if this I've created a webapp anyone can use using the following url and parameters
To open your sheet at a row for editing direct users to the following url replacing the values as indicated:
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzG9_2mWd6x7zFf9V6PH33ORRzZWcVGi_pQs500nbs5Pbdkwy26/exec?id=YOUR_SHEET_ID&sheet=YOUR_SHEET_NAME&row=YOUR_ROW_NUMBER
Optionally if you wish to include a header row when the sheet opens use &header=NUMBER_OF_ROWS_FOR_HEADER. Anyone is welcome fork/modify this code to get your required functionality.
its not possible in new sheets because they removed the listview feature from old sheets.
your only option is the one mentioned in the linked blog post you provided:
"Comment at a specific cell, and, in that comment "plus someone" - that is, type "+" and then the person's email or name NOTE: you will get a list of people in your domain as soon as you type the "+", filtered as you start typing their name/email the person you "plussed" will get an email with both the contents of the cell and your comment the link in that email will take them DIRECTLY TO THE TARGET CELL with the comment activated"
*** Update THR 20181004: In today's current version of Google Sheets, you can right-click a cell and select the "Get link to this cell" menu item, which copies a URL to the clipboard that will open the spreadsheet with the indicated cell in the upper left corner, subject to the limit of the existing rows and columns filling to the bottom and right edges respectively of the page. The URL is the same format as in the previous feature before this exposure in the Sheets UI, appending &range=<cell-A1-address> to the #gid=<tab-GID> fragment spec, eg:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QSAJzpdM6z4haa-ah1HKqdy8U1vUxWmPIwplej-9fsI/edit#gid=907876553&range=C7
In today's (THR 20180607) current version of Google Sheets, you can open a sheet with a specified cell shown in the top left visible corner, by specifying the cell address as the range in the URL's fragment component. For example, cell C7 in Google's [Template] Google Sheets: Project plan sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QSAJzpdM6z4haa-ah1HKqdy8U1vUxWmPIwplej-9fsI/edit#gid=907876553&range=C7
Of course this same technique positions the top left cell of a multicell range in the top left visible corner of the sheet.
Note that the specified cell will be positioned in the window's scrolling viewport after any frozen rows/columns are applied to the view. You can get the complete URL, including the cell's fragment tuple, by right-clicking the cell, and in the popup context menu selecting "Get link to this cell".
The URL can be constructed programmatically, so any object in the sheet that can anchor a hyperlink URL can be linked to any cell/range for navigation to it. Therefore this technique is usable via the GUI, by cell formula/style, or by script - or by any external application/page.
It's disappointing that Google hasn't included in the basic Sheets GUI a field in which the user can enter a cell or range address to jump to that range by URL. Every serious spreadsheet application has had this basic feature since the 1980s.
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BLUEBEAM AND ADOBE ARE BOTH PDF VIEWERS THAT HAVE A LOT OF SIMILARITIES
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to link a form answer to some markups (tools).
Custom Columns that are created In Bluebeam:
When I create a new tool I can manually fill out all of these custom columns under the "Custom" section within the settings of a tool:
Then I can save that tool and all of the data will be repeated for every copy of that tool. However, the circled columns in the first picture would be changing on every page. Which means I would have to make a new tool for every page. (FYI I would be making ~20 tools for this, so I would have to update 20 tools every single page ;_;) Therefore, I want to create a dropdown/textbox on each page with those columns. When a user fills out the dropdown/textbox, the markups are automatically updated with that info, which means the custom columns are also updated.
Does anyone have an idea of how to link these?
As of now I have been able to create a code that creates a popup if a user selects a certain drop down. This shows me that you can grab the data from a user. I just don't know how to connect that data to all the markups (tools). I know each markup has a special ID, but I'm curious if you can somehow link to the tools "subject" property to do this.
Bluebeam provided me with their JavaScript API if that is any help.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/yEdU1.jpg (I got this image from this post JavaScript Library with Bluebeam)
UPDATE
I found another document with potential accepted scripts for Bluebeam. Please note this one will require people to have Bluebeam Revu eXtreme
https://support.bluebeam.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Bluebeam-Script-Reference-2018.pdf
This version actually has a markup section (which are the things I am more or less wanting to have the custom columns be updated for with the user input)
This document seems to be relevant only for the Bluebeam Script Editor. You can open it by looking in the folder for Bluebeam from your start window.
There are 2 issues I have with this though. I haven't figured out how to run the codes I have in the script inside of Bluebeam yet and I am curious if there is a way to not need the markupID's and/or a way to get them without having to download the markups
I've been lurking on stack for so long, I finally have something to contribute...
I work with custom columns and toolsets all the time. I think you're missing a basic understanding of what the markup list is. Or maybe I am. The markup list is the table of data at the bottom of Bluebeam, where you're trying to change column headings.
The markup list is basically a table of data, what you're trying to do will change the column headers per page, which would change it for all entries. From what I know about Bluebeam, these are static, just like any database or table in any application like Excel. If you need to have different column headings, you need to just stack them all and use what you need on each page or from tool to tool. Or create different profiles with different custom columns, but this gets messy having multiple profiles accessing a single document. Maybe java can help show and hide these per what's relevant on the page within the custom field. But... I think the java is limited to be used within PDF form fields and some basic PDF actions such as print, save, etc. I don't think the level of coding you're looking for exists within Bluebeam.
I use profiles to manage custom columns per process, not the actual tool. It's kind of unclear exactly why the custom columns can follow the tools without the actual profile though.
What I do to accomplish complex tasks is export the markup list and build something within Excel VBA to tabulate data and export reports with relevant information. I'm sure you could use basically any coding language to accomplish this after the table is exported from Bluebeam.
I am trying to automate action items assignments in google sheets.
At the moment it is manual process. Our google sheets have section with two columns:
One column with reviewer names and emails
Another column with sign off (completion) dates
Managers have to go through many “sign off” cells one by one, press Ctrl+Alt+M to insert comment, enter corresponding reviewer’s email with plus symbol and some text
‘+John.Citizen#mycompany.com
Please review this sheet and blah-blah-blah’
JavaScript Range functions setNote or setCommet (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/range#setnotenote ) do not work for me.
Any idea how to assign using script or somehow simulate pressing (Ctrl+Alt+M) ?
Thank you
As #Patrick P says, there is no methods in Apps Script to interact with comments.
But go ahead and add a star next to the issue number here[1] to give it more visibility.
[1]https://issuetracker.google.com/36756650
With the Drive API you can create and manage comments and replies, they can be anchored to a position on the document, or unanchored which is just associated with the document.
Have a read at the documentation here:[2]
[2]https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/manage-comments
I am building my google chrome extension with functionality as follows:
Extention will be used only on one specific domain (like http(s)://www.abc.com/*)
Extention will be running(listening) all the time - on any page within the given domain
Upon highlighting(selecting by mouse) an ident of a course, its statistics(grade distribution) will be shown on the same page. The graph will be shown on top of the page content = doesn't matter where exactly, I will adjust that later.
Now, course statistics(graphs) are stored on the same domain, yet different page. It is needed to "go/click through" other two pages - to select the semester and desired course. Then the graph is shown.
Question:
Can I(and how) access these graphs(being on another page yet being on the same domain) and display them on my current page (where I highlighted text)
Notes:
I read through some other questions here like this or this and came to the conclusion it should be possible since it is on the same domain however I could not find any way how to force JS to access content on another webpage.
I have coded the part with selecting the text, capturing selected text and storing it in variable. Now I need a function (set of functions) to access different page, there in HTML find math with my selected text - click/redirect on the/with corresponding link, being redirected on another page, there copy the image and finally display this image on my page.
Ideally, only one tab (where I select ident) will be open. But if its needed new tab with statistics can be open too..
To access the domain described above, you have to be logged in - could be this also a problem?
Although I program unfortunately not in JS, so all this is new to me.
Many thanks to everyone in advance!
I am trying to find a way to protect a Google Sheets spreadsheet document from being modified by the owner. In other words, I want to make the cells of my Google Sheets spreadsheet to be read-only.
How can I create a script, assigned to a button, that would accomplish this?
Specifically, I need two features:
1) Make the sheet read-only.
2) Modify a specific cell, then make the sheet read-only again.
I'm not sure if you mean you, as the owner of the sheet, are unable to edit it or if everyone except you is unable to edit it.
Either way, go to the Data menu and click 'Protected sheets and ranges'. In the sidebar, click 'add a range', add a description if you like, choose 'range' from 'range/sheet', add the cell reference you wish to protect and:
If you want others to be unable to edit it:
Change permission drop down to 'Only me'
If you want to be unable to edit it:
Change permissions to 'Edit with warning'
(This is the best I can think of, because as the owner of the sheet, you cannot prevent yourself from editing cells, but this will alert you if you try change a cell you wish to protect)
Found Solution In this site.
Go to Data -> Protected Sheet & Ranges
https://www.howtogeek.com/412399/how-to-protect-cells-from-editing-in-google-sheets/
I'm creating a spreadsheet that lets a user select an item from a custom menu, then automatically populates the sheet with relevant data for the item they chose to add. Think of it like a configurator for a burger, where users can click "Add tomato" and the spreadsheet automatically creates a line item for tomato and adjusts the total cost of the burger at the bottom.
I also need a way to selectively delete items the user no longer wants.
I'm trying to insert an image next to each item that resembles an X symbol, and attach code to that image that will delete the corresponding item and all associated data.
The insertImage() function doesn't seem to allow this. Any ideas?
Thanks for any help!
You have two options:
You can manually create a button (an image with a script linked). Click the arrow at the top right of an embedded image and select "Assign script..."
You can program your own add-on (or find an add-on that someone else created that does the exact thing you're looking for). See https://developers.google.com/apps-script/quickstart/docs
At this time it is not possible to attach a script to an image that was added using Google Apps Script
Also addressed in Adding Buttons To Google Sheets and Set value to Cells on clicking