I've seen a lot of code snippets and API references online, but I've not been able yet to find a simple guide on how to edit a Google form with Javascript.
I've got a form linked to a sheet, I want one a drop-down list in the form to get its values from a column of the sheet. So I need to get the sheet, find the column, get the data and feed it to the widget.
I can't even see how to get to the form's script. A kick start would be much appreciated. Thanks
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/
Google has a JS-based scripting language to edit Drive features like Docs and Spreadsheet.
EDIT 1:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/your_first_script
There's also a convenient Google Scripts Editor. Create a google doc and look under 'tools'.
script.google.com
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I need some help about the best way to do a small automation project.
I have created a form using Typeform. At the end of the form, the answers are automatically send to a Google Spreadsheet using Zapier. Now, I want to generate a PDF and send it to the user each time there is a new entry in my form. I was thinking to use Google Script (JavaScript) to do so.
The tricky part is that my form is dynamic: if the user answers A to question 1, he will jump to question 2. Else, he will directly jump to question 3 and never see question 2. So, I will have empty rows in my answer’s spreadsheet and won’t be able to just copy/paste the answers. So I am wondering: are Google Spreadsheet and Google Script the best way to generate a pdf based on answers submitted to a form? Is there another better technology to do it?
Thank you for your advices,
Romain
I suggest you have a look at autocrat. However, as your form is dynamic autocrat won't be able to dynamically build your document, if a cell is empty the field in the doc will be empty too.
It is possible to build a custom script to create a dynamic doc based on the information submitted to the sheet but that would require knowledge of the Google App Script coding.
I was hoping someone could help me write a code or point me to where I could find something to help me do this:
Take Google Sheet data and populate a Google Site template page with it.
This would save me a lot of time because I have all these pages that I want to populate this data with and I have created the template for the look of the page itself. However, I have no idea how to do this. I was thinking about trying to use an add-on to put the data into a template Google doc (I think I found something like that) and then put the Google doc on the webpage, but I would much prefer it right on the web page.
I know this is a lot and I would appreciate any help. If you know of a code that would do this for me (and somewhere that would best help me understand it) as well as any add-ons they have in Google Sheets or Google Sites that may do this (I have not been able to find one), please let me know. Thank you so much!
I am new to google spreadsheets.
I am trying to use them for a small website where instead of maintaining a DB, I am storing and fetching data from sheets using APIs.
I found this library - https://github.com/mikeymckay/google-spreadsheet-javascript , for fetching data from a published sheet.
It serves my purpose of doing everything in the browser.
But I am not able to figure out how can I write data to same/different spreadsheet.
Do I use Sheet APIs? Can I also do it using App Script ? Is there a ready to use library for the same ?
Can someone please help?
You'd likely want to check out the Google Drive API, rather than Google Apps Scripts. I don't have much experience with it, especially in regards to using it on a website, but that's the best direction to head in.
I am very new to Java and scripts in general, but I am trying to create an app that takes the data from a sites.google website form and places the data into a table within Cloud SQL.
I have successfully created 3 tables (linked with foreign keys) in a database within a Cloud SQL instance on Google's developer console.
The entries in the form correspond to the different headers in the database table, so the data should drop into the appropriate column.
I have tried many of the quickstart and other tutorials within the developer's console documentation links and on the web, but none of them really help me with what I am trying to accomplish..
I have been playing around with code in scripts.google, but haven't really gotten anywhere. Because I am unfamiliar with scripts, I don't know whether I should be using JavaScripts, PHP, python. I've seen tutorials using eclipse and maven but have not been successful/found them helpful.
Hoping someone can steer me in the right direction..
Any feedback or examples I can refer to would be greatly appreciated!
I have working found examples of writing to a Google Docs spreadsheet using JavaScript/jQuery (which I would have thought would have been the harder part).
However, I am struggling to find any current examples of searching a Docs spreadsheet for rows whose cells have matching criteria and returning those rows using jQuery. The few that I have found are all pointing to ancient Google API documents.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have you considered using Google Apps Script? Here is a link with some documentation on how to connect to a Google Spreadsheet for the purpose of parsing its data: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets.