This post should be a short one, and builds on a few previous posts that involve creating custom Google Docs. In those articles, I demonstrate how to use various methods of DocumentApp to create custom Google Docs using Google Apps Script. In most of those examples, I use a method called replaceText that exists on […]
Read MoreIn this post, I’ll walk you through how to auto fill Google Doc templates with data pulled from a Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. This tutorial is a follow-up of sort to Auto Fill a Google Doc from Google Form Submissions, so if what you want to do involves a form, that would be […]
Read MoreSometimes when you are coding and you need to make calculations, we introduce values into our programs that are called ‘magic numbers.‘ Magic numbers make it harder for someone else reading your code to understand its meaning and intent. What Are Magic Numbers? Magic numbers are unique values, typically numerical, with unexplained meaning in your […]
Read MoreOver the last couple of weeks, there has been some renewed interest in a project I started a few years back, our Online@VCU virtual assistant (aka chatbot), that is created using Amazon Lex, Lambda, and DynamoDB. We launched the chatbot with maybe 10-15 intents, mostly focused on prospective and current students, but as a part […]
Read MoreI’ve had a few people ask me about variations to my write-up of how to auto-populate Google Docs from Google Forms submissions. One of the most recurring involves appending all responses to a single doc instead of creating a new one from a template. Does anyone have a better method than manually updating a Google […]
Read MoreThis should be a quick post, but I’m doing more of my Google Apps Script development in clasp using TypeScript now, which exposes some interesting ways of doing things that I’ll continue to document as time allows. As much as I appreciate the built-in script editor, the cognitive overload of even moderate software with a […]
Read MoreOver the past several years, I’ve been prying more and more at the limits of the WordPress REST API as they apply to creating ‘headless’ sites and applications. Using the ‘headless’ methodology we can side-step server side rendering (SSR) in favor of JavaScript applications that request data as needed to re-render different views for the […]
Read MoreI’m working on a project right now that allows people to send images to the Google Cloud Vision API for analysis using a Google Sheet and Google Apps Script. As part of that project, we talked about how we could incorporate emoji into the analysis in various ways to produce insights. Since this is also […]
Read MoreIn a recent project, I had the need to get an array of all of the pages on a site that were using a particular page template. It turns out that this is really just an extension of any other type of meta query I could run, but you need to know that the meta […]
Read MoreMost of the comments I get on this site have to do with someone trying something I’ve written about that isn’t working for them. In most cases, error messages can be your friends since they can point to the particular place your script failed and give you additional insight into why it failed. This post […]
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