Google Script: Create Google Docs from Templates

Google Script Create Google Docs on the fly from templates

Google Scripts is a powerful resource with so much to offer. This course covers Google Script, drive, sheets, docs

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Last Updated: 2024-11-19 08:11:11 English Course Type: Self Learning

Create Google Docs with script
Use Google sheets to store data and access data
Send and retrieve data from Google Sheets

Learn how to use the power of Google App Script to power up your Google sheets and Google docs.

This course will walk you through how to setup a Google Doc generator using a Google Doc as a template and storing the data in Google Sheets. Source code is included so you can get started quickly includes all methods and classes use for this type of project which can also be used for similar custom applications. Google spreadsheet is used as a data source the scope of this course is how to use Google Script to create Google Docs on the fly. In the course Google Sheets is used as a data source for the listing of created documents and templates storing the doc id and other important data so that it can then be referenced to link out to the Google Doc that was created.

Once you start using Google Script you will be amazed at how easy it is and how much power you get with just a few simple built in classes. Google script is JavaScript with a bunch of Google predefined classes, methods. It gives you the ability to connect apps together.

Within this project we show you how to access the Google Script editor, all you need is a Google account and you are ready to create apps! Using the script editor you can access your google spread sheet data and use it like a database. Create a template or as many as you like, the app can pull them in dynamically by searching your google drive and pulling them into the script. Use Google script then to read the file contents and select all the fields you want to have inputs for within your template. All this data goes into the Google Spreadsheet which then gets access by the part of the app that creates documents from the template. Open the dialog window select the template, all the fields for the template get populated into the dialog form which allows the user to easily enter values to populate the new template with. Select create and the script will make a new document in your Gdrive folder using the template and updating the fields with new data. All this in a few lines of code built using Google Script.

This course is designed to illustrate what can be done with Google Script and how it can be used to create applications that do a lot.

Please note that the scope of this course is Google Script, there is some front end coding like HTML,CSS,JavaScript and jQuery which will not be covered in detail! Google Script is pretty much JavaScript so you need to be familiar with JavaScript in order to follow the course content. Classes and methods that are native to Google Script will be introduced to help help the application. Do to the large number of classes and methods only relevant ones to complete the application will be covered in this course. By the end of the course you will have a clear path on how to develop apps using Google Script to enhance what you can do within your Google Suite of Apps.

This course is taught by an instructor with over 18 years of web development experience having worked with Google Script for over 2 years.

I'm here to help you learn how to build applications and ready to answer any questions you may have. Join now and see what Google Script can do and how you too can use Google Script to produce some amazing applications.

Google Apps Script is a scripting language based on JavaScript that lets you do new and cool things with G Suite products like Docs, Sheets, and Drive. There's nothing to install — we give you a code editor right in your browser, and your scripts run on Google's servers

GSuite Services used within this course

DocumentApp : The document service creates and opens Documents that can be edited. Google Docs

DriveApp : Allows scripts to create, find, and modify files and folders in Google Drive.

SpreadsheetApp : This class allows users to open Google Sheets files and to create new ones. This class is the parent class for the Spreadsheet service.

JavaScript
HTML CSS
jQuery
Google Account

JavaScript application developers
Anyone who wants to do more with Google Apps
Anyone who wants to learn more about connecting Google Apps together
Anyone who wants to make use of full suite of Google script apps

Section 1 : Introduction to using Google Script 31 Lectures 02:22:32
Lecture 1 :
Introduction to Google Scripts Preview
Lecture 2 :
Make Google Folders and Files
Lecture 3 :
Setup Files and Headings
Lecture 4 :
Create menu items to launch functions
Lecture 5 :
Source Code for GS
Lecture 6 :
Create HTML Popup Dialog Window
Lecture 7 :
Source Code to Get HTML file contents
Lecture 8 :
Build HTML frontend
Lecture 9 :
List gDrive files
Lecture 10 :
source code
Lecture 11 :
List Google Drive Contents into Google Spreadsheet
Lecture 12 :
source code
Lecture 13 :
Read Document Content use body content in Google Script
Lecture 14 :
Use Google Script Get Spreadsheet data and return as an array
Lecture 15 :
source code
Lecture 16 :
create dynamic select list
Lecture 17 :
Use Data to generate fields for input to template
Lecture 18 :
picker source code
Lecture 19 :
Get form input values
Lecture 20 :
Pass Data to Google Script from html
Lecture 21 :
Source Code
Lecture 22 :
GS Source Code
Lecture 23 :
Planning to create doc into folder
Lecture 24 :
Copy document into drive folder
Lecture 25 :
Generate Doc from a template doc
Lecture 26 :
HTML script tweaks and styling
Lecture 27 :
Source Code
Lecture 28 :
Google Script Tweak
Lecture 29 :
GS Source Code
Lecture 30 :
App testing and conclusion
Lecture 31 :
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