Google Script : Enterprise Application Essentials - Adding Functionality to Your Google Apps

How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site. If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, you ll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks. Learn Google Script s built-in debugger, script manager, and other features Create a user interface as a pop-up window, a web page, or a Google Sites gadget Use data objects and CSS to build effective product pages Automatically generate web forms from key values you specify in your Google Docs Create a database UI that works as a mobile app and Google Site gadget Use Google Docs and Gmail to create a document revision workflow How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform—with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You’ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site. If you have some JavaScript experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks. Learn Google Script’s built-in debugger, script manager, and other features Create a user interface as a pop-up window, a web page, or a Google Sites gadget Use data objects and CSS to build effective product pages Automatically generate web forms from key values you specify in your Google Docs Create a database UI that works as a mobile app and Google Site gadget Use Google Docs and Gmail to create a document revision workflow Annotation How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organizations needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the JavaScript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platformwith no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. Youll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site. If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, youll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks. Learn Google Scripts built-in debugger, script manager, and other featuresCreate a user interface as a pop-up window, a web page, or a Google Sites gadgetUse data objects and CSS to build effective product pagesAutomatically generate web forms from key values you specify in your Google DocsCreate a database UI that works as a mobile app and Google Site gadgetUse Google Docs and Gmail to create a document revision workflow This book is about building enterprise applications using the incredibly powerful Google Script. Starting with the basics of using the script editor you will learn the process and best practices of application building by working through detailed examples of real world applications used by thousands of people.