Upload Files from Google Drive to Google Cloud Storage with Google Apps Script

This tutorial describes how you can upload files and folders from your Google Drive to a bucket in Google Cloud Storage using Google Apps Script. You can even set up a time-based trigger, like a cron job, that watches a folder in your Google Drive and automatically upload new incoming files to Google Cloud Storage. The same technique can also be used...

Jan 2023

Formulas in Google Sheets Disappear When New Rows Are Added - The Solution

An order form, created in Google Forms, requires customers to provide their full name, the item quantity and whether home delivery is required. The final bill amount is calculated with a simple formula in Google Sheets.// Item cost is $99 per unit. Delivery cost is $19. =IF(ISNUMBER(C2), SUM(C2*99, IF(D2="Yes", 19, 0)), ) ...

Sep 2022

How to Use Google Docs as a Code Runner

You have been using Google Docs to write documents and essays but did you know that the same editor can also be used to write and run JavaScript code?It is no replacement for a dedicated IDE like Visual Studio code but Google Docs can be used as a JavaScript playground to quickly run code snippets.Here’s a sample document written in Google Docs and...

Sep 2022

How to Send Personalized Text Messages from Google Sheets

The Document Studio add-on helps you automatically send text messages when a new Google Form is submitted or when new rows are added to Google Sheets. You can thus build workflows that send text reminders when the invoices are due. Or you can get notified instantly when people fill out your Google Forms.The SMS WorkflowThe text messages in Document...

Sep 2022

How Teachers can Email Parents of Students from Google Forms

A school provides email accounts for students that are enrolled in high school. The school has published a Google Form and any student can put their name in the form to request access to an email address.Parent’s consent is required though. When a child submits the request, an email confirmation is sent to the parent of the child for them to provide...

Sep 2022

How to Make Personalized Place Cards with Guest Names

Whether it is a wedding party or a business conference, those tent-shaped place cards are ideal for helping your guests find their seats at the event. This tutorial explains how you can create personalized place cards with the names of your guests and the table number to which they have been assigned. We’ll use Google Sheets...

Sep 2022

How to Calculate the Percentage Score in a Google Forms Quiz

We have created a simple quiz in Google Forms that has 3 questions and each correct answer gives you 10 points. The maximum score that can be attained in the quiz in thus 30 points.When someone takes the quiz and submits the form, the responses are recorded in a Google Sheet that is set as the response destination for your Google Form.There’s something...

Aug 2022

How to Auto Format Google Form Responses in Google Sheets

When you submit a Google Form, it stores a copy of the form response as a new row in the Google Sheet. The only problem here is that Google Forms will not add any formatting or styles to the new row that you may have applied to the previous rows of the sheet. Let me illustrate this with a small example.Here’s a Google Sheet that is storing Google Form...

Jun 2022

The Most Useful Twitter Bots

Set reminders with @RemindMe_OfThisAn open-source Twitter bot that lets you easily set reminders for public tweets. Mention @RemindMe_OfThis in the reply of any tweet and specify the time in natural English when you would like to reminded of that tweet.You could say things like in 2 days or in 12 hours or next week or even in 5 years. Check out the...

May 2022

How to Use Gmail SMTP Server for Sending Email

This step-by-step tutorial describes how you can connect to the Gmail SMTP server for sending emails from a Node.js web application that could be deployed on Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, Cloud Run or running on your local machine.And unlike most other Node SMTP tutorials that use the username and password combination, this approach uses OAuth...

May 2022