This script allows you to setup a Google Form that adds events to a calendar. It’s useful. You’d make your form first and calendar. Then you’d adjust it to reflect your particular column order and calendar ID. Finally, you’d add the script to your Google sheet (where the form submissions end up). [Edit] You’ll also […]
Imagine you have a large folder of images in Google Drive. I don’t have to imagine this as I do thanks to an IFTTT recipe.1 Google tends to be kind of stingy with the kinds of filtering/interactions you can have with files in their folders and we know that if you get stuff in Google […]
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via the magical XKCD Fun being a fairly relative term . . . but I’m amused. The Meat You can write custom functions in Google Spreadsheets and then use them like other built in functions. I didn’t realize that. The script below1 grabs all the URLs from a chunk of text. You could add it […]
I’ve created documentation in lots of platforms with lots of people over the last 15 years. These attempts tend to fail, or fail to thrive, for a variety of reasons. I can’t address all of the human factors but I can look harder at a few of the mechanical ones. Here are a few of […]
Some people don’t have websites handy or their blogs won’t allow iframe embeds. They should still be able to have their students do stuff and get it all in one place. This is the Internet! And this tool is meant to deal with that. You can see a working example with three submissions (via a […]
When working with Google Forms, there are two elements- the sheet (where the responses go) and the form. It’s not obvious how you might allow another user to copy both a form and a sheet in Google. So . . . assuming you set the document so that anyone can see it (or share it […]
flickr photo shared by Kecko under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license Man. This was a slog and really highlighted gross inadequacies in my conceptual understanding of pretty much everything. That being said, with an end-around, it works. The whole thing is below but there were really two pieces where I got stuck and […]
Back in 2013 I built a refrigerator poetry page using javascript. I really wanted to make it so anyone could add any words they wanted in some easy way but didn’t have the skills to do that at the time. It’s been hanging out in the back of my mind since then and the bits […]
flickr photo shared by cogdogblog under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license Because I still read the posts from the good people over at HCPS I came across Doug’s post on a script that Michael Price wrote. The script sets up a form that lets anyone upload a file to a Google Folder.1 It […]
The challenge as initially laid out was to let students log the miles they walk and have those miles show their progress from Richmond VA to Key West FL on a map. I found quite a few ways not to do this- mostly because I was attacking the problem in the wrong way. I wanted […]