I'm trying to provide external websites that aren't controlled by me some information they need to publish such as live inventory data. I'd like to provide them some Javascript that they can put on their site that I can control via a Google Sheet.
Here's an example:
Google Sheet A - Column 1/Row 2 = 6
With this code I provide, the external web admin makes his page say:
"We currently have 6 cinnamon rolls available"
Then someone comes in and buys two rolls. I go to the Google Sheet and update Column 1/Row 2's cell to '4' and now that same page says:
"We currently have 4 cinnamon rolls available"
Essentially i'm trying to create a CMS controlled by Google Sheet cells. I've been scouring the web and can find some attempts made in 2011ish, but I'm hoping there is a way that is as easy as embedding a YouTube video.
There is no way that's "as easy as embedding a youtube video". You need to have a server that scrapes the content of the sheet then publishes it back out.
I found something that is close enough to what I was trying to accomplish at the time, so I figured I'd share. Sheetrock is a Javascript library that allows you to use your Google Sheet like a database.
http://chriszarate.github.io/sheetrock/
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I am trying to figure out the best way to automate the gathering and exporting of information from a site I am visiting regularly to a excel sheet. I need to be able to both scrape information from the site as well as input some manually, which is why I thought a chrome extension would be a good idea.
I know that you cannot write to local files from a chrome extension, but I am trying to figure out if I can write to office online.
yeah actually i was working on something like this a month ago but not an extension just a google form that sends the data to google sheets when you submit and you can do that in an extension fo sho lemme send you the link to the youtube video i saw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ZwbTW3LF4&ab_channel=SheetDB
If your not pleased with this video i saw alot look up
"saving form data to google sheets" on youtube :)
NOTE: I know you said excel sheet but google sheets work just as well and you can download them as a file and they have just as much functionality as excel - NOTE THAT I DONT THINK ITS POSSIBLE TO DO WITH EXCEL DUE TO SAFETY PROTOCALS, NO EXTENSION CAN WRITE TO FILES ON YOUR COMPUTER SINCE THATS JUST NOT SAFE - but my alternative is the next best thing if not better :D
I created a review portal for my customers to give me a review and ratings on my service via different social networking sites.
Currently I am focusing on google review to be collected via a google widget/flow,
This above image is showing the available list of social networking sites to give review. please skip the Facebook i already integrated that.
When the user clicks "google", the google review dialog will be shown on the page to collect the google review.(Image is mentioned bellow)
I would like to avoid people from going away from my website.
I would like to know how to use google.places.reviews.createPublishReviewFlow for writing Google review via Google review widget. I saw this API Widget service has been used by some websites/web applications
I want some documentation/code/sample any thing which is helpful.
You could use http://getreviewlink.com/ to generate a link for your customers to leave reviews at for Google. This only works for Google.
You could use an iframe.
<iframe src="https://www.google.com"></iframe>
You just have to replace the src value by the right one. The only fear that I have about this technique is that you probably want to know when the user posted his review ; but you can't interact with an iframe (with jquery for example) so you'll not be able to know when the user validate the form.
I just made my first useful program (javascript) last week, but it was exhilarating to realize that I never have to to this repetitive **** again. So bear with me, since I might ask a simple question.
I'd like to, from google sheets, create separate page for each client listed in the sheet, on my wordpress page.
Is that possible?
It's a simple question, but it might save me countless of hours figuring out how, if there's actually no way.
Google Sheets cannot do it by itself, but you can make a program which will download data from Google Sheets API and then by WP REST API create posts on your Wordpress site and put data as content.
Link to WP REST API
You can also make Wordpress site download data from Sheets and then create posts.
There is a third option: make Google Apps Script which will operate on Sheets and on WP REST API.
I need to create a Windows 7 Gadget (or Widget) as a mini project. I know how to create a basic HelloWorld gadget (including the xml manifest and the html page), but I do not know how to make a complex one.
My company uses a bug tracking software (say, XYZ). My widget needs to be able to access and display data from XYZ regarding bugs, given a bug ID, or other search criteria.
I currently have the APPGUID and server name for XYZ.
Please help. I do not know where to start.
If your bug tracking software (XYZ) is a web application then you need to use its web service or you need to scrape the site to access the data regarding the bugs. You can simply scrape the site using the Simple HTML DOM.
Example can be seen in PHP Simple HTML DOM Scrape External URL
To download the library the link is http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/files/
Then you can scrape and display the data as the normal HTML code.
OR you have to use the web service provided by the XYZ application.
While looking to process a few variables from a form, and send that data to a Google Drive Spreadsheet, I found that Google Apps Script, fits better for my purpose, it just catchs all the data in a regular html form, and sends that data to my Google Drive Spreadsheet, without depending on a special type of google form, and without matching var names, vith values.
Am I missing something?
Regards!
Google Tag Manager gives you the power to create and update tags for your website and mobile apps, any time you want, at the speed of your business. You can go through the documentation here.
You can also refer to this page for more idea on what Tag manager is.
For your requirement of getting the data from a form to a Google Spreadsheet, Google Apps Script fits better.
You can refer to these links for more information of Appscript:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets#connecting_to_google_forms
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/
Hope that helps!