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Talking about Internet of Things and Google Analytics at IOT//EDI 30 March @ 6.30pmBST – watch remotely

Update: Slides for this talk are available from bit.ly/IOT-EDI-GA On 30 March @6.30pm BST I’m delighted to be speaking at the  Internet of Things Scotland Meetup in Edinburgh about Google Analytics and IoT. I’m just one of several speakers talking at the event and you can find out more on the IOT//EDI Meetup page. If […]

Tips for debugging Google Form ‘onSubmit’ functions in Google Apps Script

A question came up recently in the Google Apps Script G+ community about accessing submitted Google Form values. It can be tricky to do this sometimes as the Google Apps Script debugger can’t be triggered on the onFormSubmit event. The form submit event object also returns the data in different ways. My approach to this […]

Emergency Rations #EdTechRations – Wearables

I was recently delighted to be asked by David Hopkins to contribute a vinnette for his latest book ‘Emergency Rations #EdTechRations’. The book: book is a collection of 40 world leading teachers, academics, influencers, critics and practitioners who have answered the question “have you ever walked out the door to go to work, the shops, […]

Running a Google Apps Script function every quarter or x months

One of the great things about Google Apps Script is the way you can automate tasks. I’ve previously written about how I automate reporting and other examples like running backup processes. These usually run daily or once a month which is very straight forward to setup in Google Apps Script. If you want to run […]

Google Apps Script: The Authentic{ated} Mobile Playground (demo of image capture, and .pdf publication)

I was delighted to be able to speak recently at the Edinburgh Mobile Dev Meetup about Google Apps Script. Thanks to Product Forge there’s a recording of my session on YouTube and you can also get my slides as Google Slides or from Slideshare. The start of this talk is my usual Google Apps Script […]

Join us to find out about analytics in Google Add-ons and the new Google App Maker 16 Dec @ 3pm GMT

Back in June 2016 a couple of us in the Google Apps Script community have been putting on a monthly gathering. We are now going into our sixth episode of ‘Totally Unscripted’ which you can join on Friday 16 December at 3pm GMT. Join us for our next instalment of Totally Unscripted. In this show […]

Using the Google Slides API with Google Apps Script

Google recently announced the general availability of the Google Slides API. The announcement was accompanied by video from the new G Suite Dev Show presented by Wesley Chun embedded below, and a post by Wesley on Using the Google Slides API with Python. Wesley mentioned that “If you’re not a Python developer, it’ll be your […]

Redux: How to open a Google Sheet at a specific row for editing

Many years ago I posted a way you could open a Google Sheet at a specific row for editing. This let you do some url wrangling where you could direct someone to open a Google Sheet in what was ‘List View’ and edit the row: Sadly List View disappeared in the Google Sheets update announced […]

Using CiviCRM with Google Script/Google Drive with the new CiviService Google Script Library

At the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) we use the open source CiviCRM for membership and events management. I’ve previously described how we are able to do Custom regular reporting from #CiviCRM with Google Sheets and Google Apps Script which is able to trigger reports from Civi which are emailed to a Gmail account before […]

23ThingsEdUni: Thinking about things by doing things #23things

I’d heard about the 23Things course from various people and my boss Maren, who is in rhizo16 withdrawal, was keen that the ALT team got involved.   The course is described as: The University of Edinburgh’s 23 Things for Digital Knowledge is a self-directed course, run by Information Services Group. The programme seeks to expose you […]

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