Google Apps Script for Beginners

Summary

We can see that there are many use cases where a simple UI can at least simplify our work with spreadsheets and documents, either by showing data in a way that is not directly available or by adding extra functionalities.

We can also use the UiApp service or HTML service to create UIs; the latter allows us to create more fancy user interfaces if we are using third-party libraries.

Of course, this means that we'll need to learn a lot of new techniques. The complete documentation about jQuery is about 300 pages long (http://forum.jquery.com/topic/jquery-1-7-reference-documentation-as-a-pdf), and I'm not even sure that reading it entirely would be sufficient to use it easily. However, as we shall see in the next chapter, the learning process ...