Compiling and presenting data from other services
In the example we used to create a document, we were getting data from a spreadsheet; but, of course, you can get data from any other Google service and, although it is not as simple, any other data server on the Internet. This is one of the major advantages of the document creation mode that Google has implemented in this service.
Just about anything that contains text can be imported and presented in a Google document along with images, drawings, and even math formulas. The preceding example showed how to insert an image stored in our drive; the next one will get text from our personal calendar.
Calendar, contact, spreadsheets, and forms are really easy to get data from in a way that fits pretty well in a text document, because every property can be obtained as a string. It is only a matter of imagination and creativity on your part to concatenate everything in a pleasant way.
The following is a very basic example of a script that gets events...
