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Learning Google Apps Script

You're reading from   Learning Google Apps Script Customize and automate Google Applications using Apps Script

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785882517
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ramalingam Ganapathy Ramalingam Ganapathy
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Google Apps Scripts 2. Creating Basic Elements FREE CHAPTER 3. Parsing and Sending E-mails 4. Creating Interactive Forms 5. Creating Google Calendar and Drive Applications 6. Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications 7. Creating Interactive Webpages 8. Building a Workflow Application 9. More Tips and Tricks and Creating an Add-on Index

Creating an employee timesheet application


From the knowledge and experience gathered by creating the preceding applications, you can create this full blown timesheet application. This application can be used in an organization or company to log employees, worked hours in a day or shift. The daily attendance data will be backed in the Backup Sheet for future reference.

Create a new spreadsheet with a Sheet named EmployeesList and populate it with employee names. All these names will be listed as a dropdown automatically in the user interface.

Create another Sheet named TimeSheet and arrange the column headers as shown in the following screenshot. Ensure columns C, D, E, and F are formatted as date, otherwise date may be shown as epoch number. Leave column A blank as it will be used by the script to mark the status of a shift such as sb (shift begin), bb (break begin), be (break end), and se (shift end).

Create another Sheet with the name Backup, which is used to back up every day's shift data...

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