Google Apps Script is a scripting language based on JavaScript that lets you do new and cool things with Google Apps applications such as Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms.
What are the Benefits?
Script based App is lightweight and easy to use. Also, you can save time and money as you don’t need to build an entire application but you can accomplish similar results with scripts. Many small businesses love Script based Apps but a particular team or group in a large sized organization can also utilize scripts to make the most out of Google Apps experience .
What I Can Do with Apps Script?
With Apps Script, you can add custom menus, dialogs, and sidebars to Google Docs, Sheets and Forms. Also, custom functions that can interact with Google services such as Google Analytics, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Drive and Google Maps can be embedded. It can also be embedded to Google Sites and be published as a web app.
Here are 11 top script based applications available from Netkiller.
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Bulk Personalized Email Solution: You can send bulk emails in a personalized manner (with
names and custom text) to multiple lists simultaneously on just a single click.recipients also supports images and attachments can be used for email campaigns that are personalized to each individual.This solution which
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Google Apps Activity Reporting: Shows logical activities of entire Google Apps users and enable search within a certain
. Also, it shows if a user’s mailbox quota has reached 95% and an Email notification will be sent.timeframe -
Control of Google Drive Folders: Files shared by a certain user can be placed within a specific folder, just like Gmail filter.
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Automatic Email Archiving to Google Vault: Forward user’s entire inbound emails to a specific Google Vault
to use them as a centralized email backup or archiving repository.accounts -
Shared Contacts for Google Contacts: You can have a shared contacts app to sync your Google contacts to Google sheets and share certain contacts with your colleagues.
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Mass Contacts Deletion: Delete emails of certain business domain in a user’s google contacts.
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One Click Permission Change: With a push of a button, you revoke the editing permission of other users.
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Employee Birthday Roaster with Integration of Google Calendar: After creating a Domain shared Calendar and a spreadsheet with everyone’s birthday information, a script can be used to automatically create
for people’s birthday in “Employee Birthday” calendar.yearly event -
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and scheduling for Gmail: Send bulk Email with the Email and Name information in spreadsheet on a scheduled time.merge -
Bulk Addition of Email Aliases: Add multiple email aliases to multiple google apps accounts in a single click.
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Workflow for Google Docs/Sheets: Request an approval to any user with an email ID.
Using the script app is easy. You can just install the script app in Google docs and additional menu will be displayed so users can just click to start the app within Google Docs.
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