FN-GM Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 Hello, We have a Google Sheet with information taken from a Google Form (absence request). Someone comes in modifies the data and then sends it to the person who put in the original request. The person doing it is copy and pasting it into an email at the moment. Is there a way to make it you can send it within sheets please? maybe an ad-don? Thanks
NotSoFast Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 I can't think of an add-on that would do this out of the box, but I'm sure you could write a little bit of apps script that would run with an onEdit trigger.
rogerdnixon Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 The Formmule add-on will do this. Can be used with the Copydown add-on if you want to process the data first. If you want to dump the data into a doc and then share it with people, Autocrat does the job. These three add-ons automate a lot of our stuff. 1
NotSoFast Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 I was thinking of this tutorial: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/expense_report_approval
FN-GM Posted August 21, 2017 Author Posted August 21, 2017 Hello, Just trying Formmule, seems to do the trick. But the messages don't seem to get to the inbox. Thanks @NotSoFast that might help as well. Will have a look shortly. Thanks
FN-GM Posted August 21, 2017 Author Posted August 21, 2017 They do get to the inbox, I had my personal gmail account open!!
FN-GM Posted August 21, 2017 Author Posted August 21, 2017 @rogerdnixon do you know if it is possible to setup Formmule to only send data once a particular column has been processed please? Thanks
Ditto Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 (edited) If formmule does this it looks like you are home and dry. We use YAMM (which stands for Yet another mail merge) which does email tracking so could probably be used as an alternative and/or in conjunction with the others add-ons. I'll be looking in to Formmule and Copydown. One of my background ambitions is to build an automated electronic data parental/pupil data checking process and these apps/add-ons look as though there are worth a closer look. Perhaps I should start a new thread for this? Edited August 21, 2017 by Ditto
rogerdnixon Posted August 21, 2017 Posted August 21, 2017 @rogerdnixon do you know if it is possible to setup Formmule to only send data once a particular column has been processed please? Thanks Yes - in the Formmule settings, you can set the merge to run on conditions - so may a Y in a given column to indicate something has been done. You can also set it to run on a schedule rather than on form submit, if someone needs to do something manually to the data. I normally use it with CopyDown which allows most data processing to be automated.
FN-GM Posted September 10, 2017 Author Posted September 10, 2017 Yes - in the Formmule settings, you can set the merge to run on conditions - so may a Y in a given column to indicate something has been done. You can also set it to run on a schedule rather than on form submit, if someone needs to do something manually to the data. I normally use it with CopyDown which allows most data processing to be automated. @rogerdnixon - I am struggling to find this, do you have a screenshot or something please? Thanks
rogerdnixon Posted September 10, 2017 Posted September 10, 2017 Formmule: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/formmule-email-merge-util/kabhamaiihmaphgpijdolgcihofefajn?hl=en Their site: formMule - CloudLab Tutorial vid:
FN-GM Posted September 10, 2017 Author Posted September 10, 2017 Hello, I have it running, its just the conditions stuff. I am not 100% sure. I have a column called processed by. If they is empty I don't want the merge to be triggered. Would it be like the attached please? Thanks
rogerdnixon Posted September 10, 2017 Posted September 10, 2017 I normally just put a letter of something in - so equals x or the like. But as far as I can see that should work. The G+ community is a good resource https://plus.google.com/communities/104966983745456719075?hl=en-GB 1
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