I have wanted to do this for over a year now and someone on twitter referred me here. I am really grateful for the approach you too, that we could run it ever so often to see what the script does up to this point. I needed quite some time to finish it, but I have procrastinated doing exactly what you are showing for more than a year. Hence again: Thank You!!!
I'm following you for months now. Your channel helped me a lot, but this. This is just exactly what I was struggling with since last month. Thanks for your content.
Thank you so much! This worked perfectly for me to set up Christmas card envelopes. I love that you left in the "mistakes" so I could really learn how this was put together. So helpful!
Wow, this is awesome. We are using Google Suite at work now, and several months back I told someone that there's no way to do a mail merge like function from Google Sheets to Docs. I am so glad I found this; now I can help them out, since they need to get out of their MS Office environment. Thank you!!
Awesome tutorial. Love how you walk through your thinking process and the various iterations. Plus, I needed to do exactly this (without an add-one). Thanks!
yes thank you very much this is also what i needed. i am starting to understand what you are doing after 6 weeks of following your channel. I am building a database for the charity i work for and watching your channel and learning what to do in GS is very helpful.
What an excellent video! I had to stop and go back several times but this was extremely thorough! I appreciate the fact that you were testing the functions throughout to be sure that it was working properly. I'm not tech savvy at all but this really helped so much. Thanks!!
This video helped me think differently about how to process donation statements posted in Google Sheets. Noting that the paragraph type is a concern I wondered about how images or drawings inserted into the template document would copy to the body of the document to be printed. I found this is a problem because images/drawings show as type "PARAGRAPH", and the results of the copy are not exactly as that shown in the template document. In my tests the template document has headers and footers with images (such as a logo), which I simply add to the document to be printed since they're static and used for each statement. I wonder if this would be a good addition to the mail merge tutorial, and a challenge for our excellent instructor? Would other subscribers like to see this?
You did an incredible job walking through that very complicated process. I have limited-to-no experience with Javascript, yet I was able to work through this tutorial and successfully create the mail merge I wanted for our fundraiser in Google Drive. I actually appreciated that you misspelled some of the titles because it helped me differentiate between what was a title I gave something and which was a command that I couldn't rename. (Again no experience). I even was able to successfully add an image to my final product with this tutorial base. Ready to laugh? My only problem: I refreshed my Google Sheet (with my source code editor open) because it is connected to a Google Form Survey. When I did, my editor closed, and I'm flummoxed for the moment on how to reopen the editor. Attempts to open the same way as the tutorial in the beginning gives me "Sorry" messages. Told you, no experience! I'll figure it out after awhile. It's saved and named somewhere. Great job! Excellent teacher.
Your tutorial is awesome. Not only is clear but you also properly designed the steps to show its purpose, in a flow of show-problem and later show-solution. Now is there any technique for automatically populate the 'final doc' whenever new row got added to the 'spreadsheet' without having to manually run the scipt? Cheers
Excellent video! Very informative and easy to follow by someone who is learning about Apps Scripts. I found your video while looking for an example of how to merge a unique image into each document (similar to what someone might do to batch create employee ID badges or personalized labels). Do you have a video that explains merging unique images or could you point me to a good example and or documentation?
this is amazing...thank you very much for sharing! Is there a way to have it create a new doc each time for each row of data rather than page break on the same doc?
Is there a way to format the text we are merging to an email? Example, I want a word to be blue and bold. Is there a way to add an attachment in the merge to email?
This is amazing....! Thank you, thank you...! I am a bit of a spelling nut so that did get me a little, but the way you explain concepts etc and the added pieces about how to see what arguments are available are *fantastic*. I'm hooked..
Thank you for the tutorial, it was very helpful. I have a question. If the item I am trying to merge is a QR code, what would elType be and how would you code that? The QR codes would be generated in the spreadsheet using the google API. Thanks.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial. You are a very patient teacher. Being able to stop and start umpteen times to see what you actually did was great. I managed to go, in one day, from being a complete Google Spreadsheets novice to the Team Geek able to turn shedloads of data into usable reports. One glitch I couldn't manage to solve: when putting the date '26/10/2021' from a spreadsheet via a template into a report, it comes out as 'Tue Oct 26 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)'. I've done all the obvious stuff like format the cells in the spreadsheet but it still comes over with the hours and all the unnecessary information. Is there something I should know or another tutorial I need to look at to sort this? Thanks.
Your videos really improve my productivity and makes my life easier. I'm curious, how do you know so much about this? This is not a very popular topic, I wasn't even sure where to find the documentation
You can actually find all these methods in Google Scripts Documentation (click on the help button on GS UI). I think you might find it surprising because you come from the spreadsheets world or something like that, but it's actually quite simple and popular to create these types of functions, just search for Google Scripts in StackOverflow
How would you place an item where the table has some empty cells, e.g. if I am making a script from a cell where I have sales document, with the source worksheet i have columns named after a product and rows with different branches, some branches might not sell certain items from the table. how can I make the script to add on the mail merge with only the products that has sales value on it
Thank you for being so helpful; the explanation is straightforward to understand. If I want to send Bulk emails with this pre-made template, how do I do that? Thank you
When I copy a multi-level list (LIST_ITEM's) and would like to add some level in the final doc, the formatting is lost. How can I copy a list AND keep the format in the final doc when the user edits the list?
Thank you! Super helpful. Two questions I hope you can help with: 1) If I have images in a cell in a sheet and want to merge them into the doc, how would I go about doing this? 2) I need to format dates that get merged into the doc from the spreadsheet. Any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks again!
Hi. Works perfect, very explicit method. Q: I have inserted an image in a cell, then, how could i do If i want that image in my final document ? Regards.
Hello, thanks for the great lessons! Do you have a tutorial how to create invoices generated with data from a Google Sheet and based on Google Docs template, and after the generation in PDF to send the invoices directly to the customers?
Thank for all. great video. but can we do it with some image in the sheet base? maybe in one column we have image that we want to changed in the docs so i can send in a email with the fuction replace in append paragraph or replace with hmtl ?
Thanks so much for this useful demo. It worked brilliantly! Is there a way to 'getTables' along with their contents? My Template document contains a table with a complex layout. Is that hard to handle?
Hi This is very helpful for collecting applications forms,I have a question though. One of my columns is Image link from Google drive. Is it possible to make that image show on google doc?
Can you tell me what the inside of { } is known as. I want my responses to be blue but do not know how to reference them in the code to ensure that all entries are blue instead of black (blue is for legal, black is for the dead, red is for the living and purple is Royalty)
It's a nice classes.. I wanna learn one thing, in the nail merge how to print the sheets instead of creating the documents.. in the MS office it is available, but in Google sheet we have this limitations. Pls kindly assist
I used this method to mail merge a report that I am running daily. Is there a way to add a function that will duplicate the google, rename it and open the duplicated Doc?
This is great, wluld you please help us take this further and hook this to email script so it sends out from a list of associated email addresses in the spreadsheet? Thanks Alex
my template has a letter on the 1st page only (the whole template has 2 pages), ive replicated your tutorial and it works but the header is not copied :( also ive noticed that for the numbered lists (instead of bullet points), my problem is the number lists continues from one copy to the next so my last copy has numbered lists starting from 50. instead of 1.
Cool video! But i wonder. Is it possible that if a certain cell has value X then copy cel [0][1][2][3][4] If it has value Y then copy cell [10], [11],[12],[13] and if cell has value Z then copy cells [5],[6],[7],[8],[9]
I am trying to do the same but with a background image in the template Doc. It throws the error service unavilable. How can i merge docs with background images?
I am using a 40-col sheet with several hudred rows. I can't get far past 10 rows before the execution times out. A whopping 6 mins! Is there a way to do this so that replacetext isnt running a factorial search? Like hold body[i] on the side while iterating through data[i]. and then appending all the body[i]s to each other.
it's a great job. I have some problem in applying number and table. how can i restrat the number for each page break since this video use list_item. then how can i apply table in the final document? thanks
That helps us create a Google Doc with separate pages. Can you finish it out and tell us how to automate sending each separate page as a separate email?
Thank you for the video! I am running into an error (TypeError: Cannot call method "forEach" of undefined. (line 25, file "Code")) Any advice as to how to fix this? Thanks!
Hi Guru and beyond of Apps Script guy! Sir how do we replace links with pictures and let the google do the backend job for pasting pictures to google docs
Great tutorial. Is there a way to select from multiple of templates based on the contents of a cell? for example if a cell says "x" use template "x", but if a cell says "y" use template "y" etc?
@@guruslakkimar12 I have created a copy function which works: //copy doc function copyContentDoc(filename=null) { var sourceDoc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody(); if(filename === null){ filename = 'Kopie van_'+DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getName(); } var targetDoc = DocumentApp.create(filename); var totalElements = sourceDoc.getNumChildren(); for( var j = 0; j < totalElements; ++j ) { var targetBody = targetDoc.getBody(); var element = sourceDoc.getChild(j).copy(); var type = element.getType(); var attributes = element.getAttributes(); if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.PARAGRAPH ){ targetBody.appendParagraph(element); } else if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.TABLE){ targetBody.appendTable(element).setAttributes(attributes); } else if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.LIST_ITEM){ targetBody.appendListItem(element).setAttributes(attributes); } else if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.PAGE_BREAK){ targetBody.appendPageBreak(element).setAttributes(attributes); } else if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.HEADER_SECTION){ targetDoc.addHeader().setText(element).setAttributes(attributes); } else if( type == DocumentApp.ElementType.FOOTER_SECTION){ targetDoc.addFooter().setText(element).setAttributes(attributes); } // ...add other conditions of DocumentApp.ElementType } targetDoc.saveAndClose(); return true; }
Thank you SO MUCH for your excellent video! I built a mail merge (based on your video) two years ago and it has been working spectacularly .... until yesterday. Now (suddenly) it is throwing an error message: " Error Service Documents failed while accessing document with id xxxxxxx..... " It does not indicate a line or any other information. I have tried running it from a different user - same. I have tried using a different doc with a different id - same. I do not understand why [suddenly] it would not work. Please advise if possible! Again, THANK YOU!!
Google Docs currently won't support envelope sizes, so I made a template in Presentations which is A7. Any way I could do a mail merge from Sheets to Presentations?
Could you tell me whats happening if i put a table in the template? The script sees that as a paragraph too, so its not like at the ListItem. How can i make work this template with a table in the doc?
Great Video!! How would I translate that into Labels? I get the {name}, Etc, Etc.... but how would I format that into the final spaced as labels? For instance, could I upload a label template (word) into google drive and use this to translate INTO the word doc??
I had the same questions and after a lot of tinkering, got it to work. You need to append a Table to the final doc first and pass it to the mailMerge function. Then, inside the mailMerge function (before the forEach statement), you append a row to the table and set the row's minimum height to the height of your label. You also append a cell to the row. Then, inside the forEach statement, append the mail merge data (from this tutorial) to the cell. In my case, I wanted two columns of labels, so in the final doc, I manually set it to be two columns. I couldn't find a way do do that with Google Scripts, but fortunately, formatting it to two columns works just great. The table cell fills the entire width of the column (or document if you don't make columns). Finally, because a table has to have a paragraph before it, it seems to mess up the first column of labels on the first page. I was able to fix this by using google scripts to set the final document body font to size 1 and the document spacing to .06. You can't tell the paragraph is there and my labels work great! Lifesaver for my own project and this tutorial got me started! Thanks!
