Princeton-CDH / pemm-scripts

scripts & tools for the Princeton Ethiopian Miracles of Mary project
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investigate implementing incipit lookup in google sheets #13

Closed rlskoeser closed 4 years ago

rlskoeser commented 4 years ago

investigation confirms that:

thatbudakguy commented 4 years ago

one notable consequence of this is that the implementation of the project will change from a "standalone script" to a "container-bound script", because this is a prerequisite for being able to manipulate the UI of a google sheet.

the major difference is:

see this link for more info on what bound scripts can do that standalone scripts cannot.

the implication for us is that you will no longer create new instances of the master data spreadsheet; instead you will create your own sheet and then "point" clasp at it and upload the code generated in this repo to install new tools/UI into that sheet. this can be done on sheets that already have data in them.

thatbudakguy commented 4 years ago

implementation now tracked on #16.