Category: Google Docs

         I’m thinking of trying to do an NZ map of regions where cases are. I’m using link to Wikipedia 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand page for data on region data. I have been looking for polylines for these regions and also centroids for region polylines. No luck so far with centroids but I

        Somewhere I came across Standard Library but best searched for under StdLib. I signed up for it and found a couple of videos. It looked like magic and required serious coding, so I put it down at the time. I have been receiving regular “onboarding” emails (Seems pretty common and irritating when you sign up

        In the last article I tried linking to my VPS MySQL & PostGres databases and couldn’t. On a test DB site I could connect but to maintain the free DB I needed to log in each week, so I decided not to proceed with that. So, this time around I’m going to try and use

        I have played with Power BI and Data Studio (DS) is Google’s equivalent, and its Free. Since I’ve been playing with GlideApps I have been working in the Google Docs environment with Sheets and Google App Scripts (GAS) and find the Google environment is versatile and has lots of features. An extension of learning to

        I saw this great YouTube video about QR Attendance Using Google Drive with QR Codes Generator Add-ons: I thought it was a great workflow and also an elegant solution. The autoresponse from scanning the QR code to fill out the form. How easy is that? Then I got to thinking how I’d use it. I

         I was looking at the GlideApps showcase and the Bogdan Popa created a News App. In it he uses IMPORTXML in Google Sheets to pull in web data that he filters to different tables. A nice app. I started thinking about what other import formulas does Google Sheets have, I know it has GOOGLEFINANCE

        Following on from the 2 previous videos relating to this app, after a task has been completed, an email can be sent to the project manager, and others via the app to advise of its completion. So we need to take this item off the TO DO list and move it to another list, and

        Developing and exploring the GlideApp into different areas has been fun and interesting. This particular app was for someone i worked with who also sells honey with a group of people, and one location is at an outdoor market stall. I thought it would be handy for people who were not prepared to buy immediately

        After the Art Gallery App Free GlideApp for developing Art Gallery translation mobile app I wanted to extend it to a Museum app. As it does not take too much time to mock up an app I thought a specific app targeted at a specific Museum would capture more attention than if you were to

        Further to HopOnHopOff (HOHO) for bus tour I could see that this idea could be extended to other instances like Museums, Art Galleries and events. A way of extending the information about a specific subject by translating it into different languages, thereby allowing people to engage more with the subject at hand. So, my initial