Hull Google Sheets Importer

Developing

• Fork
• Install

yarn
yarn run start:dev # starts in dev mode with nodemon

Quick start on AppScript

Most of the import logic and data formatting is running inside of the Google Sheet itelf as a set of AppScript functions.

Developing on the connector happens mostly in Google's script editor, working on the app-script/Code.gs.

You can follow this QuickStart on Google developers doc to setup a new Google Sheet for development :

https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/editors/docs/quickstart/translate

Google developers Add-ons documentation is also a good starting point to understand the development environment and resources on the AppScript APIs for Google Sheets :

https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/overview

To access the current processes being run by the script, while you are in the script editor, you can hit the view / executions menu. You will be able to manage the processes in that place. Note that this script is local, and you won't be able to access all the processes being run on the actual script app registered by Hull. If you want to access this monitor dashboard, you will need the right credentials for the account that registered the app.

Connector UI

The UI exposed by the connector is implemented as a React app loaded in the Sidebar. The client side assets are referenced by the app-script/Sidebar.html layout but served by the connector itself.

The development flow is very similar to any other connector.

Connector server and UI

The connector also has a server side component that exposes ther following endpoints :

• /schema/fields exposes the list available attributes in the Organization. It is used in the UI to populate the select options in the columns mapper.

• /import is hit by the AppScript importRange method to perform the actual data import.

Local development flow

It involves :

• run the connector locally
• paste the content of the app-script folder in the script editor section of a new Google Sheet
• change the address of the static assets sourceUrl in the Code.gs file to point to your local server (need to find a way to make this more seamless)

Committing changes :

• Report the changes on the Code.gs and Sidebar.html files before committing change

Deploying

If the changes only involves the Connector's Server side code and/or UI, then it's the same flow as other connectors, no need to publish a new version on Google Marketplace.

If there are changes on the AppScript code, then you need to publish a new version of the add-on on the Google Marketplace.

• Connect as [email protected] and go to https://script.google.com
• Open the project called Hull Sheets importer
• Report the changes to the app-script files in the script editor
• Follow the publication instructions described here https://developers.google.com/gsuite/add-ons/how-tos/manage-addons in the section called Update your editor add-on