How can I disable the download from all the editors of the sheet. The data is confidential and I don't want employees (who are editors) to download the sheet.
I have enabled the following as well
Prevent editors from changing access and adding new people
Disable options to download, print, and copy for commenters and viewers
I Have put protected sheets only accessible to owner of the sheet and disable for all the other editors
However, the editors can still download the google sheet (csv and other formats)
Is there a way we can restrict any downloads?
Thanks
You did correct:
But If your employees want to download your data, they will do it, here are few basic ways:
Make screenshots and send to personal emails or store on pendrive
Make photos with phones, drones, telescopes
Write on paper, sole boot
Memorize..
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I have build an online Google spreadsheet. That spreadsheet accessed 6 person everyday.
I made 5 sheets in my spreadsheet Meals, Marketing, Contribution, Cakculator and Notes
I want to protect these sheet from other user. I gave limited area to protect my data. I have done that. But unable to protect my sheet options.
See screenshot:
Delete, Hide, Rename, Duplicate, Copy to.. options should access only owner who is created this spreadsheet. Can you Please tell me how to do that?
As you are the owner the options will always appear for you. If you set the protections and share the file then open it with another account or sing out and open it and you should see the protections are in place.
I uploaded a table from Spreadsheet to BigQuery using the built-in UI.
It turns out that only people with access to the Gsheet can run queries using the new table.
Is there a way to define a general option to allow everyone to run queries on this new table?
Otherwise I need to run a Select * from and save a new table each time or think of sharing the spreadsheet with everyone in the company.
You could share dataset with specific people.
Also what's the difference between "share the table with everyone" VS. "share the spreadsheet with everyone with readonly permission"?
In a domain context you can have a document readable by everyone in your domain without them getting notified or seeing it popup in their Google Drive. I believe you just need to click on Get shareable link in the share dialog to do that.
I agree to Xuejian that there's little difference in sharing a dataset or a sharing a spreadsheet.
I can't seem to find information on how to print files through google app script.
I found an answer in this website but it doesn't work, I think it's because it's 3 years old and google script has had some changes.
google app script print button
You can't print directly from GAS (I've searched far and wide), as described in the post that you linked. However it is possible to create a downloadable document with the desired content and then pass that blob off to the client for downloading (depending on wether you're still working in GAS or a web app environment).
Personally, I felt that it was a headache to deal with how each browser deals with downloading blobs. Therefore I usually go one of these two routes: provide a public downloadable link from the drive of the owner of the script and then push it to the user to download, OR just email the document to the user and let their email client handle downloading the blob.
Alternatively, if this is an add-on, you can make it so that the document is downloaded directly to the users own drive and just inform them where the document will be located.
How would you tackle the following problem, using Google Sheets:
User A and B bot need to submit an input (some text) to a shared sheet. The input must be hidden from the other user until both have submitted. Both users can change the input until the reveal, but not afterwards. Think of it as simultaneous action selection, except it's on different time zones so we can't just shout one two three go.
Currently, we are using salted hashes. That is inefficient and time consuming. I'd like to automate it. However, I don't know of any tool inside Google Sheets that allows you to hide inputs from other users under certain conditions, or anything that locks the input after both submit either (the submission shouldn't be tampered with unless both users agree, unless it's done before the other user submits).
This might need to be done with external coding, and I'm up to that (although I currently have no idea how to integrate it in google sheets). However I have never programmed something that read input from anything other than a terminal (or a txt file that one time it was required in class) so please provide some reference for that too. :)
Many thanks in advance!
Use a Google Form as the input tool. Then after both users have sent the input, share the spreadsheet with them. This could be done manually or with Google Apps Script.
References
Create a survey using Google Forms - Docs editors Help
Extend Google Docs, Sheets, and Forms with Apps Script - Docs editors help
I want to use Google spreadsheets to store data online so multiple people can enter and maintain data, then publish or export (csv, xls, ods) the sheet for their application. What is the easiest way to process the sheet? If the data can be accessed as a link the updates could be immediately reflected in the client's app.
This article Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets discusses using Google spreadsheets as an application platform.
It already has features that allow you to share the spreadsheet with multiple editors, as well as the ability to define forms that you can invite people to fill out who's results will be entered into the spreadsheet as a row.
Just in case its still vaguely of interest 5 months later, there is a SQL-like wrapper language for Google Spreadsheets at:
http://gqlx.twyst.co.za
Its very much an alpha release - but maybe its of some use or perhaps the code could give you some ideas.
I think if I am clear on your requirements, you want to store your data online in a Google Spreadsheet where multiple people can access that right? Then you want an app to use that data? Correct me if I am wrong.
It is possible to have Google spreadsheet as a database and the client app can directly access that data through APIs - spreadsheet APIs . If you want a simple link where people can go and update - you can also have a web app using google apps scripting. very simple to use and would solve your purpose too , why to export your data to ods, xls, csv, make your app directly over Google Spreadsheet. Would be maintainable too.