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se...@google.com
se...@google.com
Hello,
Thank you for reporting this feature request.
In order to not misunderstand it, you want to be able to insert into a document
Also, what would be your benefit of having this implemented?
Thank you!
da...@66degrees.com
I would also like to make this request to insert new smart chips into Google Docs using both the API and Apps Script functions.
se...@google.com
Hi,
What would also be the benefit for you of having this feature implemented?
Regards.
ma...@gmail.com
That works enable me to insert smart chips into a Google doc which I'm
generating via Google sheets alp script.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 09:18 <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:
generating via Google sheets alp script.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 09:18 <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:
se...@google.com
Hi,
What would be the impact for you in terms of costs, employee productivity, if any, of having this feature implemented?
Regards.
ma...@gmail.com
Not sure about why this would matter in this case, but: if it is not
automated, someone would need to go into the generated documents one by one
and replace the dates with the smart chips.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 09:52 <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:
automated, someone would need to go into the generated documents one by one
and replace the dates with the smart chips.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 09:52 <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:
se...@google.com
Hello,
Thank you for your answers, I have forwarded this Feature Request internally.
Regards.
ba...@gcsaz.org
I would also like the ability to get the information from a smart/people chip in google sheets.
With the addition of smart chips some shared users will update existing documents with email addresses to be smart chips. If an existing script needed that cell to be an email address, we lose this. Adding chip edit options would give us a way to work through the auto-change to chips issues.
With the addition of smart chips some shared users will update existing documents with email addresses to be smart chips. If an existing script needed that cell to be an email address, we lose this. Adding chip edit options would give us a way to work through the auto-change to chips issues.
gr...@ccl-france.org
I would like to thumbsup this idea as I'm looking for a way to insert Chips in Google Docs that refers to a specific row (or at least a document) in Google Sheets from App Script. Thanks :)
an...@airbus.com
I share the same need as made in previous comments. I have people chips in docs and sheets and would like to programmatically retrieve email addresses and info from the chip. Today it seems this is not possible so I must keep the cell as an email address instead 😩
bj...@educ.goteborg.se
I share the same need as made in previous comments.
cy...@wayfair.com
I'm also looking into having this feature made as well. I have a library of scripts that automated document creation based on calendar events, which would benefit greatly if the smart chips could be dynamically add via app script, rather than manually updated.
ti...@gmail.com
This feature will save me hours of labor company wide
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
Spent about an hour trying to figure out how to do this. I can get the handle to the smart chip object inside the paragraph, but can't touch it (other than removing). Essentially, all we need is a "setDate" method for the date smart chip object, or appendDate in the paragraph object (or appendPerson etc) . Shouldn't be that difficult to implement, and can mean the world to anyone trying to automate a document that contains smart chips.
mr...@redhat.com
+1 Would love to be able to pull name / email etc.. from a smart chip to use in a google script.
pm...@portageps.org
+1 Yes, please. Adding, removing, updating a chip or series of chips within a sheet or doc would be a game changer! I could condense a lot of data into one chip which would improve data entry as well as the adoption of chip-use by our teams.
en...@theclosetscompany.com
This feature will also benefit myself, where I have a spreadsheet that has links to a lot of PDF files (Every row has a link, built with SpreadsheetApp....setRichTextValue()); when hovering over these links, my boss, and co-workers need to double check if the name they are hovering over is the correct/matching one, but if I could create these links inside a file Chip, it'd be more organized: while hovering over a Chip, the Chip changes color, and opens the link preview. Regular links (as in SpreadsheetApp....setRichTextValue()), don't change color when hovering over them.
I don't use this spreadsheet myself, I just create and maintain the the scripts. If I could make it more organized, it'd be awesome!
I don't use this spreadsheet myself, I just create and maintain the the scripts. If I could make it more organized, it'd be awesome!
de...@andrew.cmu.edu
I'd like to add my use case here:
My team recently started using the "Review Tracker" table template in our design documents (this is a Google table template - not 3p). This comes with a pretty drop-down menu for the review status, that is made of smart chips. It's beautiful - people use it - thank you!
I'm attempting to write a script to scan our team drive for docs containing this review table, compile a list of pending reviews (anything != "Approved"), and send a nagging email to readers who need to take some action. It's currently a tedious manual process.
My team recently started using the "Review Tracker" table template in our design documents (this is a Google table template - not 3p). This comes with a pretty drop-down menu for the review status, that is made of smart chips. It's beautiful - people use it - thank you!
I'm attempting to write a script to scan our team drive for docs containing this review table, compile a list of pending reviews (anything != "Approved"), and send a nagging email to readers who need to take some action. It's currently a tedious manual process.
sa...@gmail.com
+1 I would love this too cause i want to verify if a given email is valid based on people chip
ar...@cgg.be
Yes please! At the moment this has to be done manually.
Also, the data (eg dropdown) from the chips cannot be read from google docs via gapps
Also, the data (eg dropdown) from the chips cannot be read from google docs via gapps
cg...@gmail.com
+1 to the use case! I'm generating many text documents that would need each many dropdowns to capture some standardized information; right now, I'd need to send the text document with a spreadsheet with that logic embedded, which is very inconvenient. Having everything inside the same text document (including dropdowns) would save a lot of time and effort for my team. Thank you for reading :)
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
+1
os...@gmail.com
It would very helpful to have this feature!
ja...@gmail.com
+1 for this feature. My use case:
I have a list of items and owners (stored as Person SmartChips), and I want to easily email all the owners.
Currently, if copy/paste the Person SmartChips into the To: field in Gmail, it does not populate the email address. If I could extract the email address from the SmartChip, I could create a separate column that contained the email address, and use that to populate my email To: line.
I have a list of items and owners (stored as Person SmartChips), and I want to easily email all the owners.
Currently, if copy/paste the Person SmartChips into the To: field in Gmail, it does not populate the email address. If I could extract the email address from the SmartChip, I could create a separate column that contained the email address, and use that to populate my email To: line.
jo...@gmail.com
Love it!
ja...@portant.co
+1 to this use case. We would love to be able to edit existing Smart Chips with documents (including drop down lists)
ch...@elevenwriting.com
+1 This would be super useful, especially for dropdown SmartChips!
hw...@gmail.com
This would help if added to the general Doc API, right now it returns a UTF-16 "\uE907" for the Date Chip but you can't get the value of the date.
gi...@appletreeinstitute.org
+1 We have many authors, copy editors, and external reviewers working on document templates at various stages. We would like to use a dropdown to manage the current status, but would like to use a centralized Apps Script to automatically track their status.
Alternatively, the ability to parse all of these (Person, Date, RichLink, Dropdown) as text within an Apps Script Paragraph by default would be great too. It would be nice to have some tag, such as Logger.log(paragraph.getText()) returning "Today is <<Jan 5, 2022>>", where Jan 5, 2022 is the visible text in the document.
Alternatively, the ability to parse all of these (Person, Date, RichLink, Dropdown) as text within an Apps Script Paragraph by default would be great too. It would be nice to have some tag, such as Logger.log(paragraph.getText()) returning "Today is <<Jan 5, 2022>>", where Jan 5, 2022 is the visible text in the document.
br...@gmail.com
+1
xa...@nouvellesimages.xyz
+1
is...@google.com
br...@lovejustice.ngo
As others have posted, I am also affected by getting a unicode character in place of the date chip and not being able to extract the date. I'm trying to work around it by extracting the same document as plain text, but downloading and parsing the whole document in a different way just for the date is a huge pain.
lo...@gmail.com
+1
ka...@a-send.cloud
I would also very much like this feature. It is kind of weird having elements that are not accessible and editable programmatically in the Doc.
ma...@nodatanobusiness.com
I would love this feature too.
We provide functions that can return many different types of data, among which dates, g maps places, etc.
It would be great to have these datapoints formatted with a smart canvas
We provide functions that can return many different types of data, among which dates, g maps places, etc.
It would be great to have these datapoints formatted with a smart canvas
ji...@snyk.io
+1 to this request. I'm automating our workflows and the Smart Chips make the Google Sheet easy to read and easy for users of the sheet to add people. But I need the email address to create & assign tasks in another app. It would be nice to be able to just extract the email address from the smart chip field via built-in functions, scripts, etc.
For now, users have to type the email address themselves, so it's likely they'll either mistype an email address, or they'll @ someone, creating a smart chip and lose the email address. This will result in extra manual work later as the Tasks will not have correct assignees.
For now, users have to type the email address themselves, so it's likely they'll either mistype an email address, or they'll @ someone, creating a smart chip and lose the email address. This will result in extra manual work later as the Tasks will not have correct assignees.
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
+1. This would be great if I can retrieve the smartchips' values programmatically.
ci...@windowdressers.org
In my experience, you CAN RETRIEVE richlink information (but you CAN'T CREATE richlinks currently)
eg to extract URL from smartchip in object elemToAnalyze"
var rngElementFound = elemToAnalyze.findElement(DocumentApp.ElementType.RICH_LINK);
if (rngElementFound) {
let richlinkFound = rngElementFound.getElement();
let strDriveUrl = richlinkFound.getUrl();
}
eg to extract URL from smartchip in object elemToAnalyze"
var rngElementFound = elemToAnalyze.findElement(DocumentApp.ElementType.RICH_LINK);
if (rngElementFound) {
let richlinkFound = rngElementFound.getElement();
let strDriveUrl = richlinkFound.getUrl();
}
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
Wow, the support triage here is very poor. It makes me want to not use Google Docs for my application. You have to justify adding API support for the features of Google Docs? Really? I understand that of course a new feature can ship and maybe API access takes an extra few months to iron out the bugs and open up, so it's not there on day one, but the idea that users need to beg for API access is very bizarre. That it still hasn't come a full year later makes me think that Google is not a reliable partner and I should look elsewhere for a realtime collaboration backend for my company's CMS, since this doesn't appear to be on the roadmap, and my users are just going to be confused about why we can't properly import the documents they create.
de...@andrew.cmu.edu
That's not a very helpful comment in the context of a bug report. Remember that there are humans on the other end of the support triage.
sa...@homemedix.in
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om...@meetwise.ai
Are there any updates?
sh...@gmail.com
Because of this problem, my Google Doc add-on needs to instruct users how to workaround this problem -- that is how they can convert the link my app creates into a SmartChip.
sc...@acme.vc
+1 Now exploring alternatives to Google Docs to solve for this limitation
ge...@gmail.com
+1
cw...@redhat.com
+1 - need to be able to programmatically interact with people chips
di...@goldengate-cpta.com
I would love this feature as well. It would create a much more appealing google doc, google spreadsheet if I was able to automatically convert all URLs, dates, emails, etc to a smart chip. It would improve readability greatly and save a lot of time I suspect.
sc...@acme.vc
+1 to enhance user experience and interop across google suite.
di...@valeo.com
+1 also
li...@airbus.com
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ha...@fastly.com
+ 1 smartchips are great but would be better with the functionalities mentioned here!
m....@gmail.com
+1
da...@gmail.com
I strongly believe that smart chips and their related features such as building blocks are of an amazing usability in Docs and Sheets, it's shocking that they cannot be created programatically more than one year since this Feature Request has been opened. I'd love to see it eventually implemented
po...@sgcommunities.com
Any update on this? This would be extremely useful for our business, as we use apps script to automate a lot of things, and we use smart chips regularly.
tr...@netflix.com
dr...@gmail.com
This is a step in the right direction! Finally!
ja...@hiviewsolutions.com
+1
jp...@google.com
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
This would be extremely helpful for creating rich documents in an automated way!
br...@gmail.com
Interested! +1
ke...@aspirepublicschools.org
I want to take an input array of checklist items along with a template to quickly create team checklist in a Google Doc. Of particular importance is allowing the drop down items to be easily customized in the script rather than having to define each one by hand. Further, automation from the api ensures consistency in the document better than copy and paste.
jp...@google.com
ga...@wally.ai
Plus 1 - With all the new features added to Google Docs, the API feels incomplete without the ability to create these paragraph elements.
dr...@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing this added to the API.
c....@lifelion.de
+1
th...@decathlon.com
+ 1
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
+1
pa...@gmail.com
+1 for the ability of list/enumerate document "Variable Smart Chip" and ability of change the content of one variable
[Deleted User] <[Deleted User]>
i also need to create smart chips in a Google Sheet
du...@gmail.com
Being able to manage smart chips from code is a must!
sa...@getbring.com
+1
an...@pubgenius.io
+1
om...@pwc.com
I want to be able to convert email addresses to smart chips using appscript. This will save time rather than doing it manually.
cs...@sofi.org
I use google sheets for project management and smart chips are great for assigning ownership. However, when I email owners I cannot copy and paste smart chips into the "to" field in gmail. This consumes hours of my time a week. Please add a function to convert a smart chip to an email, or a way to copy emails from smart chips in a way that can be easily pasted into gmail.
jo...@nesta.org.uk
Come on google, variables in smart chips are such an obvious target for an api.
ko...@gmail.com
yes i have a
Ar...@ahschools.us
+1 I want to be able to convert email addresses to smart chips using appscript. This will save time rather than doing it manually.
ls...@wellesley.edu
+1 I'm trying to retrieve extended location data out of the our people chips, which data extraction through sheets does not currently support, so I tried to use App Script but found that getting a cell value with a people chip in it just returns the string name of the people chip.
ca...@swcsd.us
This feature will help my team and I build template documents for Individualized Education Plans. I am a high school special education teacher.
el...@bluerobotics.com
I also need this, is there any updates? It would save my company many hours of work replacing these links manually.
gh...@themarshallproject.org
My team uses Google Docs for meeting agendas. Smart chips for things like the date and links to previous agenda docs add visual cues to aspects of the document that are consistent but parameterized between different meetings. They also make it easy to manually update.
We are developing some integration with Slack to automate the creation of new agenda documents and it would be great to be able to update the chips programmatically when creating a new document from a template.
We are developing some integration with Slack to automate the creation of new agenda documents and it would be great to be able to update the chips programmatically when creating a new document from a template.
ad...@live.co.uk
+1
jo...@banksinarmas.com
My company need this feature, otherwise need to update row one by one
re...@fligno.com
+1
ju...@fanfinity.agency
would also love to see this feature!
jb...@hubspot.com
Would love to have this feature as well - we need to work out of Google docs for some processes and this functionality works for Google sheets but for some reason not in Docs so it seems like it shouldn't be a challenge to implement.
nm...@gmail.com
+1
er...@gmail.com
Is there any workaround for reading values of dropdowns in gdocs? I'm trying to create a python script for automation of reports, but have no idea, how to do this, because every time, when i try to retrieve content of google doc, in place of dropdown i see just string "\ue907". Feature from this thread would be a great addition to docs
ke...@duplocloud.net
Been searching in vain for a workaround, there is none. So one would have to manually update hundreds of generated rows instead.
ey...@eifo.dev
Doc Variables should be accessible from API and differentiated from ordinary text, a major benefit i can think of this is that it will allow dynamic contracting with the usage of appscripts, a web app script that will update a google doc contract. This can currently be done without variables by running replaceText but then you have to use multiple placeholders as the replaced text can no longer be searched for after there is one change. It would be great to have an API for replaceVariable so that you do not have to manage multiple placeholders which becomes very awkward. Currenly to bypass this restrictions I use google apis in order to delete and create a new copy from template everytime the contract params change but it's too many api calls. This could benefit the new google esignature functionality.
is...@themarshallproject.org
I was astonished to discover that I can't read the value of a dropdown via the API. This really limits the value that google docs can provide to my organizations workflows.
ga...@skyrider.net
Need to be able to read and write to the SmartChips type "Variable" via Apps Script. Without that feature, SmartChips are DumbChips and should be renamed until they are smart! This is a half-baked feature!
The project head should be ashamed for releasing half-baked features. Until we can access it via the API it should not be released.
Thanks
The project head should be ashamed for releasing half-baked features. Until we can access it via the API it should not be released.
Thanks
wi...@stripe.com
++ Really annoying that I need to additionally filter for  currently when parsing documents and have no way to programmatically read/write these values when managing documents.
om...@gmail.com
+
vo...@airbus.com
It is really frustrating that google deploys again and again new features for the GUI and forget the API. We need such get/set smart chip methods. Many thanks in advance!
wa...@gmail.com
+1
ch...@ranchodelreymhe.com
+1 really need access to read/write of smart chips in app sheet.
gi...@gmail.com
+1
It would be great to programmatically create Smart Chips with Apps Script. Use case, converting rows from Sheets into Docs templates which have smart chips.
It would be great to programmatically create Smart Chips with Apps Script. Use case, converting rows from Sheets into Docs templates which have smart chips.
n7...@ecsteam.org
+1 Agreed! Smart chips would be Super useful.
ni...@uber.com
+1
be...@gmail.com
+1
mi...@google.com
bl...@google.com
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pe...@ovanova.co
+1
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jp...@google.com
From the product team:
Would be really useful to understand at least a few specific use cases businesses might have for building automation on top of Smart Chips. Any examples?
Please share here or at
Description
A short description of the request:
I would like to be able to create and insert smart chips of the types:
into a document. From the docs, it seems like it is only possible to read values from an existing smart chip.
How can one create a new smart chip (e.g. Date), and insert it into the doc?
What is the purpose of this new feature?
Enables inserting smart chips into the doc to make more meaningful doc and sheet extensions.