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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 132, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy soccer, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been preparing for a month of getting absolutely nothing done during the World Cup. […]

Originally written for bulldo.gs — republished here with the canonical link pointing home. I want to enable the V8 runtime on an existing Apps Script project so I can use modern JavaScript, but I am worried about breaking things that are already working. // appsscript.json — set runtimeVersion to enable V8 // Rollback: change V8 back to DEPRECATED_ES5 { " timeZone " : " America/New_York " , " dependencies " : {}, " exceptionLogging " : " STACKDRIVER " , " runtimeVersion " : " V8 " } // Code.gs — safe V8-compatible replacement for a common Rhino pattern // Rhino allowed: for each (var item in collection) {} // V8 requires standard for...of instead function listSheetNames () { var ss = SpreadsheetApp . getActiveSpreadsheet (); var names = []; var sheets = ss . getSheets (); for ( var i = 0 ; i < sheets . length ; i ++ ) { names . push ( sheets [ i ]. getName ()); } Logger . log ( names . join ( ' , ' )); } The one-line change and why it is a project-wide bomb Open the Apps Script editor, click Project Settings (the gear icon), and check "Show appsscript.json manifest file in editor." Then open that file and change "runtimeVersion": "DEPRECATED_ES5" to "runtimeVersion": "V8" . Save. That is the entire migration from a settings standpoint. What catches people off guard is the failure mode. V8 parses every .gs file in the project as a unit before running anything. One Rhino-only statement — a for each loop, a __iterator__ method, a Date.prototype.getYear call in an otherwise untouched utility file — causes a syntax or runtime error that prevents the whole script from initializing. Not just the file that contains the bad line. Every function, every trigger, the entire project goes dark. The first time I hit this it took me twenty minutes to figure out why a completely unrelated trigger had stopped firing. The error message pointed at the Rhino syntax in a helper file I had not touched in two years. V8 does not isolate the damage; it fails at parse time, before any executi

Originally written for bulldo.gs — republished here with the canonical link pointing home. I'm running a script that processes a large spreadsheet and it keeps dying with "Exceeded maximum execution time" before it finishes. // Checkpoint-resume pattern for long-running sheet jobs function processInBatches () { var props = PropertiesService . getScriptProperties (); var startRow = parseInt ( props . getProperty ( ' lastRow ' ) || ' 2 ' , 10 ); var sheet = SpreadsheetApp . getActiveSpreadsheet (). getActiveSheet (); var lastDataRow = sheet . getLastRow (); var BATCH = 200 ; var SAFE_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000 ; var started = Date . now (); var endRow = Math . min ( startRow + BATCH - 1 , lastDataRow ); var data = sheet . getRange ( startRow , 1 , endRow - startRow + 1 , 5 ). getValues (); for ( var i = 0 ; i < data . length ; i ++ ) { if ( Date . now () - started > SAFE_MS ) { props . setProperty ( ' lastRow ' , String ( startRow + i )); return ; } // process data[i] here } if ( endRow >= lastDataRow ) { props . deleteProperty ( ' lastRow ' ); deleteTrigger_ (); } else { props . setProperty ( ' lastRow ' , String ( endRow + 1 )); } } The 6-minute wall is per-execution, not per-task Apps Script enforces a hard 6-minute execution time limit per run, regardless of whether you're on a free account or a Workspace account (which bumps the limit to 30 minutes, but the same cliff exists). The error doesn't mean your logic is wrong; it means one continuous call to your function took too long. The fix is to stop thinking of your job as a single execution and start thinking of it as a pipeline of short runs. The first time I hit this, I wasted an afternoon trying to speed up the loop. Marginal gains didn't move the needle because the data volume was the real problem — 4,000 rows at one Sheets API call per row will always breach 6 minutes. The correct frame is: how do I save where I stopped and pick up there next run? Saving and restoring a cursor with PropertiesService PropertiesServic

Originally written for bulldo.gs — republished here with the canonical link pointing home. I want to programmatically combine several Google Docs into one file without losing tables or list formatting. // Merges all source docs into destDocId, in order. // Run from the Apps Script editor; no triggers needed. function mergeDocs () { var sourceIds = [ ' DOC_ID_ONE ' , ' DOC_ID_TWO ' , ' DOC_ID_THREE ' ]; var dest = DocumentApp . openById ( ' DEST_DOC_ID ' ). getBody (); for ( var i = 0 ; i < sourceIds . length ; i ++ ) { var srcBody = DocumentApp . openById ( sourceIds [ i ]). getBody (); var total = srcBody . getNumChildren (); for ( var j = 0 ; j < total ; j ++ ) { var el = srcBody . getChild ( j ); var type = el . getType (); if ( type === DocumentApp . ElementType . PARAGRAPH ) { dest . appendParagraph ( el . asParagraph (). copy ()); } else if ( type === DocumentApp . ElementType . TABLE ) { dest . appendTable ( el . asTable (). copy ()); } else if ( type === DocumentApp . ElementType . LIST_ITEM ) { dest . appendListItem ( el . asListItem (). copy ()); } } } } Why there is no single appendElement call The Document service in Apps Script does not expose a generic appendElement method on Body . Every element type has its own typed append method: appendParagraph , appendTable , appendListItem , and so on. That means a merge loop that ignores element types will throw TypeError: el.copy is not a function the moment it hits a table, because you would be passing an Element where the API expects a Table . The fix is to call getType() on each child element and switch on DocumentApp.ElementType . The type enum values are strings like PARAGRAPH , TABLE , LIST_ITEM , INLINE_IMAGE , and HORIZONTAL_RULE . In practice the first three account for almost all real document content. The code above handles those three and silently skips anything else (images, rules) rather than crashing the entire merge. Getting the doc IDs and running the script The ID for any Google Doc is the lo