My first addon: draft mails in Gmail & events in Calendar

At my workplace 'project' names (names of dossiers) are anchors for automating tasks. They are used for merging, time tracking, (gmail)labels, folder names, file names, calendar events, emails etcetera.

My first addon is another way to use 'project' names in Google calendar to add an event and in Gmail to make a draft email. The 'project' names are stored in a Google spreadsheet and used in a dropdown menu in the addon. The same goes for specified event locations and event descriptions.

CardService Class SelectionInput want the input as an object.

function getObject(column,ssid,sheetname){
  
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById(ssid);
  var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(sheetname);
  var array = sheet.getRange(column + "1:" + column).getValues().map(function(row){return row[0]}).filter(function(row){return row!== ""}).sort();
  
  var object = {"key":""};
  
  for(var a=0;a<array.length;a++){
    object["key"+ a]=array[a];
  }
  return object;
}


function getWidgetDropDown(title,fieldname,object){

  var widget = CardService.newSelectionInput()
  .setType(CardService.SelectionInputType.DROPDOWN)
  .setTitle(title)
  .setFieldName(fieldname);
  
  for(var o in object){
    widget.addItem(object[o],object[o],false); 
  }
    
  return widget;
  
}

Other widgets I am using are the DateTimePicker and the TextButton. 

function getWidgetDateTimePicker(title,fieldname){
  
  var widget = CardService.newDateTimePicker()
  .setTitle(title)
  .setFieldName(fieldname);
  
}


function getWidgetTextButton(bgcolorrgb,text,functionname){
  
  var widget = CardService.newTextButton()
  .setTextButtonStyle(CardService.TextButtonStyle.FILLED)
  .setBackgroundColor(bgcolorrgb)
  .setText(text)
  .setOnClickAction(CardService.newAction().setFunctionName(functionname));
  
  return widget;
  
}

At last but not least the functions with which the addon card, the draft email and the event are created.

 

function buildCard(){
  
 var card=CardService.newCardBuilder();
  
 var widgetProjectName = getWidgetDropDown("Kies een zaaknaam","project_name",getObject("A",IDGMAKWRK(),"HLP_ZAAKNAMEN"));
 card.addSection(CardService.newCardSection().addWidget(widgetProjectName));

 var widgetDraftMail = getWidgetTextButton("#ff0000","Concept email","createDraftMail");
 card.addSection(CardService.newCardSection().addWidget(widgetDraftMail));
 
 
 var widgetEventStartDateTime = CardService.newDateTimePicker().setTitle("Kies startdatum").setFieldName("event_start");
 var widgetEventDuration = CardService.newTextInput().setTitle("Kies duur in minuten").setFieldName("event_duration"); 
 var widgetEventLocation = getWidgetDropDown("Kies een locatie","event_location",getObject("A",IDGMAKWRK(),"HLP_LOCATIE"));
 var widgetEventDescription = getWidgetDropDown("Kies een beschrijving","event_description",getObject("A",IDGMAKWRK(),"HLP_EVENT"));
 var widgetEvent = getWidgetTextButton("#ff0000","Afspraak","createEvent");
 card.addSection(CardService.newCardSection().addWidget(widgetEventStartDateTime).addWidget(widgetEventDuration).addWidget(widgetEventLocation).addWidget(widgetEventDescription).addWidget(widgetEvent)); 
 
 return card.build();
  
}


function createDraftMail(e){
  
  var projectName = e.formInput.project_name;
  
  if(projectName == undefined){
    
    return CardService.newActionResponseBuilder().setNotification(CardService.newNotification().setText("Zaaknaam niet ingevuld")).build();
    
  }
  else{
  
  CardService.newComposeActionResponseBuilder().setGmailDraft(GmailApp.createDraft("",projectName,"")).build();
    
  }
  
}


function createEvent(e){
  
  var projectName = e.formInput.project_name;
  var startDate =e.formInput.event_start.msSinceEpoch;Logger.log(startDate)
  var eventDuration = e.formInput.event_duration;
  var endDate = startDate + (eventDuration * 60 * 1000); Logger.log(endDate)
  var location = e.formInput.event_location;
  var description = e.formInput.event_description;
    
  if(projectName == undefined || startDate == undefined || eventDuration == undefined || startDate > endDate){
    
    return CardService.newActionResponseBuilder().setNotification(CardService.newNotification().setText("Zaaknaam en/of email en/of tijd en/of duur niet [goed] ingevuld")).build();
    
  }
  else{
    
   var calendar = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(MIJNEMAIL());
   calendar.createEvent(projectName, new Date(startDate), new Date(endDate),{description:description,location: location}); 
    
  }
    
}

Also this time I should have started with reading the documentation on the Card Service first ;-).