G Suite Developers Blog: 6/1/11

Video Case Studies: How Assistly and Cloud Sherpas Innovate on Google Apps

June 27, 2011

24 companiesAssistly - Delivering customer service, fully integrated with Gmailpurchase on the Google Apps Marketplacevision of 100% Web

70% of Assistly users leverage Gmail

The Google Apps Marketplace is a Top 5 distribution channel for Assistly

Cloud Sherpas - Google Apps reseller, custom app and admin tools developerSherpaTools

Cloud Sherpas has had a 3-fold increase in revenue year over year

SherpaTools is servicing domains totalling close to 3.5 million users

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Ryan is a Developer Advocate on the Google Apps Marketplace team, helping businesses build applications integrated into Google Apps. Wearing both engineering and business development hats, you'll find Ryan writing code and helping businesses get to market with integrated features.

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Google Apps Marketplace - Developer Survey

June 24, 2011

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Google Apps Script opens new ways to deliver workflow solutions for businesses

June 23, 2011

Editors note: This is cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog. Guest author John Gale is a developer at Appogee, a Google focused systems integrator in the UK. John helps Appogee customers make the most of the Google platform and is the author of Appogee Bookmarks for Android.Google Apps ScriptAppogee Content Approval for Google SitesThe Solution

The ACA spreadsheet generates a Content Submission Form and any content submitted is routed to a selected approver.

The approver receives an email notification, which they can authorize or reject.

Once authorized, the ACA spreadsheet writes the new content into the target Site using Apps Script’s Sites services. The new content is then visible to anyone with view permissions in the target site.

Approver receives an email containing the submitted content

ACA Workflow Diagram

Google Apps Script made it easyUI ServicestutorialsACAGoogle Apps MarketplacePosted by John Gale, Solution Developer, AppogeeWant to weigh in on this topic? Discuss on Buzz

Building UI in Apps Script just got a whole lot easier!

June 21, 2011

Apps ScriptUi serviceUiAppUiAppCreating User Interfaces by Drag and Dropfunction doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var component = app.loadComponent(“MyGui”);
app.add(component);
return app;
}loadComponentapp.getElementById()var button = app.getElementById(“Button1”);
button.setStyleAttribute(“color”, “red”);Extending the User Interfacefunction doGet() {
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var component = app.loadComponent(“MyGui”);
app.add(component.getElementById(“Pane1l”));
return app;
}Advanced Features of GUI Builderapp.add(app.loadComponent(“MyGui”, {prefix: “a”})); app.add(app.loadComponent(“MyGui”, {prefix: “b”})); Publishing Applications to your userssheet.show()UiAppUiAppGetting StartedFile > Build a user interface

Corey Goldfeder profile

Corey is a Google software engineer on the Apps Script Project, based in New York. He has previously worked on Similar Shape search for 3DWarehouse, and as a robotics researcher before joining Google.

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GQueues Mobile: a case for the HTML5 web app

June 20, 2011

This guest post by Cameron Henneke originally appeared last month on the Google Code blog as part of the Who's at Google I/O series. We don't normally cross-post one month later, but we think this post will be very valuable for Google Apps Marketplace developers evaluating their mobile strategy.HTML5 versus Android: Apps or Web for Mobile Development?Reto MeierMichael MahemoffGQueuesGoogle App Engine

Web SQLApplication CacheGQueues Mobileour video

Cameron Henneke

Cameron Henneke is the Founder and Principal Engineer of GQueues

Cameron is based in Chicago and loves Python and JavaScript equally. While not coding or answering support emails, he enjoys playing the piano, backpacking, and cheering on the Bulls.

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Getting Started with the Tasks API on Google App Engine

June 17, 2011

Google TasksGoogle Tasks APIGetting Started with the Tasks API on Google App Engine

Create a simple App Engine app using the Google APIs Client Library.

Provide Google Tasks users a mechanism to authorize your app to access their tasks.

Make authorized requests to the Tasks API.

Check out the tutorialGoogle Tasks API forum

Johan Euphrosine profile | twitter | events

Johan joined Google in 2011 as a Developer Programs Engineer based in Zurich. He is currently focusing on App Engine and Google Apps APIs. Before Google, Johan was providing development services as a Freelancer around FLOSS.

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Gmail and Document Services now available in Apps Script

June 15, 2011

Google Apps ScriptGmailApp - read, label and send emailsGmailAppGmailApp.search()GmailAppDocumentApp - create and edit DocsDocumentAppDocumentAppDocsListDocsList.find()File.getId()Document.saveAndClose()GmailAppDocumentAppPosted by Corey Goldfeder, Google Apps Script TeamWant to weigh in on this topic? Discuss on Buzz

Apps Marketplace Staff Picks - June summary

June 14, 2011

announced@GoogleAtWork Twitter accountEnterprise BlogGmailCalendarContactsDocsTalkApps Script

Mavenlink (slideshow) - a project management solution for professional services delivery. Integrates with Calendar, Contacts and Docs plus provides a lot of great getting started information for new users.

Solve360 (slideshow) - a CRM that integrates with Google Apps to help manage client projects. Provides a full-featured Gmail Contextual Gadget. Contacts sync is 2-way, and they also provide Google Apps Script code that allows customers to use Spreadsheets forms for lead generation, automatically populating submissions into Solve360.

Smartsheet (slideshow) - a project management and collaboration tool based on a spreadsheet concept that makes it easy to keep track of tasks and deadlines. Great Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Contacts integration, allowing users to easily import data from and export data to Google Spreadsheets and collaborate with users in their contact lists. The Gmail Contextual Gadget allows to you receive alerts upon sheet updates, and automatically make changes from within your e-mail.

GQueues (slideshow) - a task management app that lets you share lists, assign tasks, get reminders and stay organized. Integrates with Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Google Talk, and provides great gadgets that can be used in Calendar, Gmail or iGoogle. They also have an offline-capable HTML5 mobile app, which the founder has blogged about recently on the Google Code Blog.

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Increased Security for Google Apps APIs with New OAuth Scopes

June 13, 2011

launched OAuth supportProvisioning APIauthorization section of the Provisioning API Developer's Guideauthorize use of the Reporting API via OAuththis articlePosted by Michael Manoochehri, Google Apps APIs TeamWant to weigh in on this topic? Discuss on Buzz

Make your Business App Intelligent with the Google Prediction API

June 13, 2011

Google Prediction APIWhat can the Prediction API do?

Spam detection: Does your product allow users to submit content? Do some users abuse this opportunity by submitting spam? Instead of maintaining a large number of regular expressions trying to catch common types of spam, you can use the Prediction API to automatically detect it and react accordingly.

Sentiment analysis: Are you building a CRM that keeps track of exchanges with customers? You could use the Prediction API to analyze correspondence with customers and detect when a customer might be communicating with a really negative or positive tone. This can alert you to when you might need to improve a relationship or even start writing a customer success story.

Tagging & organizing: Does your application store a lot of unstructured content? You can provide organization for this content by automatically tagging it based on how your users have previously tagged similar content.

Message routing: If you have a CRM that needs to route leads to the most appropriate people or a helpdesk ticket system that needs to route tickets to the correct support team, the Prediction API can help. Instead of writing a set of rules for which leads or tickets get routed to which people, use machine learning to predict the routing based on historical patterns.

demo appGoogle Apps MarketplaceHosted Model GalleryHow does it work?

Upload training data to Google Storage. Training data is formatted as a CSV file with the first column representing the result (categorical or real-valued) and the remaining columns representing separate features contributing to the result.

Example for predicting the size of a person in meters:
"Height in meters", "Gender", "Father's height", "Mother's height", "Country of origin"

1.71,”Male”,1.74,1.62,”France”
1.51,”Female”,1.61,1.50,”India”
….

Train a model based on the uploaded data. You only need to make a single REST call to start the asynchronous training process.

Predict results based on new data

(Optional) Tune the training model with new results. If you have new training data, you can now add it to your existing model to tune it.

(Optional) Make your model available to others via the forthcoming Hosted Model Gallery.

Try it outHello World exampleHosted Model Gallery

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