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Adam Szecowka
Adam Szecowka

Reputation: 694

Google Apps Script - communication between script

Hi
My problem is following: I would like to create small web page, on which it will be possible to create event in Google Calendar, but with some restrictions. In my case this calendar could be edited by my flatmates to reserve washing machine. This reservation cannot overlap and also all of us has limited number of days when we can use it.
I have created private calendar, and I have created script which validate requests, and if everything is ok add event to calendar. This script is executed as me (because only I have permission to edit this calendar). But I have problem with fetching information which user execute this script (me or one of my flatmate). Class Session contains 2 methods getActiveUser() and getEffectiveUser() but active user does not work (I guess because privacy protection policy). But if I create another script which is executed as user accessing the web I can get active user.
Does anybody know if is it possible to communicate somehow between this 2 scripts embedeed on the same site? I want to pass email of active user from one script to another. Or maybe do you know better solution how to solve this problem?

Regards Adam

Upvotes: 2

Views: 811

Answers (2)

Henrique G. Abreu
Henrique G. Abreu

Reputation: 17752

As you noticed, you need to set the script to run as the user accessing it to get his email. Then, instead of accessing the calendar directly (which you obviously can't) you can call another script published, but running as yourself allowing anonymous access that will receive this request from the "viewing" script and create the calendar events for it.

After you publish this "background" script, get its url and use it on a UrlfetchApp.fetch call to it. Then pass the parameters as url paremeters (or on payload if you prefer to use post instead of get).

The background script may even use ContentService to give nice return values to the calling script.

Upvotes: 3

mzimmerman
mzimmerman

Reputation: 940

Sure, you can do so, but it's not as simple as you'd like. Make your admin level script run a web service that responds to the other script. It can probably be hacked as you can't authenticate the users, but comon, this is a washing macine!

Upvotes: 0

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