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Tem Pora
Tem Pora

Reputation: 2093

google apps script how to set trigger on a function in one script from another script

I have a GA script, say, s1.

s1 has 3 functions, f1, f2 and f3.

I want to set trigger for f1 (which is in s1) from another script s2.

Is it possible to do it? If yes, how to do it? How to refer to f1 from s2?

The apps documentation on "managing triggers programmatically" says that you need to give function name to set a trigger as given below.

  // One-time execution only
  // Use JavaScript Date of 5/17/2012
  var date = new Date(2012, 5, 17);
  var oneTimeOnly = ScriptApp.newTrigger("runCommand")
      .timeBased()
      .at(date)
      .create();

It seems, the function "runCommand" must be in the same file.

I also read the documentation about libraries. I have included the script s1 in s2. I can also call methods in s1 like s1.f1, s1.f2 from s2. But I cannot set the trigger.

When I executed:

var date = new Date(2014, 2, 17);  
var oneTimeOnly = ScriptApp.newTrigger("s1.f1")
      .timeBased()
      .at(date)
      .create();

I got the error: The selected function cannot be found.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 812

Answers (1)

Abhishek Ram
Abhishek Ram

Reputation: 324

Triggers can only be created for local functions in the project. In order to accomplish what you want you need to create a wrapper function for the library function in the project

Upvotes: 2

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