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Totally Unscripted is a Google Workspace developer show organized by the community for the community. We invite members of the community to share their Google Workspace developer tips, tricks and triumphs.

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Totally Unscripted episodes:

06.24.2024
TU5.10 - Stop clicking, start Apps Scripting; The case for automating Google Workspace for EVERYONE!
To wrap up the first half of season 5, the Totally Unscripted crew go back to basics and talk about the perhaps the best-kept secret in the Google Workspace universe, and that’s of course Google Apps Script! While many of...
05.02.2024
TU5.9 - What's new in the AppSheet world? A chat with AppSheet Engineering Lead Mike Procopio
In this episode, we will welcome Engineering Lead Mike Procopio from the Google AppSheet team. Mike has in-depth knowledge of Google Workspace, you can thank Mike for simpler file upload in Google Drive launched in 2011. As part of the session...
04.22.2024
TU5.8 - Apps Script and Gemini Next '24 Redux: Build custom AI-powered Google Workspace solutions
Join the TU team as we delve into the world of custom generative AI solutions for Google Workspace using Apps Script. Discover how developers are seamlessly integrating Gemini's large language models to revolutionize productivity and automation. We'll explore real-world examples...
04.04.2024
TU5.7 - API Mastery in Action: Creating powerful Google Workspace 3P solutions with guest Comeen
The shift to hybrid work models presents unique challenges for businesses. How do you create a seamless, productive experience for employees in this new environment? These challenges also create opportunities for third parties like Comeen to develop solutions that...
03.22.2024
TU5.6: Level Up Your Productivity: Unboxing the Gift of Apps Script
Are you looking for ways to supercharge your productivity with Google Apps Script? Then this episode of Totally Unscripted is for you! Join us as we explore how Google Apps Script is being used to make a real impact in productivity....
03.07.2024
TU5.5: The Answer Is Always A Spreadsheet
Whether you are managing projects, calculating budgets, forecasting sales, or just tracking your own to-do lists, there is almost always a spreadsheet involved. In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we get back to basics and discuss the versatility and...
02.22.2024
TU5.4 - Beyond Basic Bots Building Intelligent Assistants With Google Chat And Vertex AI
Say goodbye to simple chatbots and hello to intelligent assistants and apps! In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we dive into the world of building advanced enterprise apps and assistants using interactive dialogs and Vertex AI in Google Chat. As...
02.09.2024
TU5.3 - Google Workspace Development: Now with a Side of Smart Chips!
There have been a number of saucy updates and announcements around Smart Chips and other integrations to Google Docs, as well as Sheets and Slides. In this episode we review how you can start to create Google Workspace Add-ons for...
01.25.2024
TU5.2 - How developers are shaping the future with Google Workspace and GenAI
Google Workspace provides developers and partners a platform to build world class solutions. In this episode we will show how Vertex AI and other GenAI solutions can be used to extend the capabilities of Google Workspace with targeted solutions that...
01.10.2024
TU5.1 - Since We Ve Been Gone A Recap
WE ARE BACK!!! Totally Unscripted returns for more Google Workspace Developer community chat about new features, popular solution trends, best practices, the Google Workspace Marketplace and everything else related to Google Workspace development. In this episode we take a...
11.26.2021
TU4.10: Building successful Add-ons for Google Workspace
The Google Workspace Marketplace offers users and administrators alike a wide variety of third party solutions that extend Google Workspace. Creating a successful add-on for the Marketplace takes more than a bit of luck to stand out from the crowd....
11.19.2021
TU4.9: What's new in the world of Chat Apps?
Chat bots (aka Chat Apps) offer developers a framework for building solutions within conversations and direct messages inside of Google Chat. As Google Chat has become a more integral part of Google Workspace, Chat Apps have evolved to offer developers...
11.04.2021
TU4.8: How SADA builds on Google Workspace
SADA is a Google Cloud Premier Partner that focuses on Google Cloud consulting, migration and deployment, custom development, user adoption, and change management services. As an industry leader in helping organizations implement Google Workspace, SADA has developed a practice area...
10.30.2021
TU4.7: The Pulse of the Google Apps Script Community
The AppsScriptPulse website (https://pulse.appsscript.info) was launched in 2019, providing a curated collection of the latest Google Apps Script contributions from both Google, but focusing on community contributions. The site now has over 600 solutions, snippets, tutorials and resources updated...
10.20.2021
TU4.6: Life After Apps Script - A chat with Eric Koleda, Developer Advocate @ Coda
In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we will catch up with Eric Koleda who has been a well known fixture to Google Workspace Developers for the better part of a decade. Now that his legendary career as a Google Workspace...
10.14.2021
TU4.5: Introducing the new Google Workspace Forms API!
Google Workspace offers developers REST APIs to interact programmatically with nearly every product and feature within the suite. In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we are going to take a first look at a BRAND NEW Google Forms API for...
10.07.2021
TU4.4: Never lost for Words - The art of building Google Workspace Developer Documentation
Imagine trying to be a successful developer without good documentation? Yet as developers, we often don’t admit how lost we would be without it. Truth is, creating and maintaining developer documentation is an art; Developers demand content that is concise,...
10.01.2021
TU4.3: Create your approvals hub by bringing DocuSign into Google Workspace
If you have had to electronically sign a document before you are likely to be one of the 200+ million users who have used DocuSign. DocuSign provides a suite of services to support the entire contract lifecycle from eSignature to...
09.23.2021
TU4.2: Automating your workflows with Document AI
Document AI uses machine learning on a scalable cloud-based platform to help your organization efficiently scan, analyze, and understand documents. Manually inputting invoices, receipts, and expenses can be time-consuming, but it doesn’t have to be. The Procurement Document AI is...
09.16.2021
TU4.1: Wholly Sheets: Tips for building productivity solutions with Google Sheets
Spreadsheets are the swiss army knife of productivity tools where they are used (and sometimes misused) as databases, workflow engines, project management tools, custom calculators, and oh yeah… spreadsheets. In this episode of Totally Unscripted, we will chat with Jonathan...
07.18.2021
TU3.19: Automation for Admins: Command line management for Google Workspace with GAM
In this episode we are joined by Jay Lee, creator of Google Apps Manager (GAM). GAM is an open source command line tool for Linux, MacOS and Windows which allows administrators to easily manage domain and user settings in Google...
06.12.2021
TU 3.18: Developing a market leading Google Workspace Add-on - Behind the scenes at Supermetrics
Over half a million people, including marketers, data analysts, and data engineers, use Supermetrics to move data from popular marketing platforms (such as Facebook, Google Ads, and HubSpot) to Google Sheets, Google Data Studio and other destinations. With 10% of...
06.03.2021
TU3.17: Developing Google Workspace workflows with AppSheet Automation
For additional information/resources visit https://tu.appsscript.info/previous-episodes/season-3/tu3-17 In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Christian Schalk (Developer Advocate, Google Cloud) to look at AppSheet Automation, which uses Google AI to make it easier to automate business processes. By making it...
05.24.2021
TU3.16: Managing Google Apps Script applications in large enterprise environments
Managing applications in large enterprise environments has its own dynamics. In this episode of Totally Unscripted Niek Waarbroek (CTO & Partner at NextNovate) and Jasper Duizendstra (Google Cloud Architect at duizendstra.com) share their approaches to managing the design, development and...
04.27.2021
TU3.15: Hello Alternate Runtimes - How to build Google Workspace Add-ons without using Apps Script
Last month Google announced the general availability of Alternate Runtimes for Google Workspace Add-ons. With alternative runtimes, developers can write Add-ons in any language and on any infrastructure, and then publish them to the Google Workspace Marketplace. In this episode...
04.20.2021
TU3.14: Google Apps Script - Discover, Learn and Share
In this episode of Totally Unscripted we explore some of the ways you can extended your own knowledge in Google Apps Script as well as supporting others. We are joined by Chanel Greco (saperis, Founder & CEO) who has quickly...
04.09.2021
TU3.13: Google Chat tips from GDEs Laura Taylor and Denis Valášek
In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Google Developers Experts Laura Taylor and Denis Valášek to talk about Google Chat and opportunities to develop Google Chat bots and conversational interfaces with Google Dialogflow. We'll cover everything that...
02.27.2021
TU3.12: Modernize your Workspace Editor Add-ons development with Angular
For source code and other resources visit https://tu.appsscript.info/previous-episodes/season-3/tu3-12 We all love the flexibility HTMLService gives us when developing Google Workspace Editor Add-ons, but what happens when you need to scale your production? Web application frameworks provide a way to deploy and...
02.13.2021
TU3.11: No-Code Workflow Automation in Google Workspace
In this episode of Totally Unscripted we look at no-code solutions for Google Workspace automation. We are joined by no-code and automation experts Vahid Taslimi and Aravin Srinivasan from zenphi. Zenphi is a no-code business process automation platform, designed from...
02.06.2021
TU3.10: Preaching to the Converted - Convert Microsoft Excel files with macros to Google Sheets
In this episode we discuss the Macro Converter Add-on, a tool developed by Google to support Enterprise users with the conversion of MS Excel files with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code to Google Sheets/Apps Script. For the episode we...
01.30.2021
TU3.9: Getting Schooled on Apps Script - Using Automation in EDU
In this episode of Totally Unscripted we explore how Google Apps Script is supporting educators around the world to become more productive and efficient. From grading quizzes to administering class rosters and everything in between, Apps Script can be used...
01.22.2021
TU3.8: Get AMPed about Email
AMP for Email enables developers to deliver rich, interactive, app like functionality in emails. In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Jon Harmer (Product Manager, Google Workspace) and Steven Bazyl (Developer Relations, Google Cloud) who give use...
01.16.2021
TU3.7: A 2020 Google Apps Script recap for Google Workspace solution builders
Guests: Romain Vailard, Scott 'Yagi' Donald and Olaf Hubel We kick off the year on Totally Unscripted looking at some of the highlights and developments for Google Workspace solution builders you may have missed in 2020. Our panel includes Olaf...
12.21.2020
TU3.6: Becoming a Google Workspace Solutions Gallery contributor
Guests: Jasper Duizendstra, Google Cloud Architect at duizendstra.com In this episode we had a look at the Google Workspace Solutions Gallery. This site is "a collection of sample solutions that demonstrates how you can solve common business challenges with Google...
12.11.2020
TU3.5: New workflow solutions with Tables and Google Apps Script
Guests: Carlin Yuen Co-founder & Product Lead, Tables (Google, Area 120) and Ben Collins Educator at benlcollins.com and Google Developer Expert The Tables beta is the latest product to emerge from Google’s Area 120. Currently Tables is only available...
12.05.2020
TU3.4: "The State of Script" address from Google (detailed look at new IDE)
In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Keith Einstein Product Manager for Apps Script and Charles Maxson (TU host and Developer Advocate at Google). As part of this show Keith reviews the current state of Apps Script...
11.25.2020
TU Special: Using the Google Video Intelligence API to index and disambiguate films by content
In this TU special we are joined by Bruce Mcpherson who will share work on detecting similarities and duplication between films digitally using the trained ML models in the Google Video Intelligence API. With this the video content itself can...
11.20.2020
TU3.3: Getting hooked on AppSheet
Guests: Praveen Seshadri, Distinguished Software Engineer, Google Christian Schalk, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud In this episode of Totally Unscripted we are joined by Praveen Seshadri co-founder of AppSheet, the no-code mobile-application-building platform recently acquired by Google. Joining Praveen will be Christian Schalk,...
11.13.2020
TU3.2: Getting Started with Google Workspace Add-ons Development
Guests - Mike Rhemtulla (Product Manager, Google Workspace), Steven Bazyl (Developer Relations, Google Cloud) and Steve Webster (SW gApps LLC, President) In this episode we are joined by Mike Rhemtulla and Steven Bazyl exploring Google Workspace Add-on development. As part...
11.06.2020
TU3.1: TU Returns! Meet the new Google Workspace Developers Experts
Totally Unscripted is back! We begin our reboot with an opportunity to meet some of the new Google Developers Experts (GDE) in Google Apps Script. The show is also an opportunity to find out if you've got what it takes...

What's Totally Unscripted about?

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Totally Unscripted episodes:

TU5.10 - Stop clicking, start Apps Scripting; The case for automating Google Workspace for EVERYONE!

TU5.9 - What's new in the AppSheet world? A chat with AppSheet Engineering Lead Mike Procopio

TU5.8 - Apps Script and Gemini Next '24 Redux: Build custom AI-powered Google Workspace solutions

TU5.7 - API Mastery in Action: Creating powerful Google Workspace 3P solutions with guest Comeen

TU5.6: Level Up Your Productivity: Unboxing the Gift of Apps Script

TU5.5: The Answer Is Always A Spreadsheet

TU5.4 - Beyond Basic Bots Building Intelligent Assistants With Google Chat And Vertex AI

TU5.3 - Google Workspace Development: Now with a Side of Smart Chips!

TU5.2 - How developers are shaping the future with Google Workspace and GenAI

TU5.1 - Since We Ve Been Gone A Recap

TU4.10: Building successful Add-ons for Google Workspace

TU4.9: What's new in the world of Chat Apps?

TU4.8: How SADA builds on Google Workspace

TU4.7: The Pulse of the Google Apps Script Community

TU4.6: Life After Apps Script - A chat with Eric Koleda, Developer Advocate @ Coda

TU4.5: Introducing the new Google Workspace Forms API!

TU4.4: Never lost for Words - The art of building Google Workspace Developer Documentation

TU4.3: Create your approvals hub by bringing DocuSign into Google Workspace

TU4.2: Automating your workflows with Document AI

TU4.1: Wholly Sheets: Tips for building productivity solutions with Google Sheets

TU3.19: Automation for Admins: Command line management for Google Workspace with GAM

TU 3.18: Developing a market leading Google Workspace Add-on - Behind the scenes at Supermetrics

TU3.17: Developing Google Workspace workflows with AppSheet Automation

TU3.16: Managing Google Apps Script applications in large enterprise environments

TU3.15: Hello Alternate Runtimes - How to build Google Workspace Add-ons without using Apps Script

TU3.14: Google Apps Script - Discover, Learn and Share

TU3.13: Google Chat tips from GDEs Laura Taylor and Denis Valášek

TU3.12: Modernize your Workspace Editor Add-ons development with Angular

TU3.11: No-Code Workflow Automation in Google Workspace

TU3.10: Preaching to the Converted - Convert Microsoft Excel files with macros to Google Sheets

TU3.9: Getting Schooled on Apps Script - Using Automation in EDU

TU3.8: Get AMPed about Email

TU3.7: A 2020 Google Apps Script recap for Google Workspace solution builders

TU3.6: Becoming a Google Workspace Solutions Gallery contributor

TU3.5: New workflow solutions with Tables and Google Apps Script

TU3.4: "The State of Script" address from Google (detailed look at new IDE)

TU Special: Using the Google Video Intelligence API to index and disambiguate films by content

TU3.3: Getting hooked on AppSheet

TU3.2: Getting Started with Google Workspace Add-ons Development

TU3.1: TU Returns! Meet the new Google Workspace Developers Experts