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H: Facebook Shared Album
I created on a shared album. It is possible that one day in the future, I may delete my account. If I, as the owner of a shared album on Facebook deactivate my account, does that delete the shared album?
AI: Yes, that deletes the shared album as well since it's associated with your account. |
H: Email notifications layout
Is there an option to preserve the 2-columns layout of the form in an email notification (when "include entry details is checked")?
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
Currently email notifications and confirmations present entry details in a one column layout with left-aligned field labels. The reason for this relates to the current state of HTML support in email clients, which do not support many of the modern layout options. Also, our goal was to have these emails be easy to read on mobile devices, where the majority of email messages are now read each day.
Having said this, I will add this suggestion to our Idea Board and mention it to our design team to get their input and consideration for updates in the future.
Also, for email confirmations, you can create a fully customized email message including entry data like the following example: |
H: How do I copy cell values programatically?
How can I do this programmatically in Google Sheets?
How can I copy cell values rather than references from one sheet to another in Google Sheets
I have a RSS feed, that I am working along side, so I don't want to copy the reference to the other cell, rather the cell data, programatically.
AI: You'll want to use Range.getValues().
The following function takes a range A2:B4, and returns its pure values:
function getRangeValues() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var range = sheet.getRange("A2:B4");
var values = range.getValues();
return values;
};
To use the script, you must first install it: In your spreadsheet, click Tools -> Script editor, and paste the script. From the drop-down menu in the Script Editor Toolbar, select getRangeValues, and click the Run button (you only need to do this once).
This will give you an authorization dialog, in which you must accept. From now on, you can use the function by entering =getRangeValues() in a cell.
See the example spreadsheet I have set up, and copy it to your own drive if you want to experiment with it. |
H: Filter for Labels duplicates messages when read in Thunderbird
I am using Thunderbird to read Gmail messages. I created a few filters on Gmail which put special labels on specific messages. This way the messages appear in their own folders when I read them in Thunderbird. At least they should have!
But what happens is that now I have the same message in my Thunderbird inbox and in its dedicated folder. Even more, the new message indicator appears only for Inbox, and to have it appear for some folder, I have to click on that specific folder in Thunderbird to refresh its content from Gmail.
When I had filters inside Thunderbird, this was not happening. I could see how many unread messages I have in each folder without having to click on it. Also I did not have any message duplicated. So I suspect I did not properly create Gmail filter.
How can I fix this?
PS. I create filter by selecting option "Apply label for" as there is no "move message" option.
AI: The solution is to properly set filters. Namely, when you create a filter, you have to choose option to archive the message e.g. to skip inbox. After this, the messages in thunderbird will no longer be duplicated in the inbox. |
H: Delete Google+ cover photo
How do I delete or change a cover photo? Every guide I find is at least two years old and NONE OF IT is relevant to the new business listings in Google+.
https://plus.google.com/+BarrJonesAssociatesLLPColumbus/posts?hl=en
Not the user photo/icon—that's a piece of cake to update. I'm trying to change the big cover photo that looks like it came from 1996. I did not set this page up originally, but the admin account was handed to me, so I have full access. I deleted every photo in the admin account at https://plus.google.com/photos. These images also do not exist anywhere in the "manage" section of the business listing. There's no edit or remove button hovering over the image while logged in as the admin. They do appear in the album "Scrapbook photos" when viewing the Google+ page above, but this album does not appear to be editable.
AI: When viewing the page the bottom right of the cover image has a "change cover" button when you hover the mouse over the image. |
H: Gmail's filter for SPAM folder and/or keywords in multiple fields
Gmail's filters are either very weak or I don't understand, how to create just a bit more complex ones.
In particular, how can I create a filter, that will match:
messages in SPAM folder (as well as in others or only in SPAM folder),
messages, that contain specified keyword in many fields (i.e. From field and message's body).
I'm able to match messages, that contain more than one keyword in given field (for example, to match many keywords in From field, I use one OR two OR three). But, can I write one filter, that will match these keywords in both From field and message's body? So, it will apply given filter rule, no matter, if keyword was found in this or that field? Or do I have to write separate filters for each field, which I want to search for matching keywords?
AI: Gmail filters may not be sophisticated enough for that. Further, filtering stuff that has the "spam" label may not work reliably. (Filters act when a message arrives; a message marked spam may have been processed before that. You'll even be warned to that effect. Works fine for search, though.)
The best I can come up with based on your question is a filter that looks like this:
Matches: (from:(one OR two OR three) (one OR two OR three) in:spam)
Do this: Never mark it as important
When you create the filter you'll essentially put the whole string from:(one OR two OR three) (one OR two OR three) in:spam in the Has the words field.
There are some flaws. The general text (one OR two OR three) could match against the subject (or possibly other places), because there's no way to limit the text search to the body of the message.
More at Google Support. |
H: How to skip blank cells when copying a range from source to destination by Formula
I have three levels of hierarchical data in Google Spreadsheets that looks something like this:
As data is being entered in here, I want it collect in three separate sheets like this:
The solution I am looking for is a formula driven approach. I have tried VLOOKUP but can't seem to figure out how to make it work for this situation. I have googled quite a bit and all I am getting is applying filters, or removing blank cells like this one, but that does not serve my purpose.
AI: Filter() should do that. Let's say the sheet with the 'source data' is called Sheet1, then on the second sheet (where you want the level1 names), in cell A1 try:
=filter(Sheet1!A:A; len(Sheet1!A:A))
and repeat for all the other sheets and ranges.. |
H: Google Sheets Query Get Row When Any of These Cells are Not Empty
So like my title states I would like to select via a query only the rows where certain cells are not blank/empty.
I have 4 pools that I have a form for collecting their chemistry. In separate sheets I would like to display each pool's data.
I'm expecting some incomplete submissions but if I get just one value I would still like to get it, however I don't want anywhere that pool values are completely empty.
This is the query that I thought might work however I only get the headers.
This is the example sheet anyone can work on.
=QUERY('Form Responses 1'!A:N,"SELECT C,E,G,H WHERE G !='' OR H !='' ORDER BY C, E ASC", 1)
ORDER BY doesn't work either. Am I missing something?
AI: Please try:
=QUERY('Form Responses 1'!A:N,"SELECT C,E,G,H where G is not null or H is not null order by C,E") |
H: Can I use ArrayFormula with CountBlank or IsBlank, if so how?
=IF( OR(COUNTBLANK($F3)>0,
COUNTBLANK($G3)>0,
COUNTBLANK($H3)>0,
COUNTBLANK($I3)>0),
"Missing Values",
$E3+(index(LSI_Index!$B$4:$B$40,MATCH(VLOOKUP($G3, LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40,1),LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40)))+(index(LSI_Index!$F$4:$F42, MATCH($H3,LSI_Index!$E$4:$E$42)))+(index(LSI_Index!$D$4:$D$38, MATCH($I3,LSI_Index!$C$4:$C$38)))-12.1)
The above works if I manually click and drag down the formula. However I would like to do something like either of these formulas below using Arrayformula() so I don't have to 'click drag' to copy down the formula.
=ArrayFormula(IF(LEN($A3:$A),IF(OR(COUNTBLANK($F3)>0,COUNTBLANK($G3)>0,COUNTBLANK($H3)>0,COUNTBLANK($I3)>0),"Missing Values",$F3:$F+(index(LSI_Index!$B$4:$B$40,MATCH(VLOOKUP($G3:$G, LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40,1),LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40)))+(index(LSI_Index!$F$4:$F42, MATCH($H3:$H,LSI_Index!$E$4:$E$42)))+(index(LSI_Index!$D$4:$D$38, MATCH($I3:$I,LSI_Index!$C$4:$C$38)))-12.1),))
=ArrayFormula(IF(LEN($A3:$A),IF(OR(ISBLANK($F3:F),ISBLANK($G3:G),ISBLANK($H3:H),ISBLANK($I3:I)),"Missing Values",$F3:$F+(index(LSI_Index!$B$4:$B$40,MATCH(VLOOKUP($G3:$G, LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40,1),LSI_Index!$A$4:$A$40)))+(index(LSI_Index!$F$4:$F42, MATCH($H3:$H,LSI_Index!$E$4:$E$42)))+(index(LSI_Index!$D$4:$D$38, MATCH($I3:$I,LSI_Index!$C$4:$C$38)))-12.1),))
I tried CountBlank() and I've tried IsBlank() but neither work. You can see in this spread sheet what works and what doesn't.
AI: I was able to reduce the formula to the one below.
Formula
=ARRAYFORMULA(
IFERROR(
E3:E6 +
VLOOKUP(G3:G6, temperature, 2, 1) +
VLOOKUP(H3:H6, alkalinity, 2, 1) +
VLOOKUP(I3:I6, calcium, 2, 1) -
12.1,
"Missing values"
)
)
copy / paste
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(E3:E6 + VLOOKUP(G3:G6, temperature, 2, 1) + VLOOKUP(H3:H6, alkalinity, 2, 1) + VLOOKUP(I3:I6, calcium, 2, 1) - 12.1,"Missing values"))
Explained
The fourth parameter in the VLOOKUP formula is optional and this is what's being said about that:
Indicates whether the column to be searched (the first column of the specified range) is sorted, in which case the closest match for 'search_key' will be returned.
Setting it to TRUE will result in the desired result. The IFERROR will cover those instances were a value is missing, showing the text Missing values.
For very convoluted formula's it also helps to create named ranges.
Example
I've added my solution to your example file. |
H: Tolerant Sum of column
I would like to make the sum of a column which might also contain cells which are not parseable as a number (strings, empty, etc). These cells should just be ignored.
I've tried:
=SUMIF(A1:A500,"<>0")
but it doesn't work because it also seems to exclude cells which actually contain valid numbers.
Is there a better way of performing a summation, excluding none parseable values?
AI: Let me add my comment as an answer... :-)
You should be okay just using =SUM(), because sum() simply ignores non-numeric values. |
H: How can I add hours in Google Sheets to show days?
I have 2 cells in Google Sheets with values:
22:00:00
22:00:00
and I have a cell which has the function sum to sum these values and it shows the value:
20:00:00
I am guessing it is trying to tell me 1 day + 20 hours, but how can I see the 1 day part?
AI: Doing calculations on date/times is tricky, because there are a lot of other parameters that you usually don't think about. Are the two times in the same time zone, for example? Or on which date are the two times?
I see that you want 22 hours + 22 hours to be displayed as 1 day + 20 hours, which sounds reasonable enough, but that assumption fails as soon as a day is not 24 hours - as it can be, when going from/to daylight savings time.
So I think the best you can get is to show the number of hours (44). However, it does not make much sense to format the sum cell as a date (which date? January 1st?), but as a duration:
Feel free to look at/copy the example spreadsheet I've set up. |
H: What does Gmail really mean when the login page offers me an option to "stay signed in"?
Gmail's sign in page offers the checkbox "stay signed in". Does this mean that it will stay signed in indefinitely? If not, then for how long?
The "need help?" link is not immediately helpful.
AI: Nothing lasts forever. You stay signed in as long you don't clear your browser cookies or manually sign out. If you use any third party junk cleaner tools like CCleaner to clear browser cookies, that will get you signed out as well.
Gmail's session cookies have a relatively long expiration date as you can see here:
This is discussed in Google's official blog where they've mentioned the following:
In the coming months, Google will start issuing our users cookies that will be set to auto-expire after 2 years, while auto-renewing the cookies of active users during this time period. |
H: Google Spreadsheet: How to fill in missing values (inbetween filled values) automatically
I made a spreadsheet for tracking weight, where each row is one day, and one column is weight. Although I've had Google Spreadsheet create a row for every date in the year, I only measure my weight a few times a week. What I would like is a formula to tell Google Docs to use "the last manually filled entry higher in the column", or something along these lines. Ideally, the last filled row though, will be a manual entry (i.e., hopefully I could paste the formula into all cells in the column, and blank rows between manually-entered rows are filled, but nothing after the last manual entry).
Even more ideally, between two manually filled rows (i.e., row 10 and row 15), the formula would be able to interpolate between the two, but I realize that is asking a bit much.
I have no experience in making these formulas though, can anyone point me to somewhere to start to solve this problem?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akWP5W2HHb1Pzfd3pk7HLKZNGa22qPQBiCCF-0PgaPM/edit?usp=sharing
AI: I added this formula to your spreadsheet
=ArrayFormula(if(row(B2:B) <= max(if(not(isblank(B2:B)), row(B2:B))),vlookup(row(B2:B),filter({row(B2:B),B2:B},len(B2:B)),2),))
It seems to deliver what you asked, except for the interpolation part.
Enter this formula in row 2, no need to drag down.
I hope this helps ? |
H: Google Sheets - Auto update table and auto add new data entries
I have a table in wich raw data is entered manually, with info about clients and the requests they made.
And then I have this table in which I'm trying to analyze a bit the raw data (# of requests per client, time consumed, etc).
I need that in the last column (highlighte in yellow) to have the Type of document most type requested by Name, but I don't know how, what I have is the type of document most requested from ALL toghether, by using this formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(INDEX(D$4:D$14,MATCH(MAX(COUNTIF(D$4:D$14,D$4:D$14)),COUNTIF(D$4:D$14,D$4:D$14),0)))
Also I need the analysis table to auto update each time a new entry is made in the raw data table.
Any help?
This is the sheet I'm using for testing:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L5YDB-iPyLKgQwTYGJjZcjrOzpkM8fMMzMudJV-ukAA/edit
AI: In N3 I entered this formula:
=ArrayFormula({query(query({A3:D,value(B3:B)}, "select Col1, sum(Col5), count(Col4), sum(Col3) where Col1<>'' group by Col1 format sum(Col5) 'h:mm:ss'"),"select* offset 1",0), vlookup(query(query(query(A4:D, "select D, A, sum(C) group by A, D"), "select max(Col3), Col2 group by Col2 label max(Col3)''"), "select Col1")&unique(sort(filter(A4:A, len(A4:A)))), {query(query(A4:D, "select sum(C), A, D group by A, D"), "select Col1",0)&query(query(A4:D, "select sum(C), A, D group by A, D"), "select Col2",0),query(query(A4:D, "select sum(C), A, D group by A, D"), "select Col3",0)}, 2, 0)})
that seems to output the table you had as the expected output. Maybe someone comes up with something a little shorter (lol) but untill then.. make sure to test it thoroughly... |
H: Google Sheets list key with highest value in key value pair
I have a some data in key-value pairs setup like so:
A B
1 Key: Value:
2 Cars 5
3 Bikes 4
4 Vans 9
5 Trucks 6
What I can't seem to figure out (mind-block) is the formula to answer this:
Product with higest sales: <answer should be 'Vans'>
What formula would I need to get the result Vans? I've tried this:
=FILTER(A2:A6, MAX(B2:B6))
To which I get an error stating that the Fliter has mismatched array sizes.
AI: You need to specify a condition, not just a value, for the FILTER function.
So:
=FILTER(A2:A6, B2:B6 = MAX(B2:B6))
I have set up a demonstration spreadsheet for this, feel free to have a look or copy it. |
H: xpath to get non-distinct parent node data for each child node
Google Spreadsheets has an IMPORTXML function, which I am trying to use to maintain a list of TV episodes, based on the API at http://services.tvrage.com/feeds/episode_list.php?sid=3183.
I am trying to get a table of Date | Season No | Episode No | Title from that XML.
The XML is hierarchical, nesting episodes under seasons.
I can get my date, episode and title columns, using xpath:
Date - /Show/Episodelist/Season/episode/airdate
Episode No - /Show/Episodelist/Season/episode/seasonnum
Title - /Show/Episodelist/Season/episode/title
However, I cannot get seem to find the right xpath to extract the Season number for each episode entry, which is the no attribute to the Season parent node.
I have tried:
/Show/Episodelist/Season/episode/../@no
/Show/Episodelist/Season/episode/parent::Season/@no
Both of these result in getting a distinct list of seasons, i.e.:
Date Season Episode Title
01-01-2001 1 1 foo
02-01-2001 2 2 bar
03-01-2001 3 3 baz
04-01-2001 4 fee
05-01-2001 5 fob
01-03-2002 1 bix
02-03-2002 2 buz
03-03-2002 3 fez
04-03-2002 4 baj
...whereas I am looking for:
Date Season Episode Title
01-01-2001 1 1 foo
02-01-2001 1 2 bar
03-01-2001 1 3 baz
04-01-2001 1 4 fee
05-01-2001 1 5 fob
01-03-2002 2 1 bix
02-03-2002 2 2 buz
03-03-2002 2 3 fez
04-03-2002 2 4 baj
What is the correct xpath so that the IMPORTXML routine does not do a distinct operation on the imported data?
AI: As stated in my comment, doing this with =importXML and XPath seems tricky.
But doing it programmatically, using the XmlService of Google Apps Script, looks easier.
I have written the following:
function parseTvRageXml(url) {
var result = [];
var xml = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
var document = XmlService.parse(xml);
var root = document.getRootElement();
var show = document.getRootElement();
var episodeList = show.getChild("Episodelist");
var seasons = episodeList.getChildren("Season");
for (var i = 0; i < seasons.length; i++) {
var season = seasons[i];
var seasonNum = season.getAttribute("no").getValue();
var episodes = season.getChildren("episode");
for (var j = 0; j < episodes.length; j++) {
var episode = episodes[j];
var resultRow = [];
resultRow.push(seasonNum);
resultRow.push(episode.getChild("epnum").getText());
resultRow.push(episode.getChild("seasonnum").getText());
resultRow.push(episode.getChild("airdate").getText());
resultRow.push(episode.getChild("link").getText());
resultRow.push(episode.getChild("title").getText());
result.push(resultRow);
}
}
return result;
}
In effect, it fetches the content from the given URL, parses it as XML, and iterates through the elements, extracting values of the elements you wanted, which is stored in a 2-dimensional array (result), and returned.
To use this, you must install the script in your spreadsheet. Click the Tools menu → Script editor, and paste the code listed above. Save the script.
In the cell where you want the output, enter
=parseTvRageXml("http://services.tvrage.com/feeds/episode_list.php?sid=3183")
The result should be a list of episodes, with the following columns:
Season number | epnum | seasonnum | airdate | link | title
I have set up an example spreadsheet to demonstrate this, feel free to copy it. |
H: Invite people who liked my first page to like another one in Facebook
I'm the admin of a certain Facebook page, "A". Some people I don't know personally and I'm not friend with liked this page.
Now I created a 2nd page, "B". Since the topics are similar, I'd like to invite all the people from page "A" to also like page "B".
Is this possible?
AI: You can't invite someone from one page to another.
You can only invite your friends to a page so you can invite someone from your friends list but not from another page like list. |
H: VLOOKUP issues not finding a value that's in its range
Here's a link to a copy of my spreadsheet.
I am attempting to do the same formula using a VLOOKUP in four sheets to do a calculation called LSI.
In the first sheet I have the raw data from a form coming in.
In the second sheet I have used a query to just get the Dive tank data. The sheet labeled DiveTank has the formula to calculate LSI and it works perfectly in cell M3:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(LEN(A3:A),IF(row(A3:A)=3,"LSI", E3:E + VLOOKUP(F3:F, 'LSI-Index'!A4:B40,2,1) + VLOOKUP(G3:G, Alkalinity,2,1) + VLOOKUP(H3:H,Calcium,2,1) - 12.1),))
All the other sheets have the exact same set up and use a query to grab just that pool's data exactly like I did for DiveTank. If you look at the sheet DSM in cell M3 it has the same formula that DiveTank uses yet it doesn't work at all.
It seems to get stuck trying to VLOOKUP the Named Range in the sheet LSI-Indexcalled Alkalinity. I also tested the other VLOOKUPs and the only named range that seems to work is the Temperature. I even tried just using the actual range like so:
VLOOKUP(H3:H, 'LSI-Index'!C4:D38,2,1)
I still get this error even if 100 is in the range:
ERROR: Did not find value "100" in VLOOKUP evaluation.
AI: Try formatting Water Tests as Number, Number. |
H: Google spreadsheet - QUERY changes time format
I have this column with amounts of time (format set to number > duration), if I made a query of that column I get it with a different time format and I'm not able to set the proper format back again. It automatically goes from duration to time, and if I apply the duration format it changes my values, please see the example:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZLdWXp6mLD32TcWSFSzFJuikPSC1kzbFvJg3JOLjGgA/edit?usp=sharing
Any ideas?
AI: Please format A3 as Duration and ColumnF as h:mm:ss. |
H: How to sort Gmail emails but have unread appear in inbox
That title is a bit of a mouthful.
Anyhow my issue is this: I can automatically apply labels to certain types of emails as they come into my inbox; but I have to file them away separately once I'm finished reading them (a real pain).
Alternatively I can apply labels to them and have them skip the inbox, but in this case I may end up not reading ones that are unopened (somewhat alarming!)
I thought that skipping inbox and applying a star would sort the issue; as I have specified that starred items should appear in the inbox. Then, when I've finished reading them, I could unstar them (not ideal, but a damn site easier than dragging them to their respective folders to file them!) However, this doesn't seem to work! Starred items only seem to appear in my inbox only if I have manually starred them.
Any ideas?
AI: It appears that you have a misunderstanding of one of the best features of Gmail: labels.
Every message when Gmail ingests starts with the Inbox label. You can use filters to add labels to them, or in your case stars. If you tell Gmail to skip the inbox it strips the Inbox label from the message. Messages can have multiple labels, which is a great feature compared to folders.
When you are done working with the message all you have to do is select it and then click Archive, or if the message is already open click Archive. the archive button simply removes the inbox label. There is no need to drag the messages any where. The other labels are still attached to the message.
Removing the inbox label doesn't delete the message, it still exists. They can be found by searching for them using label:mylabelname. All messages not deleted are found in All Mail. You can even use the Multiple Inboxes to quickly focus in on all messages with that label, or just click on the label when you have a message open. |
H: Click cell in Google Sheets to open data in popup
Is it possible to have a cell that just says "click me" or whatever, which opens a popup so you can see the full data?
I want to keep all my data contained in one row per item, but one cell per item has a lot of information that would cause the row to then expand and be large.
Ideally I'd like to put a mini-spreadsheet inside the popup, but I doubt that's possible.
What are my options for containing a lot of data in one cell, which the user must click to access?
AI: Try "Insert Notes" or "Insert Comment" options. Right click on any cell and enter the note or comment. These two options should open a small window of text that you have entered when you click or move the mouse cursor on top of it.
You can also edit the 'Comment'. Please refer the screenshot below. |
H: Facebook sharer.php not updating shared information after page update
I am using the URL https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://example.com/" to allow users to share my website by sending users browsing my site to the aforementioned link.
However, after updating my page Open Graph HTML my page is not scraped and the content displayed in the Facebook Content sharer does not update.
What should I do?
AI: According to this page: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button, normally, Facebook only scrapes your site for Open Graph information once a day. You need to manually go to the Facebook Debugger Tool https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ and paste your URL into the box and click on the Debug button and then on the Fetch new scrape information button each time you update your page's Open Graph information to see the updates in the Facebook sharer page once you update your HTML.
There is also one particular Facebook scraper bug to watch out for. Sometimes, even when the Open Graph Image and related information specified in the head section of an HTML page is correct, upon hitting the Fetch new scrape information you may get the following error message:
og:image could not be downloaded or is too small
If your image fits the Facebook guidelines and you're still getting this message, then just hit the Fetch new scrape information button a few more times and it will go away (or, even if it does not, you can safely ignore the message).
Also, when embedding your Facebook sharing URL inside HTML, remember to URL-encode it. For your example, the HTML should be something like:
<a
href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F"
target="_blank">
<img src="share-button.png" alt="Share on Facebook" />
</a>
If after doing these things, the sharing feature still won't work, then paste the following link in the Facebook Debugger Tool (with the fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING query string field) and click on the Debug button to clear the cache, then paste http://www.example.com/ into the field to reload the OG data into the Facebook servers:
http://www.example.com?fbrefresh=CAN_BE_ANYTHING |
H: How to check if a Google Books item is in the public domain without API?
I know the Google Books API, but if for whatever reason I can't access it, how do I check whether a book is in the public domain?
For whatever reason, Google doesn't think this is an information worth of the information pages or of the advanced book search.
AI: Google doesn't guarantee copyright status etc. etc., but in the HTML of the book description you can find a lot of information enclosed in a script tag, for example:
<script>_OC_addFlags(... {"volume_id":"qyi8-5g8dzAC","is_ebook":true,"volumeresult": ... ,"sample_url": ... ,"is_browsable":true,"is_public_domain":true}, ...);</script>
Checking for is_public_domain should be ok.
Of course you're really supposed to use the API, in the example:
"accessInfo": {
"country": "IT",
"viewability": "ALL_PAGES",
"embeddable": true,
"publicDomain": true,
"textToSpeechPermission": "ALLOWED",
"epub": {
"isAvailable": false
}, |
H: Why can't I paste into comments in Facebook in Firefox?
For more than 3 months Ctrl+V doesn't work when I want to paste something into Facebook comments. I can only drag and drop into the comment box. But my friends say they don't have problems with it...
Upon Ctrl+V the UI screws up and the caret doesn't insert characters where it blinks, also home and end and other navigation buttons begin to scroll the page instead the caret in that edit box. Only way to get out of there is refreshing the whole page. Looks like the whole edit control is controlled and implemented in JS.
If I create a new firefox profile, it works. So I'm suspicious that some addon causes the problem. But I don't want to lose my entire profile by starting a new one just for the sake of Facebook's stupid tricks.
So what I tried so far:
Delete all cookies and the entire browser history: no avail.
Erased the browser cache: no avail.
Disabled all addons (although I uninstalled none): no avail.
What else can be screwed up? Maybe disabled addons still have an effect on the browser?
I'd like understand what happens and fix the problem based on that instead of the usual "try format your hdd and reinstall you OS" tips, other forums often give.
AI: Restarting Firefox in Safe Mode didn't fixed the problem. So the least destructive way was choosing "Refresh Firefox" and reinstalling add-ons I need. Now Ctrl+V seems to work in Facebook. I don't know what caused the problem. Probably someone else could give a more detailed answer which I will accept. |
H: How to download the wikicode of a Wikipedia page?
I want to download the wikicode of this Wikipedia article with a single Web request.
Is there any better way than getting https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paris&action=edit and filtering the content of the <textarea>?
In particular, how to do this with the REST API?
AI: Passing action=raw is the best way to obtain just the wikitext of a page, although it can be done with the API. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paris&action=raw for example and the MediaWiki docs. |
H: Can I display a nested label in the parent label?
I have a label 'alpha' and under that I have nested 'abc' and 'def'.
When I tag an email with label "alpha/abc" and I open label "alpha", why don't I see that email?
I only see the emails tagged with "alpha" and none of the messages tagged with the child label.
AI: You will need to add the parent label as well, even if the sub-label is supposed to be nesting.
When you look at the list of labels, you will see the parent and sub-label (or child label) as separate choices.
This is why when you click on a parent label it will only show emails tagged with that. It will not include messages "under" that tag.
That hierarchy is mostly for visual organising instead of applying to all child messages. |
H: How do I concatenate a string literal of my cell to a string of another cell?
I am trying to make life easier for myself by organising my teaching materials for private tutees of mine from various subjects/educational levels in google spreadsheets.
I want to know how I can take a string literal such as "Paper " and concatenate it to the string of characters as they appear in another cell using a formula.
AI: It looks like you want the & operator
I'm not quite clear which thing you are concatenating to which in the question; however, you can do either
=$BJ$2 & "24"
or
=$BJ$2 & BH1
or
="Paper" & BH1
assuming you are on row 2 and the number is on row 1 (the $ locks the cell so that it doesn't change when copying/pasting).
Here's an example with a test spreadsheet: |
H: Google Presentation converted to PowerPoint presentation fonts look different
I want to download a Google Presentation as a PowerPoint presentation. I want the PowerPoint presentation to be the exact copy of the Google one except the fact that it is a PowerPoint file.
I was able to download the Google one into a PowerPoint with File > Download as > Microsoft PowerPoint(.pptx) option from my Google Presentation window. But the downloaded presentation appears to be different from the original presentation.
The fonts of the downloaded presentation is not the same as the original Google Presentation.
Original Font:
Downloaded Font:
Please help me to download an exact copy of my Google Presentation as a PowerPoint presentation.
PostScript: I googled about downloading google presentation. But the search results weren't helpful.
AI: You may not have the correct and matching fonts installed on your local computer.
If you download a presentation and the fonts do not look the same, or the computer changes them to something else, you need to go back to the Google Presentation and find out the font name of the text that looks different.
Then you need to download and install the relevant/missing fonts on your computer. After that, the Presentation will look like it did. |
H: How to block a game on Facebook?
This question is similar to this SE question which asks about how to "block all app & game invitations (once and for all)". My question is different: it asks about how to "block a particular, single game app". More details about what I'm after follow:
It's been months now that almost every single day I keep on getting annoying requests from some of my friends on Facebook to play a game called "Candy Crush Saga". At first, I thought my friends would go through their list of friends and send invitation to each one of them they wanted to play the game with explicitly, or maybe just bulk-invite them by pressiong one big button on the game's user interface. However, now I'm completely annoyed, and would like to block the game altogether. At least, due to frustration that's the way I've come to perceive things by just looking at the notifications area of Facebook's user interface.
So, my question is: What's the reality of what's going on, and how do I block a single app from posting notifications from within the timeline?
AI: When you receive a Facebook notification to play a Facebook game in the Facebook web browser agent interface notifications area, move the mouse pointer over to the right-hand-side of the notification for the game you want to block in the notification list. Hover over the x so that the message Turn Off is displayed and click on the x. If the game is, say, Candy Crush Saga, you will see the message:
Turn off notifications from Candy Crush Saga?
Click on the Turn Off button. |
H: Subclauses in formulas?
Quite often I end up including the same calculation in a formula twice, like this:
=if(iserror(vlookup("lookup",SheetX!A2:X350,5,false)),"",vlookup("lookup",SheetX!A2:X350,5,false))
I'd like to remove the duplication without cluttering my sheet with endless hidden columns. Is there some way to embed a subclause in a formula? Something like this?
=if(iserror(myLookup),"",myLookup)
where
myLookup = vlookup("lookup",SheetX!A2:X350,5,false)
AI: A match is going to be found for lookup or it is not going to be found so two vlookups are not necessary. In general what you seek is not possible, though where you want a response to be the result of one ‘clause’ or a different responses where that ‘clause’ returns an error there is the option of the iferror function. So your formula might be rewritten, and shortened:
=iferror(vlookup(A1,SheetX!A2:X350,5,0),"") |
H: Twitter URL sharer: what does the 'Recommend @' field do?
I would like to know what the 'Recommend @' field does on the Twitter URL sharer at https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons#tweet. The information appears in one of the HTML data tags, but then when I click on the Tweet button to preview the tweet nothing related to @JaneDoe shows up in the Tweet text (see image below).
<a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://www.example.com/" data-text="Yo,check out this site!!!" data-via="JohnDoe" data-size="large" data-related="JaneDoe" data-count="none" data-hashtags="AboutTheDoes">Tweet</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');</script>
Here is the format of the URL which can be used by Twitter users to tweet about a web page (taken from the popup window shown above):
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?hashtags=JohnDoeHashtag&original_referer=JohnDoeRefererURLEncoded&related=RelatedTwitterUserJaneDoe&text=MyTextHere&tw_p=tweetbutton&url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F&via=JohnDoe
Some of the fields are optional and are most likely used by Twitter for tracking purposes.
AI: "JaneDoe" shows up in the data-related part of the tweet link. This information is used after the tweet button has been clicked to display the "suggested people to follow" prompt.
There is some more detail in the tweet button developer documentation. |
H: How do I get a date formatted as YYY-MM-DD from a cell for using in a script?
I have a problem getting a date from a cell in my Google Spreadsheet. I would like to access A3 in the sheet Dates, which holds the date 01/12/2013, and re-use that as variable start-date in the below mentioned script.
function fetchMAP28() {
// our query object
var query = {
"optionalArgs": {
"dimensions": "ga:date",
"max-results": "50"
},
"ids": "",
"metrics": "ga:users,ga:goal1Completions",
"start-date":"Here I like the date from the cell",
"end-date": "yesterday"
};
var results = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(
query.ids,
query['start-date'],
query['end-date'],
query.metrics,
query.optionalArgs
);
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("dataMAP");
outputToSpreadsheet(results, sheet);
}
AI: So you want to get a value from your spreadsheet, and use it in your script?
I have added a couple of lines at the top of your script, and used startDate to populate the query object:
function fetchMAP28() {
var range = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Dates").getRange("A3");
var startDate = range.getValue();
// Note the timezone is GMT+1 - you should adjust it to your locale
var formattedStartDate = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(startDate), "GMT+1", "yyyy/MM/dd")
// our query object
var query = {
"optionalArgs": {
"dimensions": "ga:date",
"max-results": "50"
},
"ids": "",
"metrics": "ga:users,ga:goal1Completions",
"start-date": formattedStartDate,
"end-date": "yesterday"
};
var results = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(query.ids, query['start-date'], query['end-date'], query.metrics, query.optionalArgs);
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("dataMAP");
outputToSpreadsheet(results, sheet);
}
The variable formattedStartDate contains the string 2013-12-01. |
H: What authentication methods are supported for Cognito Forms connecting to Sharepoint?
Trying to connect a Cognito form to a Sharepoint Foundation 2013 list, I get:
Cannot connect: invalid settings.
The Sharepoint site is using Forms-based authentication with a custom role/membership provider.
I have tried with FBA credentials as well as a Windows Auth account, and neither work.
I also tried changing the URL—using the top-level URL of the site collection as well as the direct URL to the list, plus a few other permutations, and none seemed to work.
Is connecting to a Sharepoint list not supported in this environment? What else would I do to troubleshoot connection problems?
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms responsible for the SharePoint integration features.
Unfortunately, Cognito Forms does not currently support authentication with SharePoint web applications that utilize forms-based authentication. Supported authentication methods include Windows authentication for on-premises SharePoint web applications and SharePoint Online/Office 365 cloud-based authentication.
After some research, we believe we will be able to add support for multi-authentication SharePoint web applications by adding a custom authentication header to our web service request to force our system to authenticate using Windows authentication - detailed here. This would require your forms-based SharePoint web application to also have Windows Authentication enabled. Is this the case for your web application? |
H: Use Google Translate without mouse
When I want to translate something i do this:
Open browser
Write translate into searchbar. This makes the translator come up.
Click on the "input text" window
write something that should be translated.
It frustrates me that I have to use my mouse to do step 3. Is there a way to avoid doing this?
It's obviously nothing big, but it would save me a couple of seconds now and then.
AI: Just hit Tab a few times until the cursor is in the input field.
If you use translate.google.com in step 2, you'll go to the full Google Translate page. There, the cursor starts out in the input field. |
H: How to import JSON data into a Google spreadsheet?
Google Sheets has an IMPORTXML function to import data from various structured data types including XML, HTML, CSV, TSV, and RSS and ATOM XML feeds.
Is there a similar way to import JSON formatted data?
AI: Currently there is no any Add-on which offer this functionality, so you have to create or import custom functions by Script Editor available in Tools menu (for Spreadsheet). Then re-paste the content of ImportJSON.gs from bradjasper's GitHub page and save it.
After that, you can use ImportJSON function, for example:
=ImportJSON("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular?v=2&alt=json", "/feed/entry/title,/feed/entry/content", "noInherit,noTruncate,rawHeaders")
Here is another example:
=split(concatenate(ImportJSON("https://api.binance.com/api/v1/klines?symbol=BTCUSDT&interval=1m&limit=1")), ",")
Read more:
The ImportJSON library at Fast Fedora
Import JSON data into Google Spreadsheet at Stackoverflow
Custom Functions in Google Sheets at Google Developers |
H: How to map a site from an aliased domain?
I use the free version of Google Apps (set up before it stopped to be free) to handle the emails and gdrive for two domains: example1.com (primary) and example2.com (aliased). My account joe@example1.com is admin and I add users via the administration concole from that account.
I want to set up a site for my son via Google Sites: http://www.example2.com. I have no problem in creating and maping sites in example1.com but I do not know how to do the same in example2.com.
When looking at my sites list in example1.com I see that the URL is https://sites.google.com/a/example1.com. I tried to change this to https://sites.google.com/a/example2.com but I get the message
You are trying to access Google Admin of example2.com but you do not
have a valid logged in account for it.
Sign into one of the existing accounts for example2.com
Or, use one of the below logged in users to manage the corresponding
enterprise domain.
(.) joe@example1.com
When choosing Continue (the only choice) I get to my admin console.
What is the correct way to set up a site on an aliased domain? (I assume that the mapping exercise is the same afterwards)
AI: I am afraid that this is finally impossible. Per "Limitations with multiple domains" it looks like that
You can only create a custom web address mapping for a site at the primary domain.
I would appreciate very much any ideas and will leave the question as unresolved for now. |
H: How to disable gmail important?
I mainly use gmail through IMAP. For somereason gmail has been skipping the inbox and going straight to important with some messages. I don't use important so might as well disable it. Where is the setting to disable it?
AI: Please login to your gmail and follow steps :
1 - Login to your gmail
2 - Go to setting
3 - Go to Labels
4 - You will get label "Important" with option Show & Hide , You can Hide it from here. |
H: How to remove the header from a Google document once added
Once you add a header to a Google document, it offsets the top of the document even if empty, and receives click events. How can you then remove the header?
I am aware that you can reduce the header's effects by decreasing the page's top margin, and reducing the font size in the header—those are not the solutions I am looking for. I would like a way to actually REMOVE it.
AI: edit
There's an Add-on available that removes the header or footer in the active document only once added:
Documents by Top Contributors
Goto your Google Document and choose from the menu Add-ons > Get add-ons... and search for:
Affiliation: I wrote the add-on
The following line of code will reset the header (gray line disappears).
Code
function onOpen() {
DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu("Header / Footer")
.addItem("Reset header", "resetHeader")
.addItem("Reset footer", "resetFooter")
.addToUi()
}
function resetHeader() {
try {
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getHeader().removeFromParent();
} catch(e) {
throw "No header present !!";
}
}
function resetFooter() {
try {
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getFooter().removeFromParent();
} catch(e) {
throw "No footer present !!";
}
}
Screenshot
before
after
Note
I've noticed that after running the script (and thus removing the header or footer), adding them wasn't possible on the document I was working on.
Add the code under Tools > Script editor..., press the bug button to authenticate the script and then press the play button. This will "play" the code and reset the header.
edit
See Google Help Forum for an extensive walk-through: How to remove the header in Google Docs? |
H: How do I revoke access to Twitter logged in from another site?
When using Twitter to log in to a site it wants to give that site certain abilities.
How may that be taken back if it's regretted?
I've already unfollowed some people that I didn't follow myself (maybe I'm just forgetful) and I want to take back the abilities from anyone who got them.
AI: Go to your profile and settings on the Twitter website, select "Apps" from the list on the left, pick the app you don't want and select "Revoke Access". |
H: Google spreadsheet formula using If() And() Or() Statement
I need help with a Google spreadsheet formula. This is what I'm trying to do:
If (A3 = X) and C3 is not any of the following choices in this list ("Ready for QA Testing on Stage","Deployed to Production","Ready for Deployment","Ready for QA Testing on Trunk") then show "Yes" otherwise show "No"
This is the formula I came up with. It doesn't return an error, but it's not filtering out the choices in the second part of the equation. I'm assuming because the <> is used for numeric and not text? Please help!!!
=If(and(A3 = "X",OR(C3<>"Ready for QA Testing on Stage",C3<>"Deployed to Production",C3<>"Ready for Deployment",C3<>"Ready for QA Testing on Trunk")),"Yes","No")
Here is a read-only link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zOt7Tn3n8yzfVPTmj9AhBOQLvJexIY-i-HIKSPb0YiQ/edit?usp=sharing
The formula is in column B. The only one in column B that should be "Yes" is B14, but as you can see B2, B6, B9 are all yes's as well.
AI: It seemed simpler to put the conditions in a range (named TestR) and then use:
=if(or(iserror(match(C3,TestR,0)),A3<>"X"),"No","Yes")
I have opted for a shorter formula, mainly by hiving off the four ‘list’ items into a named range. Rather than mix AND and OR I opted for just OR by testing for all the possibilities that should give rise to a “No” result. These are that the ColumnC value is not in the list (by trying to match it to the list and failing) as one possibility and that the ColumnA value is not “X” as the other possibility. Otherwise “Yes” should be returned.
The formula you tried has at its core a long OR function. The syntax for this is valid, the problem is with the logic. OR will return TRUE if any of its tests return true, provided none of them returns an error. You have four tests, so that part of your formula might be represented as =or(does not contain 1, does not contain 2, does not contain 3, does not contain 4).
Whichever of 1, 2, 3 and 4 (or indeed nothing or 0 or k etc) is contained, three at least of the four tests will PASS (if say it contains 4 then indeed it will not contain 3, etc). When the OR part is included in the rest of your formula it really contributes nothing, just the possibility of an error. Ignoring the error possibility, the overall result then is effectively the same as:
=if(A3="X","Yes","No")
Adjusting to A2 from A3 (so the formula may be entered in B2 where seems first required, then copied down) it may be seen that the OP’s formula merely returns Yes if there is an X in the cell immediately to its left, and in all other cases No.
What seems to be required is “contains” for the tests, rather than “does not contain”, so some small adjustments should be sufficient:
=If(and(A2 = "X",OR(C2="Ready for QA Testing on Stage",C2="Deployed to Production",C2="Ready for Deployment",C2="Ready for QA Testing on Trunk")),"Yes","No") |
H: What is the submitter button on Reddit?
The [S] button in the image below is labeled as submitter
What does it do? I click on it but nothing happens.
AI: I found this help page for "what is submitter reddit next to my name".
The [S] indicates that I'm the original poster, the one who started the page/link discussion, equivalent to having my name highlighted on Stack Exchange.
A comment of V2Blast:
In general, if you see an "S", "F", "M", "A", or "Δ" (delta), you can hover over it to see what it means.
(In order, those are "submitter", "friend" (you can add them as a friend from their userpage to more quickly recognize their posts), "moderator", "admin", and "admin emeritus" (former admin).) |
H: Pre-fill field with query parameter
I'd like to pass a query parameter to the form so that it pre-fills at least one of the fields.
Is this possible when embedding on a website?
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
You can pre-fill select fields on your form by modifying the embed code that you place on your website.
First off lets start with your normal embed code:
<div class="cognito">
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/include/required"></script>
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/session/script/iibc3e48-82t9-4642-b097-dp442bc9d123"></script>
<script>Cognito.load("forms", { id: "1" });</script>
</div>
We will be adding new code to the line that contains the script tag:
<script>Cognito.load("forms", { id: "1" });</script>
We will be pre-filling a name field, by targeting the field by label name, in this case "Name":
<script>Cognito.load("forms", { id: "1", entry: {Name: {First: "John", Last: "Smith" } });</script>
We are targeting the field "Name" and we are setting the value for "First" to John, and the value for "Last" to smith.
Once added your new embed code will look like this:
<div class="cognito">
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/include/required"></script>
<script src="https://services.cognitoforms.com/session/script/iibc3e48-82t9-4642-b097-dp442bc9d123"></script>
<script>Cognito.load("forms", { id: "1", entry: {Name: {First: "John", Last: "Smith" } });</script>
</div>
The Name field is not the only field that can be pre-filled. You can use this method on any of our other fields, with the exception of the File Upload field. |
H: Auto increment ID in Google Forms
I am designing a Google Form for managing a congress registration process. I need to have a unique ID number for each registration and I found an answear here: Can I add an autoincrement field to a Google Spreadsheet based on a Google Form?
It was certainly very useful, but there is one litle problem I cannot solve. As the form has non required fields, the answears are different in length, so the ID is placed in different columns. I think the line in the code that controls the column where the ID is placed is this one:
21. var column = eventRange.getLastColumn() + 1;
Is there a way to place the ID in a specific column, say column C?
AI: Just replace eventRange.getLastColum() + 1 with a number. Column A is 1, B is 2 etc.
So if you want the ID to be placed in column C, change the code to
var column = 3; |
H: How do I download images from Google Keep?
I shared an image from my phone to Google Keep. I open it on the Google Keep Chrome application. But there's no download option.
How do I download images from Google Keep? Is there a work-around?
AI: I'm not sure about the Chrome Application, but you can access your "Keeps" directly by navigating to https://keep.google.com
From there find the note that contains your image...
Open the note
Click the image (to display just the image)
Right mouse and "Save image as..." (in Chrome)
This saved the original (8mp) image for me, not a reduced-for-web version that you might expect using this method. |
H: How to align objects in draw.io?
Is there a possibility to select multiple objects and then i) align them such that they have a common center line and ii) distribute them evenly, such that the vertical spacing between them is evenly?
AI: Select the vertices, select "Arrange" on the right-hand side panel, click the alignment option you required. |
H: How to resize a draw.io text box automatically to fit the text?
I am new to draw.io, and find it tedious that after inserting a text box and typing text in it, I have to manually resize the text box such that the entire text fits in. Is there a shortcut to automatically resize the text box, such that it fits the text exactly?
AI: You can autosize from the Arrange menu. It supports the operation on multiple cells: |
H: How to VLOOKUP in a QUERY
I Have this sheet with raw data, basically names, dates, amounts of money and if they paid or not (this is the most important). What I am trying to do is to have in another sheet the same table but showing the rows of the people who hasn't paid (filter by a "NO" in "paid" column), and if in the Raw data sheet the value in Paid is changed from NO to YES that row disappears in the "Filtered" sheet.
I am trying to make a VLOOKUP in a query but with no success, any help?
Example Sheet.
AI: Please try:
=query(Data!A1:D7,"select * where B ='NO' ") |
H: key triggers "Next" button in multiple pages form
Impossible to go to the next line in a multiple line textbox because Enter key triggers the "Next" button.
Is there a workaround for this?
AI: I'm a developer at Cognito Forms. Unfortunately, there is a problem with our keyboard navigation logic for multi-page forms as it relates to multi line textbox. We are currently working hard on our localization support release that will include a fix for this issue. We apologize for this inconvenience. |
H: How can I set the number of keepers allowed in Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball?
I have renewed my long-running fantasy baseball league. The league is set as a "keeper" league, but I can't find the screen where I can specify how many roster spots can be kept.
How can I set the number of keepers allowed in Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball?
AI: From Yahoo! support (emphasis mine):
Hello Jeromy,
Thank you for contacting Yahoo Fantasy Sports. I appreciate your
inquiry regarding keepers. I'll be happy to clarify the situation.
There is no ability to specify how many keepers can be kept. It will be up to you as commissioner to ensure the appropriate number of
keepers are kept for each team using the approve keeper players
tool.
When a league declares a keeper declaration deadline, once
that deadline passes the commissioner can use the Confirm Keeper
Players tool to review the keepers submitted by each team, change them
if needed to comply with league rules, and eventually confirm that the
keeper declaration is complete, publishing the results.
Please note: The commissioner is required to complete this process prior to a
scheduled live draft, or the draft will fail to run. If the
commissioner changes any of the team's keepers, this change will be
noted in a transaction to improve league communication and discourage
unethical changes by the commissioner.
Please note: If your Keeper
Declaration Deadline is in the future, or if you have not finalized
your team list, you will not be able to confirm keepers. To approve
keepers:
Commissioners should log in to your Fantasy league.
In the "Fantasy" tab drop-down menu, select the league you want to work on.
Select the Commish Tools tab.
In the "Keeper Management" section, select Approve Keeper Players.
Review and edit the keepers selected by each team. To edit a team's keepers, click the Edit Keepers button beneath the team's roster.
When you are done reviewing and making any changes, select Approve All Keepers and proceed to edit your league's draft. Note: The Confirm
Keeper Players tool is available until approximately one hour prior to
the start of your draft. Additional information on this, and other
Yahoo products, can be found on the Yahoo help page.
If you have any further concerns regarding this issue Jeromy, please
let me know and I will be happy to assist you. |
H: Line-breaks in multiple-line textbox won't show in email notifications
Line-breaks in multiple line textbox will show as a single line in email notifications. Is there a workaround for this?
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
The same issue occurs when including the field in a content area on the form or the confirmation page. I will cover some of the possible solutions to this. Please comment on this answer to provide feedback.
The text captured from a multiple line textbox contains line breaks, but HTML just treats these as spaces, so when shown in a content field or HTML email message, the line breaks are ignored.
The line breaks cannot be converted into HTML tags when edited, as this would mess up other usages of the data, like exports to Excel, which rely on the data existing as entered. Also, we have logic in place to prevent HTML and script injection attacks that would remove this content anyway, which is in place to protect our customers.
We could convert line breaks to tags when building email messages and content areas on the form for these fields. This would leave the data intact. However, this would only apply to line breaks (no other formatting) and also would not be something that could be turned off.
We could also add optional support for markdown (similar to what I am typing now) and support both line breaks and a variety of limited syntax formatting. The advantage to this is it would be an option that could be turned off, but is not obvious to most users.
Again, definitely an issue with no workaround at present, but hopefully this provides some perspective on the issues and possible solutions. Please let us know your thoughts. |
H: Numeric before query but query results are not a numbers
I have a column of values, let's say column A, that if I do =isnumber on any of the column data it returns TRUE.
Now after I =query and select A, the query gives me the right values, but the type has changed. Now if I do =isnumber on the column it gives me FALSE
I even tried to * 1 to column A (i.e., select A * 1) the error is the following:
Error: Unable to parse query string for Function QUERY parameter 2: Can't perform the function product on values that are not numbers
Well clearly 1 is a number and column A is a number; I just used =isnumber on it, and the return is TRUE.
My query is pretty big, but I don't think it should affect anything. I'm going out to column CZ and there are about 1000 rows.
AI: Sorry I can't share the spreadsheet. And I probably can't replicate the error. But I found a solution and I wanted to share it for people who also have big spreadsheets that encounter this error. The problem is that some of the columns start with a number as the first observation and some of them don't. The ones that don't some are blank for 100 rows before a number shows up. It seems that Google does not treat the column as a number if the first row is not a number for very large spreadsheets.
So the solution is to sort it, this way the numbers will show up at the time and Google will treat the column as values.
Don't ask me why this works. It just does. |
H: How do I get a weekday 12 weeks ago using in a Google script?
I'm having the following formula:
=TODAY()-WEEKDAY(TODAY(),3)-84
and this gives me Monday, 12 weeks ago.
I'm working on this code, but it gives me only a certain days back
var twelweWeekAgo = new Date(today.getTime() - 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
var startDate = Utilities.formatDate(
oneWeekAgo,
Session.getScriptTimeZone(),
'yyyy-MM-dd'
);
AI: This piece of code does the same.
Code
function getPastweeks(weeks) {
var cDate = new Date();
return new Date(cDate.getTime() - getMs(weeks) - getCorr(cDate.getDay()));
}
function getCorr(day) {
return day >= 1 ? getMs(day - 1) / 7 : getMs(6) / 7;
}
function getMs(value) {
return value * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
}
Screenshot
Example
I've created an example file for you: How do I get a weekday 12 weeks ago |
H: How to set a formula for a entire column?
I need to apply a simple formula into a entire column, this is to prevent having to keep pasting the formula into said column when i add a row...
=IFERROR(D1-C1)
is the formula that i want to fill the entire column G.
AI: Use:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(D:D-C:C, "error")) |
H: Can non-friends in a closed Facebook group, see each other's individual Facebook pages/timelines?
I want to set up a closed Facebook group for a group of professional colleagues to communicate and collaborate on a project. But most of these people are not already Friends on Facebook, nor will they likely want to be. I gather we can invite each other via email, but my central question is: once we're all in a closed group, does that mean we can see personal info and posts about each other that are on our respective individual FB pages? If the answer is yes, I need to find another mechanism as people will understandably not want to participate in the group.
AI: What you can see on a person's Facebook profile all depends on that person's privacy settings. If you are not friends with them, then you won't see anything that has a privacy setting of "Friends", but you will see things that have a privacy setting of "Public" or possibly "Friends of Friends" (if you are friends with their friends). The fact that you are in the same closed group as them has nothing to do with what you can see on their profile.
I verified this by looking at the profiles of various people (who are not my friends) in the same closed group as me. The only things I could see on their profiles were things that they posted with a privacy setting of "Public". |
H: GoogleDrive: Cannot move file outside the folder
I have nested folders in my google drive.
My Drive/
...
Shared with Me/
Folder1/
folder11/
filex
filey
folder12/
filez
I want to move filey in to folder12 but in the current web interface "move to" only allows me to move this file outside of shared to My Drive.
I created the folders 11 and 12 and put the files inside there so their shouldn't be any permission issues. Is there a way I can achieve this problem without downloading the drive desktop client?
AI: In order to move the file, you'll need to add it to "My Drive". Until you do that it's only shared with you and you don't have rights to do much of anything with it.
Click the "Add to My Drive" icon/link. Then you should be able to do what you want. |
H: How can I add special text format on GitHub?
I am trying to add text formatted in a special way to a GitHub repo on README.md file but it is not rendering the text format the way I want it.
I have attached images below.
I want it to look like this:
BUT this is how it is rendering it:
So how can I achieve my goal?
AI: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/
Put four spaces before each line. |
H: Sharing a Google Document with multiple email addresses and preventing recipients from seeing the list of email addresses
Is there any way to share a Google Document with multiple email addresses in such a way that recipients cannot see the list of email addresses I shared the document with?
By default upon sharing the Google Document, all recipients are CC in the same e-mails (well done Google...). I would like them to be BCC.
AI: It is not possible to share a document from within Google Documents and have it BCC all the recipients. This is a feature that has been requested a lot over the past several years on the Google product forums (e.g. here, here, here, and here), and so far Google has not implemented it.
I saw a couple people in those threads mention a workaround that will only work if you want to share a document to people with "can view" access. In that case, you share the document with "Can view" access to everyone but do not select the "Notify people via email" box. Then you take the link to the document and send it in a regular email to everyone in the Bcc line.
That workaround will not work if you want to share a document to people with "can edit" access. This is because anyone with edit access can click on the document's "Share" button and see all the other editors' email addresses. |
H: how to add logo to background in Trello?
The Unreal Engine Trello has the Unreal logo in the background.
https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap
How does one put a logo in the background color?
AI: You need to have a paid-for Trello Gold or Business-Class account. Then you can upload your own background images, as well as do a bunch of other things. |
H: Conversion from object to string in Google Apps Script
I'm trying to take information from Google Sheets and use it to send an email with the information given in sheets. I have the email part down, but when I try to editAsText to delete unwanted characters it won't allow me to. Here is what I am trying to accomplish:
var start = row[5];
returns: Fri Feb 20 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (SAST)
and I want to edit that to be:
Fri Feb 20 2015
AI: You're basically wanting to format a date.
I would act on the JavaScript Date object, something like:
var startDate = new Date(row[5]);
var weekDay;
switch (startDate.getDay()) {
case 0: weekDay = "Sun"; break;
case 1: weekDay = "Mon"; break;
case 2: weekDay = "Tue"; break;
case 3: weekDay = "Wed"; break;
case 4: weekDay = "Thu"; break;
case 5: weekDay = "Fri"; break;
case 6: weekDay = "Sat"; break;
}
var month;
switch (startDate.getMonth()) {
case 0: month = "Jan"; break;
case 1: month = "Feb"; break;
case 2: month = "Mar"; break;
case 3: month = "Apr"; break;
case 4: month = "May"; break;
case 5: month = "Jun"; break;
case 6: month = "Jul"; break;
case 7: month = "Aug"; break;
case 8: month = "Sep"; break;
case 9: month = "Oct"; break;
case 10: month = "Nov"; break;
case 11: month = "Dec"; break;
}
var formattedDate = weekDay + " " + month + " " + startDate.getDate() + " " + startDate.getFullYear();
The variable formattedDate now holds a string like Fri Feb 20 2015.
If you want to do this by manipulating strings instead, and you're not concerned with the language settings of the spreadsheet, you could use
var startDate = row[5] + "";
var formattedDate = startDate.substring(0, 15); |
H: How to generate a random string?
I need to create a random string of 8 characters for every row in Google Spreadsheet.
Basically string should contain letters and numbers upper and low case only, example:
LZJ2cuWT
Any idea how to do it without using Add-On?
AI: You might try:
=CHOOSE(RANDBETWEEN(1,2),CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(65,90)),
CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(97,122)))&
CHOOSE(RANDBETWEEN(1,2),CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(65,90)),
CHAR(RANDBETWEEN(97,122)))
strung together with & three more times.
@Cornelius Roemer is correct so despite my misgivings about mixing 0 and O and 1 and l in a case like this, suggest as an alternative:
=offset($A$1,randbetween(0,61),)
concatenated as many times as the number of characters required in each set and copied wherever required.
However this depends upon a lookup table in ColumnA, which might be constructed so:
In A1 copied down to Row75: =char(row()+47)
Ctrl+C then Ctrl+Shift+V
Delete Rows11-17 then Rows 37-42. |
H: How do I get more info from Gmail's virus warning?
A customer reported that he's getting a Gmail virus warning while trying to e-mail around one of our applications. We believe it to be a false positive (as we've had a false positive with another scanner's heuristic engine because our application includes an installer).
I'd like to confirm that it's really not a virus of course (and other virus scanners don't find anything at the moment), but unfortunately Gmail just reports a less than helpful page and strips the attachment. Is there any way to get more information out of Gmail as to what exactly it thinks it found?
AI: There is no way to retrieve more information from Gmail's virus warning. One usual workaround is to compress the application into some format that is not analyzed by Gmail antivirus, such as 7z. |
H: Key to "Find Next" in Google Docs
When I press Ctrl+f on google docs, it lets me search the first occurrence of the string I enter, and it informs me about how many appearances of the string there are.
But What key(s) can I use to move to the next appearance? If I press F3 then the browser search functionality is triggered (at least using Chrome and Firefox)
AI: Ctrl+G (or ⌘+G) is the dedicated shortcut for this.
Source. |
H: Linking a URL to text using Google script in spreadsheet
I have a URL ready to be followed. I am sending an email using Google script, and in this email I need this link to be there but I do not want it to be:
http://example.com/this/is/very/ugly/when/it/comes/to/sending/emails
I would like it to be Example.
AI: You need to send HTML email to do that.
In Google Apps Script you do that by specifying a htmlBody element to the MailApp.sendMessage method:
MailApp.sendEmail({
to: "recipient@example.com",
subject: "Your link",
htmlBody: "Here is your example link: " +
"<a href=\"http://example.com/this/is/very/ugly/when/it/comes/to/sending/emails\">Example</a>"
});
See the documentation for MailApp.sendEmail. |
H: Some of my friends can't see my friends publications (restricted list?)
I remember that at some point I added a few friends to a "restricted list". Things seem to have changed now and I cannot seem to find a way to edit these settings.
Whenever I post something, next to the post it says "Shared with: your friends".
However, when a friend, say Bob, tags me and the post appears on my profile, it says:
This is Bob's post. It's been shared with: Bob's friends, and some of Xavier's friends
(Xavier is me). When I drill down, it says:
Who can see this?
On your timeline: Friends; Except: X, Y and Z
Everywhere else: Bob's friends and some of Xavier's friends
Now I wonder what I can change so that X, Y and Z can see these posts.
These people seem to only be added to normal friend lists.
Also, my "Restricted" friend list seem to be empty.
AI: Check what you have set in your Timeline and Tagging Settings. There is a setting there labeled "Who can see posts you've been tagged in on your timeline?" You can set both a "Share this with" and "Don't share this with" list. Payouts may have added X, Y and Z in there. |
H: Dots in email address of 'Gmail for work' service: are they ignored?
According to this Q&A https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20919325/should-i-remove-all-dots-before-the-sign-in-emails, 'dot' is a valid character in an email address.
But for Google's gmail service, they say they do not recognise 'dot'. Quoted from https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313?hl=en
Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours.
I am using 'Gmail for Work' at the moment. Let say my work domain is '@awesome.com'. To my surprise, 'j.e.n@awesome.com' caused a bounce from google. I am expecting the email will be delivered to 'jen@awesome.com'
Does 'Gmail for work' handle email address differently?
AI: Gmail for work/Google Apps accounts do count dots as part of the email address so the two address are unique. From this help article:
One last thing: Google Apps does recognize dots. If you'd like to have a dot in your username, please ask your domain administrator to add your preferred username as a nickname. |
H: How do I do simple time calculation in Google Spreadsheets?
I have a really simple question, I have searched online and for the life of me, cannot work out how to do this:
Calculate the total hours and minutes from a start time to a finish time?
Calculate the grand total hours and minutes?
I’ve shared the document below, please feel free to copy & edit if you have the correct answer?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K6NkBzcfdpWSkVThw48BXy52LWWwV4T6VEul2LuDqsU/edit?usp=sharing
AI: Try:
=mod(C2-B2,1)
and drag down as far as needed. Make sure the format the cells as duration.
For the 'total time' a simple sum should suffice. |
H: Facebook "posted by" not showing who posted
I have Facebook Fan page. There are 5 editors on this page who post news on it and I am the Admin.
I noticed today that the latest post does not show "posted by" and I don't know who are posted latest post on the page. Is it possible for editors to disable "Posted by" and How can I find who posted page latest post?
AI: One of the editors on the page deactivated his account after he had posted some content.
This way Facebook did not show "Posted by deactivated users" |
H: Calculating fields in confirmation email
Is it possible to:
Set a number value for a dropdown, but don't show it in the UI (can be in the source)?
Take the values from the multiple fields and multiply/add them and send the output in the confirmation email?
Looking to create a form that people can fill out and send them the quote in an email and not present them the pricing right away.
AI: I am a developer for Cognito Forms.
Although we don't have the ability to hide the price attached to a choice field, you can use a Calculation field.
I used a simple Choice field and a number field as shown below.
Next I added a Calculation field and gave it a simple name, I then set this field to show "internally" or "never". The calculation you will need to add to this field is below:
=(Choice = "First Choice" ? 10 : Choice = "Second Choice" ? 20 : Choice = "Third Choice" ? 30 : 0) * Quantity + " " + "Dollars"
This will take the choice option and assign it a numeric value (eg. 10, 20, 30) and then multiply that number by the number in the Quantity field. I am then adding the word "Dollars" to the end, this is to show that extra text can be added after the value has been calculated.
You can then navigate into your Submission Settings and enable the Confirmation option. You will need to be collecting the users email address so that you can assign the email field using the drop down under "To". In the message text block you can place your hidden Calculation field in your message, like this:
This will result in an email being sent to your user that looks like this: |
H: Why is it not possible to tweet the following phrase?
Why can I not tweet
M as in Mancy
I've tried on mobile and desktop, is there something wrong with that specific phrase? I know you can include that phrase in other tweets and it will work, but that phrase by itself (without spaces or other alterations) is untweetable.
AI: On Twitter,
M [username] + message
or
D [username] + message
sends that person a Direct Message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
Examples:
d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you're there?
or
m krissy wanna pick up a Jamba Juice for me while you're there?
performs the same action. So that's why your phrase can't be tweeted. |
H: Is it possible to embed a Google sheet's in a non google-site website?
I'm creating an internal site for my users and I don't want to be constricted by the limitations of hosting a site through Google sites.
But I also want to be able to embed Google documents and sheets.
Is this possible?
AI: It certainly is possible. On the Google spreadsheet you want to use, click on "File" and then "Publish to the web". This also applies to other file formats of the Google editors (documents, drawings and slides).
On the resulting popup, click on the "Publish" button and then on the "Embed" tab. You should see an iframe that can be copied onto any valid html page.
Copy the iframe and paste it somewhere on your site.
Editing
The above will provide a read-only view of the Google sheet. If you want your users to be able to edit the sheet, you'll need to share it with them or make it open to the public.
Once you've shared the sheet with the relevant parties, copy the link and replace the src in the iframe with the new link. You should then have something like the following:
References
Publish a document, spreadsheet, presentation, or drawing - Google Docs editors Help |
H: Google Sheets auto-format the highest value in a row of cells
I have a set of data like so:
A|B|C|D
1 9|3|5|4
2 7|6|6|6
3 3|6|2|7
4 6|9|4|7
And I would like to auto-format the highest value in each row. So, for instance in row 1, A1 would get the auto-format, row 2: A2, row 3: D3, row 4: B4. I have been playing with auto format using =percentrank(), but cannot get the hang of it.
AI: Ideal case for Conditional Formatting (Format - Conditional formatting....), having selected A1:D4:
Choose Custom formula is (only available in new Google Sheets),
Enter there:
=A1=max($A1:$D1)
Select your formatting, Save rules. |
H: Make photos available only to me on Google+
This may already be the default, I don't know.
I turned on a feature in the Android app Photos and now all my pictures have been uploaded to Google+. The exact website is https://plus.google.com/photos. I'm not very clear on how this works, I thought I was using google drive. How do I make the photos visible to only me? What are the privacy settings? I assume anything on Google+ is by default available to anyone.
AI: Your automatically backed up photos are private unless you choose to share them.
Back up photos & videos automatically |
H: How to get Gmail to forward all mail except from a certain address?
How can I get Gmail to automatically forward all mail except from a certain address?
AI: Go to the Gmail Settings by clicking on the gear in the upper right corner:
Go to "Forwarding and POP/IMAP".
Click on "Add a forwarding address" and enter the email address to which you want to forward emails.
In the email account to which you are forwarding, you will receive an email with a verification link. Click on that link.
Back in your Gmail account, go to "Filters".
Click on "Create a new filter" and enter -name@domain.com in the From field. Make sure to put a minus sign in front of the email address - that will make it forward all emails except ones from that address.
Click on "Create filter with this search".
Check the "Forward it to" box and select the email address to which you want to forward those emails. The email address that you validated should be in the dropdown box.
Click on "Create filter". |
H: Stop Google Search From Hiding Results
The web-based Google Search user interface works as follows:
On http://www.google.com/ , I enter a search term, e.g. latex superscript letters.
I hit Return.
Google Search displays the results list.
I notice most of the results are not what I am looking for, I should put superscript letters into quotation marks.
I change the text in the search box to latex "superscript letters".
Meanwhile, I notice that one of the results actually sounds interesting, and I still want to open that link before submitting the new search term.
Before I can do so, Google Search hides the previous results and replaces them with the annoying message Press Enter to search.
Therefore, I wonder:
Why does Google Search do anything with my search results before I have even decided whether I want to perform the search based on the new search term?
Why does Google replace the list of old results (which are still useful!) with something entirely unhelpful, namely a prompt to press Enter to search for the new term?
My concrete question is: How can I prevent that from happening?
AI: This is due to Google Instant Search. I have it turned off myself. To do so click the gear in the top right corner > Search settings > never show instant results. |
H: How do I find all of my posts on Google+?
My profile page on Google Plus lists all of my posts. This is my profile page. However, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to see this Wall-equivalent from the web interface of plus.google.com.
Is it possible to log into plus.google.com and to view all of your posts using only the mouse? If so, how?
AI: I see three different methods:
click your profile icon in the upper right, then click "Profile"
pull down the menu in the upper left (defaults to "Home") and click "Profile"
point your browser to https://plus.google.com/me |
H: Not have anything as title
Is it possible not to have anything as the title and subtitle?
I wish for that space to be deleted from the HTML code also.
I have done a screenshot image below that explains better, I hope...:
AI: I am with the Cognito Application Support team and to answer your question yes you can hide the title of the form if the form is embedded on a website (which in your case I believe it is).
This feature is discussed on our help site here:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/support/166/style--publish/customizing-form-styles
The "Hide logo & title when embedded in your site" option would seen by clicking on the Publish Tab for your form, on the left side of the screen choose the "Form Styles" Tab and you should see it just above the Text Color options.
Hopefully that will do just what you were asking. |
H: PDF of GitHub Readme file
Is there a way to download the Readme file of a GitHub project as a PDF, with the same formatting as the readme?
AI: Get the RAW link of that README.md file.
Then go to web2pdfconvert.
Paste link and click Convert to PDF.
Download your PDF. |
H: How do I loop a script through all pages but the first one?
I'm very new to all this. I'm trying to write a script that sorts sheets by descending date order each time a new row is entered. I need the script to run on all pages but the first (the summary page). I've gotten close (I can get the script to run on a specified page), but don't know how to
exclude a page or
have it start running the script on the second page.
Here's the code so far. It appears there is a TypeError in the line that reads, "var editedCell = shs.getActiveCell();"
function onEdit(event){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var shs = ss.getSheets(), num = shs.length;
var sheetName = []
for(var i = 1; i<num; i++);
var editedCell = shs.getActiveCell();
var columnToSortBy = 1;
var tableRange = "A2:G99"; // What to sort.
if(editedCell.getColumn() == columnToSortBy){
var range = sheet.getRange(tableRange);
range.sort( { column : columnToSortBy, ascending: false });
}
}
}
AI: First, the error: shs is an array, since you populate it with ss.getSheets(), so it doesn't have a method getActiveCell(). However, the elements of the array has that method.
You are also referencing a variable sheet, which you haven't defined anywhere.
Currently, your code is more suitable for going through a single sheet, you need to iterate through the shs array to have it operate on all sheets.
The following function will go through all cells in all sheets:
function onEdit(event){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var shs = ss.getSheets(), num = shs.length;
var sheetName = []
for (var sheetIdx = 0; sheetIdx < shs.length; sheetIdx++) {
var sheet = shs[sheetIdx];
for(var i = 1; i<num; i++) {
...
}
}
But you wanted to skip the first sheet, so let's start with element 1 in the array (since the array is 0-based, element 1 is the second sheet):
function onEdit(event){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var shs = ss.getSheets(), num = shs.length;
var sheetName = []
for (var sheetIdx = 1; sheetIdx < shs.length; sheetIdx++) {
var sheet = shs[sheetIdx];
for(var i = 1; i<num; i++) {
var editedCell = shs.getActiveCell();
var columnToSortBy = 1;
var tableRange = "A2:G99"; // What to sort.
if(editedCell.getColumn() == columnToSortBy){
var range = sheet.getRange(tableRange);
range.sort( { column : columnToSortBy, ascending: false });
}
}
}
}
As for your comment, your code
function onEdit(event) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
for (var n in ss.getSheets()) {
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[n];
var name = sheet.getName();
if (name == 'Dashboard')
return;
var editedCell = ss.getActiveCell();
var columnToSortBy = 1;
var tableRange = "A2:G99";
if (editedCell.getColumn() == columnToSortBy) {
var range = sheet.getRange(tableRange);
range.sort({column: columnToSortBy, ascending: false});
}
}
}
could work, if you replace return with continue. You don't want return, it ends the script. continue skips to the next element in the for loop. |
H: Run rules against messages in inbox in Outlook Web Access
I use Outlook Web Access at work and have set up rules for filtering emails by client email domains into different folders.
Is there a way for me to apply these new rules to messages already in my inbox?
AI: Although the Outlook desktop client allows you to run rules against a mailbox (including inbox), not all features work the same in Outlook for Web Access (OWA). Rules is one of them.
As you can see from the screenshot below, the wording says, "When the messages arrives, and". This means your rules only apply to new messages. Existing messages, like those in your inbox, do not qualify for processing. You have to move them manually to each respective folder. |
H: How to find Twitter accounts of a certain category that have a certain range of followers?
I want to find all the Twitter accounts that tweet about a certain category (let's say, cars) and that have a certain range of followers (let's say, from 1000 to 3000).
Is there any tool that can do that?
AI: You can use followerwonk to do that type of search.
Type cars into the search field, click on "more options", then type 1000 into the "Min followers" field and 3000 into the "Max followers" field. Then click the "Do it" button. It will return a sortable list of all Twitter profiles with "cars" or "car" in the name or description, and between 1000 and 3000 followers. |
H: How to sort cells with text and numbers correctly
This is my example list: example file
As you can see I am sorting all unique elements in row B.
But the "Sprint 9" gets sorted as the highest value, not the lowest. I really have no clue how I can fix this. I found this solution and tried to adjust the formula to my needs, but couldn't get it to work as I expect it:
In Google Docs, how to make a column with several numbers in each cell sortable?
AI: Key for the sort is the notation of the digits in the text (String #). These are sorted alphanumerically, meaning that 9 is higher than 25 when sorting descendingly. This can be resolved by squeezing in a zero to all digits ranging from 1 to 9. See formula I constructed.
Formula
=SORT( // range
UNIQUE( // range
ARRAYFORMULA( // array_formula
IF(
MID( // logical_expression
A2:A, // string
9, // starting_at
1 // extract_length
)="/",
REPLACE( // value_if_true
A2:A, // text
8, // position
0, // length
"0" // new_text
),
A2:A // value_if_false
)
)
),
1, // sort_column
TRUE // is_ascending
)
copy / paste
=SORT(UNIQUE(ARRAYFORMULA(IF(MID(A2:A, 9, 1)="/",REPLACE(A2:A, 8, 0, "0"), A2:A))), 1, TRUE)
Screenshot
Explained
The MID formula separates the 9th character from the string placed in A2:A. If it matches a /, then use the REPLACE formula to insert a 0 at position 8, by using zero as start position. If no match has been found, simply show the unaltered range A2:A. All is wrapped inside an ARRAYFORMULA to take on ranges instead off one cell. The altered range is then fed to the UNIQUE formula that will show only unique entries. This range is sorted by the SORT formula, using the first column of the range (and the only one) and sorted ascendingly. |
H: Google Calendar Event Scheduled for Mon - Thurs
How do I create a Google Calendar event that occurs all year every Mon-Thurs?
AI: In Google Calendar, click on the Create button.
Click on the "Repeat..." checkbox, and a popup box will appear.
In the "Repeat on" section, check the "M", "T", W", and "T" boxes.
In the "Ends" section, check the "On" radio box and select the date you want the event to end. Since you said you want it to occur all year, you can select 12/31/2015.
Click the "Done" button.
Fill in the other event details.
Click the "Save" button. |
H: google cell format: only 3 digits
Is there any way to do this:
I have cell and most of the numbers have 2 significant digits like 3.45. But once in a while I have a number like 143 big number, the rest are under 10. Currently for 143 the cell is displaying 143.00 which takes up too much space. I want it to show 143 just three digits. Is there a way to format it so it only shows 3 digits? no matter where the decimal point is?
AI: What you're looking for is conditional number formatting. You can do this in the Google doc by highlighting the column you wish to format and clicking:
Format → Number → More Formats → Custom number format...
Thereafter, specify this as your formula:
[<10]_(###0.00_);_(#0_)
What it means is, if the cell value is less than 10 then format the cell in #,##0.00 format otherwise format as #0.
You can read more info over here:
Display decimals only when the number is less than 1 [Excel number formatting tip]
As well as here:
Number Formats in Microsoft Excel |
H: How do I remove a photo from a Google+ album without deleting it?
If you accidentally add a photo to a Google+ album (e.g. via the "Move" button), it seems there's no way to remove it without deleting it.
AI: Navigate to the album in question
(Google+ -> Photos -> More -> Albums -> Select your album)
In the top-right corner, select "Organize"
You will now see a list of all your photos with actions, including "Delete" which will delete it from the album only. |
H: Select row in Google Sheets
I have a function in Google Sheets that is giving the following output:
a b c
1 2 3
I don't want the a b c I just want the 1 2 3. What function can I wrap around my other function so that it will only show me 1 2 3. I tried array_constrain I want something in the spirit of =ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(A1:C2,2:2,3), but that formula doesn't work.
I just want the 2nd row. The "other function" is a query with aggregates at the top like "avg" and "sum". I don't want to see that. I don't want to hide it because I have to paste down.
AI: This is what you need to do.
Formula
=QUERY(A1:C2, "SELECT * OFFSET 1", 0)
Explained
The SELECT statement contains an extra OFFSET argument. It tells the query to skip one row. The third parameter of the QUERY formula controls the headers. Setting it to zero will ignore the headers. |
H: Is it possible to find a recent ad in Facebook?
Yesterday there was an ad displayed in the feed. How would I go about finding this ad again if I don't have any information on the company like name etc? Perhaps even viewing only sponsored posts and filtering out all the rest?
AI: No, it's not possible.
Ads are targeted with real time bidding meaning that ads that are most likely to generate the most revenue to Facebook are displayed to you. That means that there are "infinitive" number of ads that could be displayed to you. It might be that Facebook keep a list of what ads have been displayed to you (in order to optimize what future ads might interest you) but it's not anything that they share with you. |
H: Using DKIM in Gmail without Google Apps
I have an email address on my own domain that's forwarded to a Gmail address, so I can manage my email on Gmail. Lately I'm having problems with my email being marked as spam, so as one of the measures I'm taking to prevent this from happening again, I want to add DKIM authentication.
I came across this page:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/174124?hl=en&ref_topic=2752442
which explains how to use DKIM when you're using Gmail on Google Apps. I use Gmail, but not on Google Apps.
Is it possible for me to send messages with DKIM and if so, how?
AI: No, it's not possible to use DKIM with Gmail. But if you want to improve your spam-status, you should use SPF records.
Add the following as a TXT record in your DNS settings:
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all |
H: Add timestamp to two different columns in Google Spreadsheets
Need help in adding another function using the below script.
I would like to have a timestamp "start" and "end" on two different columns, whenever the other two separate columns are edited. Based on the below script, I could only have one time stamp, from one column which is the column 2 and time stamp on column 10.
function onEdit()
{
var s = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
if( s.getName() == "Sheet1" ) { //checks that we're on the correct sheet
var x = s.getActiveCell();
if( x.getColumn() == 2 ) { //checks the column
var nextCell = x.offset(0, +8);
if( nextCell.getValue() === '' ) //is empty?
var time = new Date();
time = Utilities.formatDate(time, "GMT", "hh:mm");
nextCell.setValue(time);
};
};
}
AI: See if this helps ?
function onEdit(e) {
var s = e.source.getActiveSheet(),
watchCols = [2, 5],
offsetCol = [8, 10],
ind = watchCols.indexOf(e.range.columnStart)
if (s.getName() !== "Sheet1" || ind === -1) return;
e.range.offset(0, offsetCol[ind])
.setValue(!e.value ? null : Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT", "hh:mm"))
} |
H: How can you make Google Hangouts open URLs in your favorite browser instead of Chrome?
Suppose someone sends you a message with an URL:
When clicking that URL it'll spin up a Chrome window or tab with that URL. However, Chrome is not my favorite browser on this PC. I want to make Hangouts open links in my favorite browser by default.
I've tried gone breadth-first through the settings of a contact, as well as the Hangouts general settings, but haven't found an option for this. I've searched with Google but found no relevant results, and I've searched WebApps.SE finding zero relevant results as well.
Workarounds I've found are all suboptimal. Using Hangouts from your another browser (via Gmail) makes links open in that browser, but Hangouts in your browser is not a nice experience. Obviously there's copy-pasting the URL into your favorite browser, but that also requires several tedious manual actions.
My setup is Windows 8.1 with latest updates. I have installed Chrome (latest), Firefox (latest), and IE 11. The latter is set as my favorite browser. The Hangouts app is one I've installed quite some time ago at first seems like a separate app, because it's a separate set of windows, and because of how it's shown in the taskbar:
However I can't seem to find the application in the "Programs and Features" settings screen of Windows. It does show up as an extension for Google Chrome, which does kind of suggest that what I want is not possible.
Or is it?
AI: What you have installed is the Chrome extension of the Hangouts App. It is a standalone window/app but it runs within the Chrome browser, therefore it opens everything in Chrome, just like a detached tab.
You should try installing the plugin. |
H: Google Docs Chrome extension - what does it do / why does it exist?
In some Chrome instances, several extensions (apps?) called Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc. are installed (I've seen various subsets of these across different Chrome instances). What are these for / what do they do / why do they exist?
I verified that I can go offline and use Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc. just fine with these extensions disabled.
AI: I think mostly so that they can act like bookmarks, only better. I have a Google Docs icon on my desktop that will launch Chrome and go straight to my documents. Sure, I could drop a bookmark there just as easily, but by default it'll have the logo of my default web browser. Sure, I can change it, but it's a hassle. Also, since it's a "Chrome app", it can do a lot of things that apps can that URL links can't. It's easy to pin it to the start menu and/or the task bar.
Then there's also the Chrome App Launcher, which is a convenient menu of all of your Google apps.
It seems to me that they're really just for convenience. They're certainly not essential. If you can live without them, great.
(I think there was some speculation that having these apps might make working offline work or work better, but it doesn't seem like that's what's going on.) |
H: What does the grey color in some synonyms in Google define mean?
For example, here is the definition of zealous I find when searching define zealous:
Why are hard-core, overkeen and literary in grey?
AI: It turns out that the definitions you get from Google actually the definitions of Oxford dictionary. So it's actually because Oxford dictionary doesn't give Google the link to those word:
But I don't know why it doesn't link. Apparently those unlinked words exist in Oxford. And I don't know why Google can detect some words such as devoted or vigorous to link it, too. |
H: How can I set a label on all cards in a particular list at once in Trello?
I have a board with several lists. Three of the lists are "big tasks", "medium tasks", and "small tasks".
I want to make all of the cards on each of these lists a particular color. That way, when I move any card from one of the lists to "doing today", I can see how many big, medium, and small tasks I've assigned, without having to label each card individually.
Is there a way to do this? Or some kind of workaround that would accomplish the same thing (e.g., a simple keyboard shortcut to assign a particular color label quickly, or another system that works better)?
AI: I'm not aware that there is currently any way to apply a label to all cards in a list at the same time. There is a proposal on the Trello development board to implement multi-select to make bulk actions possible.
A quick way to individually assign labels is to hover your mouse over individual cards and press 0-9 to assign the associated labels. To see which labels are associate with which numbers, you can press l (lowercase L) while hovering over the card to bring up the full list of labels. The number for each label will be displayed in parentheses for each label. |
H: How to get a running balance?
I'm messing around with Google Sheets today, and I'm trying to put together a balance sheet similar to the one my bank uses. Its got both a credit and debit field in each row and a running balance to the far right. I'm kinda new to this, so I'm learning as I go.
I've got it set up like so - cell E2 has the following formula:
=sum(c2:d2)
While cells E3 and beyond have:
=(C4*-1)+D4+E3
It works for the most part, but if you'll notice cells E6 onwards each have the same value as a result of the formula being applied to every cell in that column. Is there any way to hide the balance value or change it to 0 if the debit/credit field is empty, just for layout purposes?
edit:
It's supposed to be a running balance of an account. So the end result is like this
DEBIT CREDIT BALANCE DATE
5 5 05 Feb 2015
1 4 06 Feb 2015
10 14 07 Feb 2015
8 6 09 Feb 2015
But just to re-iterate, my issue isn't so much with the formula but rather with the way it displays the total.
I'm looking for something like this (I zeroed out E5-E11 by hand):
The balance should display "P0.00", or be blank, when the line is empty.
AI: I'd use this formula in E3 and copy down:
=IF(AND(E2<>"",OR(C3<>"",D3<>"")),E2-C3+D3,"")
EXPLANATION:
The IF statement contains 3 comma separated parameters:
logical_expression
value_if_true
value_if_false
In this case the logical expression is AND(E2<>"",OR(C3<>"",D3<>"")).
AND takes multiple logical expressions as comma separated parameters, and returns TRUE only if all expressions are true. In this case these two:
E2<>""
OR(C3<>"",D3<>"")
Number one checks if there is anything in the cell above (if it's not equal to nothing).
Number two is an OR function, works as AND but returns TRUE if only one or more of the expressions are true. In this case:
C3 (the Debit value on this row) is not empty
D3 (the Credit value on this row) is not empty
So to summarize
If the cell above has a value, and Debit or Credit has a value. The value_if_true is used. In the example: E2-C3+D3 (the cell above minus Debit plus Credit).
If the expression evaluates to false, the value_if_false is used, in this case "" (an empty string). |
H: Hiding my birthday
How can I hide my birthday and prevent Facebook from notifying my friends when I have a birthday?
I tried "Settings -> Privacy", but it only gives very general settings - there is nothing specific about birthday.
AI: You can change who can see your birthday by adjusting the audience.
Go to your profile and click About. On the left pane, click Contact and Basic Info.
There are 2 audience selectors next to your birthday (under Basic Information):
one for the day and month
one for the year
Friends won't get a notification about your upcoming birthday if you don't share the day and month with them. Click Edit and just choose "Only Me" next to the day and month, and your friends shouldn't get notifications about your birthday after you save changes.
For convenience, the following is a screeny of the related section: |
H: Is it possible to send email to many people but different recipients see their own address only in the "To:" field?
I am looking for a way in Gmail to send group email to multiple recipients, but each recipient only sees his/her own email address in the "To:" field. I know I can put all recipients' email addresses in the "Bcc:" field, but the recipients will then see their own email address only in the "Bcc:" field, while the "To:" field becomes empty.
I have seen this can be done, but I am not sure if Gmail has been used, or if this has been assisted by third-party software / program.
I also found this related question, but it is for Outlook only, and the URL given in the answer seems to be outdated: https://superuser.com/questions/224502/how-to-send-group-mail-to-multiple-recipients-but-have-each-recipient-see-their
AI: One option would be to use mail-merge from Outlook which is suggested in the linked answer (link).
Another would be to set up a macro to schedule a mail. Have a look at this answer
A Gmail account can be suspended permanently for spam mails, so be careful (link).
Suggested by @LaBird-Mail-merge tutorial for gmail |
H: Setting up Google Voice/Hangouts to use my phone number
I have an iPhone 4S with Verizon as my carrier. I'd like to be able to use Google Voice and Google Hangouts to call people and have it show up on their caller ID as my phone number. Is there a way to set this up without having to pay money and switch my carrier over?
AI: Yes. On a computer go to Google Voice, go to the "My Number" page, and select "change/port", and finally, select use my mobile number. Google Voice will guide you thru the rest of the process. |
H: Is there any way to remove current profile picture from Skype?
I want to remove the picture not to replace it with another.
This was asked two years ago, I had forgotten about this one. The new version of Skype has an option to remove/hide profile picture:
Still haven't found relevant information on removing it using the web version.
AI: Easiest solution would be to replace the image with a generic picture, like the Skype logo or a blank user avatar picture.
As far as I know, you cannot remove a profile image once one is added as it is stored on Skype's servers. The other option would be to create a new account. |
H: Post to Facebook groups without member-freinds being notified of it?
Can I post to Facebook groups without my freinds (members of that group) being notified of it?
Everytime I post to a group, they get notifications that I just posted something there.
AI: Facebook doesn't allow you to do that. You'll either have to post from another account, or post to groups they are not members of. |
H: How to host my existing website with Google Drive
Google has given me 15GB of storage. Can I host my own website having my own domain?
AI: So, can I host my own website which having my own domain?
No.
Also can I install WordPress to my website if that can be hosted with Google Drive?
No, that's not possible. |
H: How to search for "python" the programming language on Google Trends?
If I type ruby on Google Trends then it suggests "the programming language", which is what I want.
But if I type python then it doesn't suggest the programming language.
Question
How can I get it to search for python the programming language?
AI: Using too many search terms is counterproductive, so limit your search terms to the minimum number of words necessary to convey the desired meaning of the search term. You should also try to be as specific as possible. Here are the results of the search term python programming on Google Trends. |
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