{"id":8551,"date":"2014-03-12T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2014-03-12T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:16:20","slug":"third-party-add-ons-for-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/third-party-add-ons-for-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-Party Add-ons for Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/google-drive-launching-third-party-add-ons-program-for-docs-sheets-7000027215\/\">Rachel King<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7381460\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/google-drive-launching-third-party-add-ons-program-for-docs-sheets-7000027215\/\"><p>The tools and APIs for add-ons are available to everyone. The Google Apps team only steps in ahead of final publication to the store.<\/p>\n<p>From there, developers can submit working prototypes of add-ons to Google Apps for admission. At launch, Google has 25 add-on partners. Add-ons will do everything from print labels to customize emails. For instance, PandaDoc is an add-on that allows you to create legally binding documents with digital signatures, notations and other features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googledrive.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/add-ons.html\">Saurabh Gupta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/googledrive.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/add-ons.html\"><p>You use Google Docs and Sheets to get all sorts of stuff done&mdash;whether you&rsquo;re staying up late to finish that final paper or just getting started on a new project at the office. But to help take some of that work off your shoulders, today we&rsquo;re launching add-ons&mdash;new tools created by developer partners that give you even more features in your documents and spreadsheets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/building-sheets-and-docs-add-ons.html\">Dan Lazin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/building-sheets-and-docs-add-ons.html\"><p>Docs and Sheets add-ons are powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/apps-script\/\">Google Apps Script<\/a>, a server-side JavaScript platform that requires zero setup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems odd that we&rsquo;re now at the point where Web apps are more customizable than desktop ones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel King (via Hacker News): The tools and APIs for add-ons are available to everyone. The Google Apps team only steps in ahead of final publication to the store. From there, developers can submit working prototypes of add-ons to Google Apps for admission. At launch, Google has 25 add-on partners. Add-ons will do everything from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,610,805,346,684,96],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-docs","tag-google-sheets","tag-javascript","tag-spreadsheet","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}