Question

I have built a couple of simple functions which return cell values in Google Scripts. I have also created at simple template HTML file, and have tried following Google’s HTML Service documentation!, but my HTML template output still doesn’t work for me.

Firstly, my JS in my .GS file:

function doGet() {
  return HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('TemplateName').evaluate();
}

function getStarData2() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("key in here").getRange("A2").getValue();
  //Logger.log(ss);
  return ss;
}

And my HTML:

...<span><? getStarData2(); ?></span>...

I have tried a variety of different things to get it working, however, I find it either runs but nothing displays or it runs or it returns a variety of different errors depending on what I try.

I would imagine that this is a very simple fix for all you experts out there so your help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Try using <?= getStarData2(); ?> instead of <? getStarData2() ?>.

That equals sign basically says, “Run this function and then print out whatever gets returned here.” Otherwise, you’re just running that function and doing nothing with the result.