Question

I have this working very nicely :

var theForm = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('aForm').evaluate();
var theSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();

theSpreadsheet.show(theForm);

When the user has submitted data I want to close “theForm”. Is there something like an unShow() or hide() method on a spreadsheet? a harikiri() method on an HtmlOutput?

Ideally, I’d like to have a reShow() command that saves the submitted data, refreshes the spreadsheet and calls show() again.

I have found no way to do these things, so I just disable the submit button. Ugh!

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

UPDATE (2012/08/28) : I should have mentioned that I am calling back into the same code as originally opened “theForm”, from the HTML form, using this call …

google.script.run.recordTheForm(jsonTheForm);

Do I assume correctly that google.script.run.*() calls have no knowledge of any variable values set earlier?

Answer 1

HtmlService doesn’t have an equivalent of app.close()… this is an oversight, not something by design, and we will fix it.

Edit: From within client-side JavaScript code (not from the server like app.close(), but within the HtmlService code itself) you can now call google.script.host.closeDialog()