Question

When I create an Apps Script library that accesses a spreadsheet and use it in a script then I get a permission error (for setValue in the following example).
If I call the same spreadsheet function in the script once (and then remove it) and then call the library function I will never get the permission error again (It’s reproducible).

Have you ever experienced such behavior and if yes how did you solve this problem?

Thanks

The library

function addRecord(ss, sheetName) {
  var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(sheetName);
  sheet.getRange("A1:A1").setValue("Hello World!");
}

The script

function myFunction() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  MyLib.addRecord(ss, "Sheet1");
}

The error message
“You don’t have the required permission to call setValue”

Answer 1

To close this – the issue reported by Stefan has been confirmed as an issue. We are looking into this. Permissions to a passed in spreadsheet are not being correctly absorbed by a library.

Stefan – please feel free to create a report on issue tracker if you prefer.