This talk highlights how you can easily interact with your CiviCRM via the API interface with a new Google Apps Script library. Google Apps Script is a free programming environment in Google Drive that allows you to easily integrate with Google Docs, Forms, Sheets, other Google products and third party services. Using Apps Script gives you the flexibility and power of tools like Google Sheets to push, extract or analyse data and integrate this with your CiviCRM installation via the CiviCRM API. Example uses could include using shared Google Sheets to record information which is pushed into your CiviCRM, initiating cases from Gmail triggers and more.

1. Using CiviCRM in Google Drive with the new
CiviService Google Script Library
Martin Hawksey
@mhawksey
#CiviCon London 2016

2. Previously ….

3. Don’t hate,
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4. Google Script
CC-BY Google – Google Apps Script, 13-03-2012

5. Where..
StandaloneSheets DocsForms Sites

6. What..

7. Lets interface … {API}
Image credit: CC-BY-NC nikki

8. CiviService – A CiviCRM API Library for
Google Script

9. CiviService – Example
A basic event creation workflow to
allow members to add CiviEvents to our
site.

10. Exploring the CiviCRM API
http://dmaster.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/api#explorer

11. Step 1 – Create a Google Form

12. Step 2 – Add some columns

13. Step 3 – Add some custom code
Custom UI

14. Step 3 – Add some custom code
Processing each row of the Google Sheet

15. Step 3 – Add some custom code
Create CiviEvent from the row data using the CiviCRM API

16. CiviService – How to use?
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Easy…
… simply note this id
Visit https://mashe.hawksey.info/?p=17333

17. Association for Learning Technology
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