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I've been looking for a sophisticated way to automatically generate documents for a while (formulas, data tables) with the addition of one crucial feature that
by ryeguy_24 8y ago
I've been looking for a sophisticated way to automatically generate documents for a while (formulas, data tables) with the addition of one crucial feature that I haven't been able to find just yet: the ability to generate a document in addition to allow human editing. For example, this is my desired workflow, Step 1, create a document automatically, Step 2, allow humans to begin editing with tracked changes, and Step 3, potentially update the automatically generated content while keeping the edits. That workflow is what I'm looking for? Any recommendations?
- kfk 8y agoThat is actually an enterprise feature that gets very little recognition. There are many challenges with keeping it all in sync, especially if you have multiple contributors. But may I ask more specifics on your case? For me and my team is about getting forecats and kpis from humans into a central database from which we can then do further analysis and plotting, reports, etc
- iak8god 8y agoYour Step 3 is the hard part. For Steps 1 & 2 have you looked into generating markup and using Pandoc to convert to, e.g. Word files? https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/
- bryanrasmussen 8y agoYou can generate documents and other access other google api functionality with apps script https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/docs https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/docs so you can not just create formulas, documents etc. but also emails, modify calendar events based on behaviors.