Friday, May 10, 2024

One Link Sign-up web app set up procedures

For the first time to set up a web app on your sign-up Google sheet, Google has quite a number of steps to protect you and to secure your sheet. Once complete, you can re-use the sheet for future sign-up without all the steps.

Please be patient to follow the steps below. If you have any queries, please email spcsoft.galaxy@gmail.com for support. 

1. On Google drive, click the + New button.

2. If One Link Sign-up is not yet installed, go to Google Workspace Marketplace to install it.

3. Click the Google Sheets item to open an Untitled spreadsheet.

 

4.Click Extensions, move the mouse to One Link Sign-up and click the Set up web app function.

5. Select a template

6. Wait for the sidebar to display

7. Follow the steps in sidebar to input your web app sign-up page title and press the Enter key.

8. If Step2 is displayed, do the following:

    (a) click the Enable button.

    (b) Click the Google Apps Script API bar.

    (c) Review the Google message. Hold cursor on the blue dot moving it to the right.

    (d) Click the Create button.



9. You are almost done! For the scripts which you have just created to sign-up sheet, Google requires you to authorize it for web access.

    (a) Click the Authorize button to open up your sign-up sheet in new window.

    (b) On the new window, wait for the 1L Sign-up custom menu to display.

    (c) Click the 1L Sign-up > Authorize.

    

    (d) Review the Google message and click OK.

    

    (e) Choose your account
        
    
    (f) Google verified the scripts in add-on but not the scripts in your sign-up sheet. Review the Google message which is on your sign-up sheet and click Advanced.
    
    (g) Review the Google message and click Go to xxx (unsafe) where xxx is your sheet. 
        

    (h)  The scripts inside your sign-up sheet will update the sign-up sheet and use external service to allow web access. Review the Google message and click Continue.


    (i) Review the Google message and click Allow.


10. Back in the new window, click the Deploy function to deploy your authorized web app scripts to internet.       
      

11.  Click the Open button to open the host's sign-up web page and bookmark this host's link for re-entry. 

    

Congratulations! You have finished all the setup steps to create a web app on a sign-up sheet that you can invite people to sign up online. 


The steps below are for testing the web app online sign-up.

1. On the host's sign-up web page, sign in from your account.
    

2. From the host view, click the Open one link sign-up page button.
3. The sign-up page from one link is displayed. Bookmark this link for testing sign-up. 

4. After testing, modify the demo sign-up sheet data and send the saved link to invite sign-up. Enjoy your sign-up on Google sheet.