Learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server: step 5 should emphasize that a user must change "Who has access to the app"

Created on 14 Feb 2017  路  6Comments  路  Source: dwyl/learn-to-send-email-via-google-script-html-no-server

In Step 5, "Publish the Updated Script as a Web App", the image shows the screen for publishing/deploying the script/app, but the text does not emphasize (nor does the image highlight) that a new user must _also_ change the access permissions to "Anyone, even anonymous".

Without this clarification or highlight in the image, there have been numerous issues deploying the script. It might be worthwhile to have a note in that step what error you will get if you do not change the access permissions (for searchability).

This has been noted in various issues #45, #48, #81 - if @OdinTR or @Min11Benja or @Guillaume-slize have any comments / other suggestions for improvements, please let us know! This is definitely on our radar, so thanks for pointing this out!

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also #85 - I can tackle sometime but great opportunity for a pull request, anyone. :)

Can you write me step by step how can I fix the problem?

As stated in the issue, Step 5) involves changing a few things when you publish the Google Script so that it can write data when someone hits submit. One thing that is in the image, but not the text, is that you must change the permissions to "Anyone, even anonymous".

I want you to look at the codepen.io code on #88 this is the bug...

+1 as well; had the same problem on my side. I should note that someone I was walking through do this also had a slight aversion to setting it as such, and instead set it to the "whoever is accessing the form's" permission, which also had (slightly different) problems, but getting the access set as required definitely needs a bit more bolding/slap-in-the-face-ing

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