Class DocumentTriggerBuilder

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The DocumentTriggerBuilder helps in creating and managing triggers for Google Docs.

• It provides methods like create() to finalize the trigger and onOpen() to set a trigger for when the document is opened.

• The onOpen() method allows you to specify a function to execute when a document is opened, enhancing document automation capabilities.

DocumentTriggerBuilder

A builder for document triggers.

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
create()	Trigger	Creates and returns the new trigger.
onOpen()	DocumentTriggerBuilder	Specifies a trigger that will fire when the document is opened.

Detailed documentation

create()

Creates and returns the new trigger.

Return

Trigger — The new trigger.

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onOpen()

Specifies a trigger that will fire when the document is opened.

const document = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
ScriptApp.newTrigger('myFunction').forDocument(document).onOpen().create();

Return

DocumentTriggerBuilder — This DocumentTriggerBuilder, for chaining.