This section lists resources you can refer to as you build add-ons.
Manifest reference
Apps Script manifest files define a script project's configuration details. For add-ons, the manifest defines much of the add-on's behavior.
The Manifest structure documentation describes how a manifest is organized and its content. Configuration settings affecting Google Workspace add-on behavior are documented in the AddOns resource documentation.
Apps Script services
Add-ons built using Apps Script can use the many built-in Google Workspace services it provides to access Google Workspace application data. You can also use Apps Script advanced services to directly access the corresponding REST API from your add-on script project. Apps Script also provides built-in script services to assist with common tasks that aren't connected to a particular Google Workspace application (such as logging or data compression).
The following table provides a short summary of services that are often useful when building add-ons.
| Google Workspace services | |
|---|---|
| Calendar service | Access and modify user Google Calendar data. |
| Document service | Create, access, and edit Google Docs. |
| Drive service | Create, access, and modify files in Google Drive. |
| Forms service | Create, access, and edit Google Forms. |
| Gmail service | Access user Gmail data and messages. |
| Slides service | Create, access, and edit Google Slides presentations. |
| Sheets service | Create, access, and edit Google Sheets. |
| Advanced Google services | |
| Advanced Calendar service | Use the Calendar v3 REST API from your add-on script project. |
| Advanced Drive service | Use the Drive v2 REST API from your add-on script project. |
| Advanced Gmail service | Use the Gmail v1 REST API from your add-on script project. |
| Advanced Sheets service | Use the Sheets v4 REST API from your add-on script project. |
| Advanced Slides service | Use the Slides v1 REST API from your add-on script project. |
| Script services | |
| console | Log information to Stackdriver. This is usually preferable to using the simpler Logger service. |
| Card service | Create card-based interfaces for Gmail add-ons. You can also use this service is to build interfaces for Google Chat bots. To build dialogs and sidebars for editor add-ons, you must use the HTML service instead. |
| Conference Data service | Only used for add-ons that interact with Google Calendar conferencing. This service lets your Google Workspace add-on create and sync third-party conferencing information in Google Calendar. |
| HTML service | Create and serve HTML. This service is used to build user interfaces for editor add-on sidebars and dialogs. For more information, see the Apps Script guide to HTML service. To build interfaces for Gmail add-ons, you must use the Card service instead. |
| Properties service | Store and retrieve add-on state and other information using property strings. |
| Script service | Access script triggers and other script-level information. |
| URL Fetch service | Retrieve and post information from or to third-party URLs. Often it is helpful to use the OAuth2 library for Apps Script in conjunction with this service to handle the details of OAuth2 authorization for third-party APIs. |
| Utilities service | Helper methods to handle data compression, encoding, decoding, JSON manipulation, and other miscellaneous tasks. |