Reusable Checklist Google Sheets

Learn how to create a reusable checklist in Google Sheets that automatically resets each day using Apps Script. This tutorial covers the necessary functions and triggers to streamline your task management.

Let's make a reusable checklist . That means I'm going to check these things off, but then tomorrow I want them unchecked no matter what. Maybe I'm the one using this on Mondays and then somebody else uses it on Tuesdays or I just don't want to uncheck everything. I want my sheet to do it for me. Go up to extensions appscript. We're going to change this function to be named uncheck and we want to uncheck column A or just A2 to A7. So we'll do spreadsheet app.getactive spreadsheet . That gets the entire spreadsheet file. We'll go to sheet one. Maybe this is also called tasks. Whatever it is, we can name it get sheet by name tasks. And then we're going to do get range . Inside of this range , we could do a colon a. We could

also do a 2 colon what was that? A7 to get the very specific range . And then we're going to write uncheck. So all of this, just this one line of code, we're going to save it or click save project to drive. It's going to uncheck. And we can double check this. We can check our work. We can check them all. A2 to A7. We can come here and we can click run. It's going to ask us to authorize the very first time we do it, but not any. So here's our authorization . We just authorize it once. And we can go back and check. And it is unchecked. So we know that it works. Let's actually trigger this every day. So it's called file a function uncheck. Over on the left side we have triggers. We'll click there. And once on triggers on the bottom right we'll click add trigger .

Once we choose which function to run. If you have multiple functions here you'll have to you'll have to find it. But usually if it's the only function it'll be right here. Our select event source will be change to time driven. And we want to change that to daytimer. Then we select the time of day. We'll do it in the morning before we come to work. 2 am to 3:00 am. And we'll click save. You may have to authorize again. Here we see our trigger . And if we want to delete it over on the left side, sorry, right side, three buttons. Click delete trigger if you want to delete that and don't have it happen ever again. But right now, it'll run every day between the those hours we selected once a day and it'll be a reusable checklist . You're watching Better Sheets here on YouTube. Make sure you check out this video or this video and subscribe right

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