The spreadsheets api lets you do most of the things you asked here.Have a look at the following link to start, and navigate there for more details: http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/faq.html#WhatIsTheGoogleSpreadsheetsDataAPI
VizGuy On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi TheViz, > > Thanks! Sorry if I may have come off as rude, but I felt like what I > wanted to do could have been done through the visualization api. And > okay, I can definitely work on the Spreadsheet GData API. Can you give > me the link to that? If that is the same as spreadsheets.google.com, I > haven't figured out how to update spreadsheets other than manually > going into the spreadsheet and typing it into the cells. This is > probably a question for the spreadsheet api people. And last question: > is it possible to use functions from the spreadsheet api, like > =GoogleFinance(symbol,attribute) inside the visualization api or any > script? My assumption is no, but I figured if I don't ask I won't know > and what I have tried I haven't been successful with. > > I very much appreciate your help, thanks a lot! > > Siam Luu > > On Nov 18, 5:31 am, TheViz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Siam, > > > > As of today you need to use the Spreadsheet GData API to update > > spreadsheets. To view data in a spreadsheet you can choose to use the > > Visualization (this) API or the GData API. For most cases, it is easier > to > > use the Visualization API to view data. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I understand. So, is there a way for writing a query to update data > > > while being fetched? I assumed that this was the place to go because I > > > would be using the visualization api to display the fetched data and > > > assumed that it was something that needed to be coded in through this > > > api as opposed to the spreadsheet api. I have posted a similar > > > question in the spreadsheet api forum but have not received any > > > response. Thanks for your help, I am still working on understanding > > > this. > > > > > Cheers! > > > Siam Luu > > > > > On Nov 15, 4:44 pm, VizGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The spreadsheets API is doumented athttp:// > > > code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/overview.htmland is not the one > > > > this group is about. > > > > This is the Google Visualization API, that has a lot to do with > Google > > > > Spreadsheet, but is not for update, but only for fetching data. > > > > > > VizGuy > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:33 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > HI Everybody, > > > > > > > So, I have been working on the Google Spreadsheets API for a bit > but > > > > > am still a big time newbie. I have a textbox on a page that needs > to > > > > > take whatever a user inputs into it and put it into a specific cell > of > > > > > my Google Spreadsheet. I'm not familiar with Queries and even after > > > > > having read the queries document, I still do not know how to do > this. > > > > > > > I would really appreciate any and all help that I can get with > regard > > > > > to writing queries. All I need is to take a user's input and put it > > > > > into a cell on my spreadsheet. Thanks for the help and assistance! > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Siam Luu- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
