1

I have built a web app using Google Apps Script, and a lot of information from here, that writes data to a spreadsheet for me. All of the functionality is in the doPost() function and works fine in testing within the GAS environment.

I built a straight HTML, CSS, and Javascript web application to act as the UI front-end and it POSTs fine to the GAS web app ... until I add code to the latter, that is. Once I do that, I keep getting the old version of the GAS app.

I have updated the version, checked to ensure the key has not changed on me, waited 24 hours ... I am missing something fundamental. The only thing that works is opening a new script project, copying the updated code into it, publishing it, and changing the URL reference in my other code. Then I will see the changes.

Needless to say, this is getting tedious. Any pointers to where the problem lies?

Thanks in advance.

Improve this question
5
  • Have you created a new version after the changes and published the Web App with the new version? Versions Commented Aug 8, 2013 at 16:45
  • I think I am. I go to Publish > Deploy as Web App and click the Update button, then click OK in the next dialog. They URL does not change. One note: I cannot change the version number. It only allows me to select the current version number. Commented Aug 8, 2013 at 18:04
  • Ah! There is the Manage Versions menu to add new versions. Thanks for getting me to look around on how to change versions. Commented Aug 8, 2013 at 18:09
  • This question is a dup. User not saving new version Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 13:57
  • What is the difference between clicking update with the same version and setting version to new and clicking. Isn't new code being run either way. My version number is now huge!?!? Commented May 8, 2021 at 16:39

2 Answers 2

Reset to default
3

The answer is that I needed to choose File > Manage Version and save a new version. That allowed me to re-publish using the new version number, which contains the updates. Simply re-publishing under the old version number does not do what you might expect.

That now explains the problem I had with another script...

Improve this answer
Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

1

There are two versions of the web app, practically speaking. There is the published version as it existed when you published it and the development version, which reflects your code as it currently exists in the editor. You can access your updated code in its current state without re-publishing by clicking on the "Test web app for your latest code" link in Publish > Deploy as web app. This will provide you a link with /dev in it instead of /exec.

Published: https://script.google.com/macros/s/ABCD1234ABCD1234/exec Development: https://script.google.com/a/macros/<domain>/s/ABCD1234ABCD1234/dev
Improve this answer

2 Comments

You should also mention that the .dev link is only working for the script owner and editors who have write access to the script (this feature was added on March 2013) this is an important information.
I don't believe the dev version currently works. I've been trying it and the only way to make a POST request to the updated script is to publish it as a new version.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.