Is there a way to monitor click events on bookmarks in google documents with google apps script? I want to get bookmark id when someone selects a bookmark and than run some more code which needs that bookmark id to get processed.
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You cannot capture click events in Google Apps Script. You would need to use a web app and the HTML Service with client side JavaScript to do that. – Brian Dec 16 '16 at 19:14
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Can you provide an example maybe? – Silko Dec 17 '16 at 08:11
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Web Apps through GAS are [well documented](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/web). Essentially, you use GAS as server-side scripting and then JavaScript/HTML as the client side interaction. – Brian Dec 18 '16 at 00:57
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Ok I'm not sure I'm doing it the right way but, I created a sidebar in a *.html file and include javscript with a click event listener. The script works, but it works only inside the sidebar. I want it to work inside the Google Document. – Silko Dec 18 '16 at 18:07
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With Brian Bennett's help I managed to solve this issue with Web Apps. There is a little bit more code to write but it works.
- Write a doGet function:
doGet function is called when a user visits your Web App. With doGet function I opened a document with ID given through get parameters and displayed it as html. To get a html of the document I used this function.
- Find and display bookmarks:
You can find bookmarks in the html of the document as html tag with id of the bookmark. I changed the css of all this tags so I could see them (change background, height, width or something like that).
- listen to click events on bookmarks with jquery or just javascript:
Listen to click events on those tags (bookmakrs) with jquery or javascript. If you use jquery, you need to import a jquery library. When click event happens get the id of the bookmark from the id attribute of the tag.
- Use that bookmark id as you wish...
