My question is an extension of this fantastic solution but am hoping to take it one step further. Whenever a user other than me marks the checkbox as TRUE, the sender of the email is always me, since:
Installable triggers always run under the account of the person who created them
Is it possible to capture the user currently logged in and make them the sender, and if so, what am I missing in my code to make that happen?
What I've tried
I believed I had found my answer, but no such luck. This still posts the timestamp to the sheet successfully, but the email sender still shows as me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit(s):
I noticed in the above solution if (activeUser === effectiveUser) { only "worked" if typed as if (activeUser !== effectiveUser) {. In my attempts at making it work, I made that edit and forgot to revert it.
function sendEmail(e){
var sheet = e.source.getActiveSheet();
var cell = e.range;
var activeUser = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
var effectiveUser = Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail();
if (activeUser !== effectiveUser) {
Logger.log(cell.getColumn());
Logger.log(cell.isChecked());
//Check if the checkbox in column G(index 7) was checked
if(sheet.getName() == "actionItems" && cell.getColumn() == 7 && cell.isChecked()){
//get current row values from column A to column F
var values = sheet.getRange(cell.getRow(),1,1,6).getDisplayValues().flat();
Logger.log(values);
var transmittalNumber = values[0];
var email = values[5];
var query = values[1];
//create and update the email's hmtl body
var templ = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile('html_template');
templ.query = query;
var message = templ.evaluate().getContent();
//Send email
MailApp.sendEmail({
to: email,
subject: "Oatsies Action Item: "+transmittalNumber,
htmlBody: message
});
//Add timestamp at column H(index 8)
var timeZone = "GMT-7";
var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(),timeZone, "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm");
sheet.getRange(cell.getRow(),8).setValue(date);
}
}
}
