How to get Google docs last edit date

Question

I am working on an app in which I need to show the date when google doc was last edited.

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I am able to get last modified date through Drive api

Answer 1

The best way to go might be to go into the Tools menu and use the "Script editor". A little bit of code makes this not so difficult. Here's one example I found that seems to work.

function onEdit(event) { var ss = event.source.getActiveSheet(); if (ss.getName() === 'Locations') { var dd = new Date(); ss.getRange(event.range.rowStart, 8).setValue(dd.toISOString()); } }

In addition to the code you will need to accept some security dialog question, and you will need to setup a "trigger" for the project. These "triggers" are how you associate the code with an event in the Google Spreadsheet.

Hope this helps.