display name link google classroom

Lis Kl

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Apr 13, 2021, 12:33:57 PM4/13/21

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I made a web app and added it as material in a Google assignment. I also tried adding it in the Google classroom stream. The link I am using (from Publish / Deploy as Web App) ends with /exec not /dev (if that makes a difference). It works for the users but the link displays with the title ‘Sign in – Google Accounts’. I tried wrapping it in the <a html tag in the instructions but the html is not parsed. Could I have done anything when creating the web app to assign a display title? If I made more web apps would they all have this boring / off-putting display title?

Alan Wells

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Apr 13, 2021, 12:52:55 PM4/13/21

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Get a screen snip and post it so we can see what the "Sign in – Google Accounts" looks like.

How is the Web App published?

To run as you or user?

Available to anyone, even anonymous?

Anyone with a Google account?

Lis Kl

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Apr 13, 2021, 1:51:41 PM4/13/21

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There are several, set up for anyone https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NFSdG89_tqRQwEAtEDA2mvFi7DLm1BzznoCDKuz-Tq0/edit?usp=sharing

Alan Wells

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Apr 13, 2021, 2:25:17 PM4/13/21

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Even if the setting is for anyone, that doesn't mean that they don't need to sign in.

The only way you can avoid the requirement of someone signing into a Web App with a Google Account,

is to publish it to run as you (ME) and anyone, even anonymous

Otherwise, they must be signed in with a Google account.

If they aren't signed in, then they must sign in.

There is an issue when someone is logged into multiple Google accounts in the browser.

Apps Script can encounter an error in that situation, because it can't determine which account to use.

Who knows if that will ever get fixed.

Google has totally failed on that issue.

But, that doesn't seem to be your problem.

Lis Kl

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Apr 16, 2021, 9:09:53 PM4/16/21

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Found a simple solution here: https://learningwithmrsparker.blogspot.com/2016/02/creating-hyperlink-to-use-in-google.html Embed the link in some other Google thing - slide or document! DUH!

Kim Nilsson

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Apr 17, 2021, 10:53:43 AM4/17/21

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Also Google Sites is a very nice place to host a web app.
They usually embed nicely, and you don't have to share the ugly long web app script URL.

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