Create google doc, insert text with specific paragraph styles

[João Silva]

Hello.

I'm trying to create a script that will help me generate a new Google Doc and populate it with some text. That text should be formatted with different paragraph styles. I would use this to create a google doc where I keep notes about my students and their projects. My usual format is something like:

Class name (formatted with Heading 1)

Student 1 name (Heading 2)

Project 1 (Heading 3)

Project 2 ( Heading 3)

Final Project (Heading 3)

...

Student N name (Heading 2)

And so on.

Looking at the script reference, I can't find how to do this. The best I found was how to style text by setting each property - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/advanced/docs#insert_and_style_text - which is not really what I want. 

Is there a way to achieve this? Thank you.

[Edward Ulle]

Try this.

function onOpen() {

  var menu = DocumentApp.getUi().createMenu("My Menu");

  menu.addItem("Test","test");

  menu.addToUi();

}

function test() {

  try {

    var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();

    var body = doc.getBody();

    var para = body.appendParagraph("Class name");

    para.setHeading(DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING1);

    para = body.appendParagraph("Type to insert class");

    para = body.appendParagraph("Student 1");

    para.setHeading(DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING2);

    para = body.appendParagraph("Type to insert student");

    para = body.appendParagraph("Project 1");

    para.setHeading(DocumentApp.ParagraphHeading.HEADING3);

    para = body.appendParagraph("Type to insert student");

  }

  catch(err) {

    DocumentApp.getUi().alert(err);

  }

}