A common Google Apps Script use case, mirroring Excel reporting automation is automatically generating reports based on data in multiple Google Sheets. For instance, a script could pull data from different sheets, e.g. sales data, customer data, inventory data and format them into a summary report in dedicated sheets, complete with the charts and graphs, all triggered automatically at set intervals. Here very simplified examples, first is data sources. Data sources in which imagine you have three sheets, sales, customers and inventory sales contains daily sales figures, customers holds, customer information and inventory tracks products stock labels and the second point is script logic. Google Apps Script would read data from each of the source sheets and perform calculations e.g. total sales, average order size, stock turnover, format the data in a new sheet called report, create charts and graphs to visualize key metrics, fourth point is trigger, a time based trigger could be set up to automatically run the script daily or weekly, ensuring the report is always up to date. Similarities to Excel reporting, data aggregations like Excel pivot tables, Apps Script can summarize and analyze data from multiple sources, second formula and function usage, you can use similar functions e.g. sum average, if, ifs, sum average, max, mini, values, all the calculate values just as you would in Excel, automated formatting, Apps Script can apply custom formatting, firstly custom formatting, second conditional formatting, including colors, font styles and cell formatting to create a visually applying report, next is visualization, you can easily create charts and graphs using Apps Script, visualizing data trends and patterns.
