仅允许用户在使用“仅查看”类型共享时编辑特定范围

Question

I am running a sheet which people can copy through running a script, on the template file I want users to only see one of the sheets which contains a button that runs a script to copy the file.

I really want to share the document as a 'View Only' file although I still want the users to edit the range where the button is so that they can click on this and run the script.

I have tried protecting sheets and removing editors through Apps Script by using the class protection but this doesn't seem to work - I created the below which I had hoped would work:

  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); 
  ss.getSheetByName('BALANCE SHEET').protect();
  ss.getSheetByName('LANDING SHEET').protect();
  ss.getSheetByName('CATEGORIES').protect();
  ss.getSheetByName('REMINDERS').protect();
  var user = ss.getEditors();
  ss.removeEditor(user);
  ss.addEditor('xxx@xxx.xxx');

does anyone have an idea of how I can do this please?

Answer 1

Spreadsheet.getEditors() returns a array of user s , whereas removeEditor accepts a user (singular) as a argument. Use Array.forEach to remove users:

const users = ss.getEditors();
users.forEach(user =>  ss.removeEditor(user));