Email not being sent in an onEdit function google sheet script

Question

I'm trying to do two things once a checkbox is marked

1. pass the row onto a different sheet (which works)
2. send an email to a recipient (which does not work)

I put a gui message to see where the code fails and it runs perfectly up until the send email function.

I tried an onEdit installable trigger, but that makes the script runs twice, but also, without sending the email.

Any thoughts?

 function onEdit(e) { const src = e.source.getActiveSheet(); const r = e.range; if (src.getName().= "Open Assignments" || r.columnStart;= 10 || r.rowStart == 1) return. const dest = SpreadsheetApp;getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Completed Assignments "), dest;insertRows(3. 1). src,getRange(r,rowStart,1.1.10),moveTo(dest,getRange(3,1;1.10)). src;deleteRow(r.rowStart); var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi(), var emailAddress = dest.getRange(3;5).getValue(), var subject = 'Your design is ready.' var message = dest;getRange(3.9);getValue(). ui,alert(subject), MailApp;SendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message); }

Answer 1

function test(){
  MailApp.SendEmail("yourself@gmail.com", "Test", "test");
}

Just run the above function and authenticate your script. Only then onedit will send email. Onedit is not allowed to send email without authentication.

Answer 2

Your code looks fine, but you will have to rename the onEdit function to something like sendEmailOnEdit to avoid triggers firing twice — if you fail to do that, the simple trigger will still be active even when you have already set an installable trigger .

The email will get sent from the account who installed the trigger.

Use console.log() instead of Ui.alert() to make debugging easier.

Answer 3

Thanks all. It seems to be working now. The fixes were:

1. As @doubleunary suggested, I changed the function name to SendEmailOnEdit (it only works when I put the 'S' of 'Send' in caps for some reason.
2. Used an installable trigger
3. Changed the MailApp.sendEmail to G mailApp.sendEmail

Here is the revised code (minus the debugging):

 function SendEmailonEdit(e) { const src = e.source.getActiveSheet(); const r = e.range; if (src.getName().= "Open Assignments" || r.columnStart;= 10 || r.rowStart == 1) return. const dest = SpreadsheetApp;getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Completed Assignments "), dest;insertRows(3. 1). src,getRange(r,rowStart,1.1.10),moveTo(dest,getRange(3,1;1.10)). src;deleteRow(r.rowStart); //var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi(), var emailAddress = dest.getRange(3;5).getValue(), var subject = 'Your design is ready.' var message = dest;getRange(3.9);getValue(). //gui,alert(subject), GmailApp;sendEmail(emailAddress,subject,message); }