{"id":1680,"date":"2016-11-15T01:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technology.dearbornschools.org\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2016-11-15T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T01:16:51","slug":"google-update-with-autocrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2016\/11\/15\/google-update-with-autocrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Update with AutoCrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are using AutoCrat to share information or create mail merges automatically. This is a fantastically efficient way to share information. Please be aware that Google has just made a change that may effect these forms. If you automatically collect user names, Google is changing the name of this field from &lt;&lt;username&gt;&gt; to &lt;&lt;Email Address&gt;&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Google has recently made a change to the field that automatically collects email addresses, changing it from &lt;&lt;username&gt;&gt; to &lt;&lt;Email Address&gt;&gt;. As Autocrat basically creates merge messages, it\u2019s still looking for &lt;&lt;username&gt;&gt; and will generate an error in the send status column (e.g. Error: Invalid email: undefined).<\/p>\n<p>To fix this you&#8217;ll need to go through all of your spreadsheets and edit your templates. Unfortunately, it appears the changes are rolling out arbitrarily (I have a mix of spreadsheets that have been updated).<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are using AutoCrat to share information or create mail merges automatically. This is a fantastically efficient way to share information. Please be aware that Google has just made a change that may effect these forms. If you automatically collect user names, Google is changing the name of this field from &lt;&lt;username&gt;&gt; to &lt;&lt;Email &#8230; <a title=\"Google Update with AutoCrat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/2016\/11\/15\/google-update-with-autocrat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Google Update with AutoCrat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-googleapps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}