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A Gmail contextual gadget is a gadget that is triggered by clues in Gmail, such as the contents of Subject lines and email messages. For example, Gmail already provides a YouTube contextual gadget. If the body of an email contains a link to a YouTube video, a clickable thumbnail view of the video appears at the bottom of the email.

A Gmail contextual gadget is a gadget that is triggered by clues in Gmail, such as the contents of Subject lines and email messages. For example, Gmail already provides a YouTube contextual gadget. If the body of an email contains a link to a YouTube video, a clickable thumbnail view of the video appears at the bottom of the email.

References

See the main documentation at google.

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Gmail extension/gadget API - how to add a button to the compose toolbar?

I'm trying to figure out how can I add a button to the Gmail compose window. In "Gmail Labs" they have some extensions that add certain buttons For example "Send & Archive" button and "Inserting images" button, so I assume this is possible. I…
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Gmail Contextual Gadget (Gmail plugin/extension): Deprecated? Impossible? How? (Can't do OAuth 2.0)

We need to develop an in-house gmail extension to process incoming emails, allow recipients to interact with our in-house software. I have been trying to figure out how to use OAuth 2.0 in Gmail Contextual Gadget, but I can't find any specific…
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Permissions error using UrlFetchApp in Gmail Add-on

I am just starting to try building a new Gmail Add-on, and am running into the following error message: "You do not have permission to call fetch" This happens when testing the add-on in the Script Editor, and also when deployed inside my Gmail.…
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Gmail contextual gadget broken

In the last few days there appeared to be a problem with the Gmail contextual gadget, that uses the messageID extractor.This gadget has been functional in our production Gmail environment for a few years, but now it seems to be broken, probably due…
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Gmail contextual gadget

I guess question one is - is it actually possible to create a contextual gadget for gmail right now? I have spent the last 2 days solid reading the (very out of date) documentation backwards and forwards, and every forum post I could find on the…
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Get the Username in a Gmail Contextual Gadget

I am writing a Gmail Contextual Gadget, and in order to authenticate the user correctly on the server, i need to know their full email address (john@googleapps.com). I can retrieve the domain (googleapps.com) but not the username. Using the content…
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Unable to deploy Contextual Gadget using Google Apps Extensions Console

Following these instructions: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/extensions-console/ I am unable to deploy an in-house Contextual Gadget to a Google Apps Domain. Creating, assigning Manifest/Extractor(including validation) and deploying…
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Develop Gmail Contextual Gadget without Google App domain?

I'm looking into creating a Gmail Contextual Gadget. I've created a couple of simple gadgets that integrate into Google Calendar, and it was simple enough with those to publish the gadget manifest and add them to the calendar through the "add any…
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Accessing attachments using gmail contextual gadgets

I'd like to save an email, along with attachments, from Gmail (Google Apps) to another database for CRM-like functionality. However, according to the docs, "Extractors can not read email attachments". My question: Is it possible to somehow use some…
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Chrome Extension or Gmail Contextual Gadget?

I've been looking into adding an "extension" for gmail, this is for an application at work, basically we want to somehow integrate some options (buttons), somewhere contextual to the email that's being viewed currently. Our users, will then be able…
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How to access email attachments using gmail Contextual Gadget

Is there any way to get mail attachments using gmail Contextual Gadget. With extractors it is not possible to read mail attachments.
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Google Contextual Email Gadget Not Working

I'm attempting to create an inhouse Contextual Gadget that will extract the email address from the Subject or Body of a gmail message. I modified the Hello World sample from the Developers Guide and used the supported…
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Some users randomly not able to see contextual Gmail gadget

We're the developer of this gadget, and it's been running for a few years. We have end customers reporting that the toolbar is disappearing for some users, and are also seeing this for some of our own users. The toolbar is enabled in all cases for…
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GMail Contextual Gadget not working

I'm trying to deploy a contextual gadget in my domain. I have followed the development guides but the gadget does not show up. I think that the problem is about "Data access": event if the installation seems to go smooth, in the Google Apps console…
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How to uniquely identify a message a contextual gadget?

I need uniquely identify a GMail message from my gadget because I need to download the message (planning to do it using IMAP). Reading the developer's guide I guess that my best choices are extracting the message by using Gmail-MessageID extractor.…
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