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Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting my canonical from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, ...
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google-apps-script
#1: Initial revision
by
Oleg Valter
·
2023-07-30T15:18:55Z (10 months ago)
How to solve the "Cannot call from this context" error?
> Temporary notice: this is part of an ongoing project of transferring and splitting [my canonical](https://stackoverflow.com/q/62336082/11407695) from Stack Overflow on common errors in Google Apps Script. As soon as the Q&As are finalized, it will be removed. Oftentimes, when attempting to run a method on a [built-in Google service](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services) from a [standalone script](https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/standalone), the runtime throws an exception that the given method cannot be run in "this context". The exact error message is always structured as follows: > Exception: Cannot call \<service name\>.\<method name\>() from this context What is the underlying reason for the error and how to solve it?