I need to append data to a new column of a spreadsheet, every day.
But I want to make it automatically, just like spreadsheets.values.append does: but for columns.
spreadsheets.values.append will only append data to new rows, not columns!
I have tried these params:
majorDimension does work for me:
Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "majorDimension": Cannot bind query parameter. Field 'majorDimension' could not be found in request message.
InsertDataOption doesn't seem to make any difference
I'm sending data to a named range called "foo". When foo is already filled, the API places data at the bottom. I need the data to be place to the right.
You could push each element of the new column into each row of the 2d array with something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68886835/7215091 In that case I used splice but you could probably use push instead.
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I am populating a Google Doc template based on a Google Form submission. Upon submit, the program copies the template Google Doc, captures the first item from the Google Form which is always the person's name (because this is a required field), and then replaces {{Name}} in the new file with the entered name using:
var name = itemResponses[0].getResponse();
body.replaceText('{{Name}}', name);
That works correctly. But then I iterate through the rest of the item response and not all the items are required, so I use a lookup table in a Google sheet. The loop takes the item id in the item response and then looks up the text that the response will replace. Then the program does:
var textToReplace //this value is from column B in the Google Sheet lookup table
var newText //this value is the entered response from the Google Form
body.replaceText(textToReplace, newText);
When I do this, I am getting a "Exception: Invalid argument: searchPattern" error. Why are these two body.replaceText() functions different? They are both finding a variable with in double brackets in the Google doc, but it only works in one case.
And to be clear, this was previously working correctly for the last couple of months and only recently started to not work (maybe Google changed something??). My hypothesis is that it has to do with a regex pattern in the first parameter of replaceText.
The "searchPattern" error is a good clue, in certain circumstances, it tells us the value of "textTopReplace" is not a valid search pattern. Since the code hasn't changed, the lookup table in your spreadsheet, or the fields on the form probably have.
One of your lookups is returning a value that isn't a valid search pattern. Perhaps it is returning Null, or an empty string?
You can get more information by using console.log to log debug info to the stackdriver log interface provided by Google, like so:
console.log('text to replace: "'+textToReplace+'"'); //this value is from column B in the Google Sheet lookup table
console.log('value: "'+newText+'"'); //this value is the entered response from the Google Form
body.replaceText(textToReplace, newText);
Then, to view the logs, select "stackdriver logging" from the View menu.
Can I populate a list with JSON data? I have a general list containing data available for several sessions but I need to filter them with my current session and insert them to another list. My idea is to use the filtered JSON data since I successfully filtered them in JSON format. I've looked into some threads that might relate but currently get nothing. Hope someone can point me to the right page.
I missed this page: or maybe I overlooked it: https://forum.alphasoftware.com/showthread.php?119524-How-to-populate-a-List-from-a-JSON-formatted-field.
Anyway, populating JSON data into list in alpha anywhere is easy to be done. Firstly, get the JSON data(in my case I produce them from another list). With this data(already in JSON format), I do the filter using:
var filtered_json = find_in_object(JSON.parse('my_JSON_data'), {my_filter_condition});
Then, the result should be in [object object][object object]
Finally, populate the result to the list.
var lObj= {dialog.object}.getControl('my_list_ID')
lObj.populate(filtered_json);
A further question to this topic:
If I ImportJSON with an added SUBSTITUTE function for more than one entry, it only shows the first entry
That's my code now:
=(VALUE(SUBSTITUTE(ImportJSON("https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/bitcoin?localization=false&tickers=true&market_data=true&community_data=true&developer_data=true&sparkline=true";"/market_data/price_change_percentage_7d_in_currency/usd,/market_data/price_change_percentage_7d_in_currency/eur";"noHeaders");".";",")))
I want to substitute the "." for ";" so I can show some of the parsed values as percentage. But of course I still want all the other data from the JSON to be shown.
Is there maybe another way to format imported JSON data? - Without referencing them in another table and formatting them there.
Hey there and thanks in advance.
I'm exporting the API of an application onto my spreadsheet, which works fine. Due to how the API was programmed however, some of the columns now contain the TypeID (an integer representing the "name") and not the actual name. I know what TypeID represents what Name, so what I'm looking for is a way to substitute all entries of said column with the actual name.
I have already begun to make a humongus switch case in the script editor that just checks every cell in that column and based of the contents substitues the right name, but as you can probably imagine that would take a while.
Just wondering if there is a "cleaner" and more effective way.
I'd recommend making a JSON object to represent your switch case and call that
i.e :
var jsonMap = {"TYPEID":"NAME"};
Then call :
jsonMap[fieldValue]
To return the correct value for that field
You could have the script trigger on row modification and have it translate that way.
Alternatively I'd recommend mapping the field before it is exported into sheets using the language you're exporting in and have the data enter the sheet correctly
So I have this google script that I want to use to create charts in my spreadsheet. I'm basically programatically creating content (with the use of spreadsheet data) that I then want to plot. The way I used to do it is by filling one of the sheets with all the data and then using that data to plot, but I was hoping to skip that step and feed the javascript arrays directly into my addRange method.
So I've got a script that creates a new chart:
// insert the scenario chart
var scenarioChartBuilder = sheet.newChart();
scenarioChartBuilder.setPosition(5, 6, 5, 5)
.setChartType(Charts.ChartType.AREA)
.addRange(rangeObject);
sheet.insertChart(scenarioChartBuilder.build());
The problem is; how do I make "rangeObject", given that I only have javascript arrays, and don't want to use actual spreadsheet data? Or is there another way of plotting data that isn't actually in a spreadsheet?
Range data is actually just a multidimensional array.
So a rangeObject could just be defined like;
var rangeobject = [[data, data, data],[data, data, data]];
The first array represents the row and the second array the column data.
programmatically you could get the data like;
var dataFirstRowSecondColumn = rangedata[0][1]; //0 indexed array!
So, to add a range is just to pass a multidimensional array (with content data).
But beware ;-) When adding to a chart i would think that you would have to mind that each column would only contain on kind of data to be valid.
In code you could directly use my first example.