I have the following function:
function addrow() {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const ws = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
ws.appendRow(["apple", "orange", "banana"]);
}
appendRow just adds the items in the array on the last available row on the spreadsheet.
how do i make it start from a designated row (say row #10) and then just keep adding rows, "pushing" all the other rows down?
so if i set the script to start on row 10, when i execute, items will go in row 10, when i execute again, items will go in row 10 again, and the items from previous execution will now be in row 11 etc..
appendRow always appends the data onto the last row, there is nothing we can do about it.
There are many possible ways to append in the middle of the sheet, but the easiest way is to use insertRows() or other insertRow functions:
insertRow functions:
Feel free to test them one by one and see if they are applicable to your issue. They are generally similar, but differs on how many and where they insert the row/s.
Code:
function addrow() {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const ws = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var data = ["apple", "orange", "banana"];
// shift all rows down by one from row 10
ws.insertRows(10, 1);
// then insert data into blank row (10)
ws.getRange(10, 1, 1, data.length).setValues([data]);
}
Sample Data:
Sample Output:
Note:
If you are eager to use only the appendRow to append in the middle of the sheet, then there is a way but is not an optimal solution and just a hack. Here are the steps:
Copy and store all the data from 10th-last row into a variable
Delete the data on 10th-last row in the sheet
Use appendRow to append your data (The data now should be pasted on the 10th since 10th-last row are already deleted)
Use setValues to paste the original value of 10th-last into 11th-last based on the variable's length.
Related
I am trying to copy a range from sheet 'Full' and paste the values only to a new sheet, 'Dump'. While the macro below does its action once, I am regenerating the original data range (Full), so I want to copy that new set and append to the same output page, indexed down to a blank row and keeping the first pasted data. Also then to do this 100 times.
The recoded macro is below, and I need to understand the script to add in to;
repeat the copy/paste function 100 times, and also
offset the paste range by a set number of rows.
Sorry, genuine newbie at editing google sheet macros. The Excel macro I use doesn't translate over.
Appreciate any answers you have.
function xmacro() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
spreadsheet.getRange('A1').activate();
spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Full'), true);
spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Dump'), true);
spreadsheet.getRange('Full!BK3:BT34').copyTo(spreadsheet.getActiveRange(), SpreadsheetApp.CopyPasteType.PASTE_VALUES, false);```
};
Your macro is just an automatically generated app script. You can extend its functionality by building off that with some more code. First I'll explain some of the basic concepts, if you know this, then just skip down to the code.
Sheets Concepts
Here are some basic concepts that took me forever to figure out because most of the documentation assumes you are already proficient at Javascript.
A range is a 2 dimensional array that has one array for each row, and the contents of that array are the columns:
someRange = [
[row1Col1, row1Col2, row1Col3, row1Col4],
[row2Col1, row2Col2, row2Col3, row2Col4],
[row3Col1, row3Col2, row3Col3, row3Col4]
]
To access a specific value you need to reference the row array, and then the index of the column you want.
Think about it like hotel room numbers. The first part of the number is the floor,
and the second part is the specific room on that floor.
You access arrays by calling the array name, then square brackets with the index number of the element you want.
Arrays are indexed starting at 0, so to get row 1 you would use:
someRange[0] would return the inner array [row1Col1, row1Col2, row1Col3].
But that doesn't give you a specific cell values - so you would use a second set of brackets to access the column in that row:
someRange[0][1] = 'row1Col2'
Arrays also have built in information, so you can find the length of an array by using Array.length no parenthesis.
Since the rows are in the outer array, you can get the number of rows by seeing how many inner arrays there are.
someRange.length = 3 There are 3 row arrays in the someRange array.
You can do the same with columns, since the number of columns is equal to the number of elements in an array. To get the number of elements in the first row you would use:
someRange[0].length - which would be 4
And since a range has the same number of columns for each row, you can pick any row
to get the number of columns (generally, there are always exceptions)
The Code
The first function will create a custom menu item to run the code.
// create a new menu item for your custom function
function onOpen(){
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createMenu()
.addItem('100 Copies', 'lotsOfCopies')
.addToUi();
}
function lotsOfCopies() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var copySheet = ss.getSheetByName('yourCopySheetName');
var pasteSheet = ss.getSheetByName('yourPasteSheetName');
// the range you wish to copy, change to fit your needs
var copyRange = copySheet.getRange('A1:B7');
var copyValues = copyRange.getValues();
var copyRows = copyValues.length;
var copyCols = copyValues[0].length;
// define the first row to be pasted into
var pasteRow = 1;
// define the left side column of the range to be pasted into
var pasteCol = 1
// build a loop that does the same thing 100 times,
// and each time offsets the paste range by the number of rows in the copy range
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
// for every iteration after the first,
// add the number of rows in the copy range to the variable 'row'
// example if there are 10 rows in the copy range then
// iteration 1 row = 1 Iterartion 2 row = 11, Iteration 3 row = 21
if (i > 0) {
pasteRow = +pasteRow + +copyRows
}
// build the range to paste into - it starts on pasteRow and paste col,
// and is as many rows as the copied range, and as many columns as the copied range
let pasteRange = pasteSheet.getRange(pasteRow, pasteCol, copyRows, copyCols);
// put the values from copyValues into the pasteRange
pasteRange.setValues(copyValues);
}
}
function xmacro() {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const ssh = ss.getSheetByName('Full')
const dsh = ss.getSheetByName('Dump')
ssh.getRange('BK3:BT34').copyTo(dsh.getRange('A1'), SpreadsheetApp.CopyPasteType.PASTE_VALUES, false);
}
Summary:
I need to get a range of values from one sheet, then set them into the first empty row of the second sheet. If that row is full, then append to the next.
I can get the script to set values into their corresponding cells, but not append; and I've been able to append a single cell value into an empty cell, but not the entire range. What am I not comprehending?
The goal:
Basically I'm taking user input (lets say race data) and saving it to another sheet for referencing later. (possibly to average race times by weight and height or something)
Research: I'm a bit new to this, but I've also done a good bit of research, such as ben collins free introductory course and other questions from here (just to name a couple):
[Get Range] SpreadsheetApp: getRange and setValues
[Copy Range] How to copy row ranges in Google docs?
Code
Grab my data:
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues(); //grab data
Sets the range where I want it, but doesn't append:
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1) //gets range and sets the value
So I've tried:
function r () {sheet2.getRange(newRow,1,1,data1.length).setValues(data1)};
return (r);
and even added:
sheet2.appendRow(data1);
(newRow is essentially getLastRow)
The above gives me a row of set values, then appends this in the following row: [Ljava.lang.Object;#f2a6014
-which in my research I've found what it is, but I don't understand why it happens.
I know I'm overlooking something or arranging something incorrectly but I cant figure out what it is that I'm not understanding.
Using your first two example I wrote this script and it works:
function copydata() {
const ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const sheet1=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
const sheet2=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet2');
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues();
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1);
}
And this works also assuming that you realize that data1 is only a single row but it's still a two dimensional array so you have to use data1[0] to extract the single dimensional array from the two dimensional array
function copydatatofrom() {
const ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const sheet1=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
const sheet2=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet2');
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues();
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1);
sheet2.appendRow(data1[0]);
}
I have two ranges of equal size on different sheets in the same spreadsheet. I am trying to find a row (based off of user input) in the first sheet and then use that index to modify a table in the second sheet that counts how many times that certain index has been used before (to make a nice looking pie chart).
This code runs but will not produce results on the second sheet. I've gone through the debugging process and my best guess is that for some reason, my for in loop is not running through. Attached is my code that takes in the beforementioned index and attempts to perform the second half of my goal.
function acceptToEncounterChart(ghostrow) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[1]);
ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Average Encounter Chart");
var range = sheet.getRange("B3:B14")
for(var i in range) {
if(ghostrow == i) {
var before = range[i][0].getValue()
range[i][0].setValue(before + 1);
}
}
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[0]);
};
Explanation:
I am not entirely sure what is your goal.
However, here is some fixes / improvements starting from the beginning:
You define 2 times the same variable ss with exactly the same value.
You don't need to set the active sheet, if your goal is to just get the sheet, therefore this line is redundant:
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[1]);
Variable range is not an array but a range object. You can't index it and therefore you can't also use a for loop to iterate over a single object. For the same exact reason, the code inside the if statement is wrong, you can't index range. But you don't see any errors because the if statement evaluates to false.
In JavaScript and in many other programming languages, array indexes start from 0. Since your range starts from cell B3 or row 3, you need to use i+3 to match the data with the range.
For the same reason as the previous point, ghostrow is an index, not a row. The if statement compares an array index i with ghostrow, so ghostrow should not be confused with the actual sheet row. For example, if you choose ghostrow=5 then the current script will increment the value of the cell B8 (remember i+3) by 1.
Solution:
Here is a workable code snippet:
function acceptToEncounterChart(ghostrow) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Average Encounter Chart");
var data = sheet.getRange("B3:B14").getValues().flat();
data.forEach((v,i)=>{
if(ghostrow == i){
sheet.getRange(i+3,2).setValue(v+1)
}
});
ss.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[0]);
}
Related:
Please explore the official google apps script documentation.
I am trying to get a row with a certain range to copy into the row after text ends. I had it working a few days ago, but cannot figure out where I am going wrong right now.
So far I have:
function getNextRow();
return SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getLastRow()+1;
}
function test() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var range = ss.getRange('a4:e4')
var data = range.getValues();
var nextrow = getNextRow();
ss.getRange(nextrow).setValues(data);
}
I have attempted the copyto, but cannot seem to figure it out again from the google developer's page. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
For one thing, you never specify the sheet you are working with. Which sheet of the spreadsheet should this script act on? Use getActiveSheet to pick the active one, or getSheetByName to pick a particular sheet.
Also, your function getNextRow returns an integer, which is the number of the first row that's below all the data. So far so good. But then you call ss.getRange(nextrow) where nextrow is that integer... not good. This isn't one of the acceptable ways of using this method: it needs either A1 notation, or (row, column) pair of integers for a single cell, or (row, column, number of rows, number of columns) quadruple for a range of more than one cell. Which is what you have, so use
ss.getRange(nextrow, 1, data.length, data[0].length).setValues(data);
This says: starting in the row nextrow, column 1 (meaning A), select the range of same size as data. The pair data.length, data[0].length is how one gets the height and width of data array.
That said, there is an easier way to achieve what you want, using appendRow method. Here's a function that would replace all of your code:
function test() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var range = sheet.getRange('a4:e4')
var data = range.getValues();
sheet.appendRow(data[0]);
}
This appends the content of A4:E4 in the active sheet to the bottom of the same sheet. The method appendRow takes a one-dimensional array, hence data[0] and not just data (which is two-dimensional).
I have been searching through question and example everywhere but I can not seem to find an answer. I need to set these formulas in the header row and columns AQ:1 to AV:1(AQ1:AV1).
["={"Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AF2:AF-AE2:AE)*24)+(((T2:T-S2:S)*24))+(((I2:I-H2:H)*24)),)))}",
"={"Rest Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((M2:M)*24)+(((X2:X)*24))+(((AJ2:AJ)*24)),)))}",
"={"Rest Hours Wages:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),(AI2:AI*(AJ2:AJ*24)+(L2:L*(M2:M*24)+(W2:W*(X2:X*24)))),)))}",
"={"Hours-RestHours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AQ2:AQ-AR2:AR)),)))}",
"={"Rate:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((E2:E+P2:P+AB2:AB)),)))}"],
and I need to put this into the second row of column AQ (AQ2).
["=ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AT2:AT*AU2:AU)+AS2:AS),)))}"],
I keep getting this error message and I cannot save the script.
Missing ] after element list. (line 138, file "Code")
I think I know why but I need the headers to be titled with the correct text because I use the headers in other functions.
function setFormulas(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
// This sets the formulas to be a row of sums, followed by a row of averages right below.
// The size of the two-dimensional array must match the size of the range.
var formulas = [
["={"Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AF2:AF-AE2:AE)*24)+(((T2:T-S2:S)*24))+(((I2:I-H2:H)*24)),)))}",
"={"Rest Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((M2:M)*24)+(((X2:X)*24))+(((AJ2:AJ)*24)),)))}",
"={"Rest Hours Wages:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),(AI2:AI*(AJ2:AJ*24)+(L2:L*(M2:M*24)+(W2:W*(X2:X*24)))),)))}",
"={"Hours-RestHours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AQ2:AQ-AR2:AR)),)))}",
"={"Rate:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((E2:E+P2:P+AB2:AB)),)))}",
"={"Wages:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AT2:AT*AU2:AU)+AS2:AS),)))}"],
["=ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AT2:AT*AU2:AU)+AS2:AS),)))}"],
];
var cell = sheet.getRange("AQ1:AW2");
cell.setFormulas(formulas);
}
Am I missing something or am I doing it completely wrong and need to find another way to do it. I also need to add the formulas to every sheet in the spreadsheet but I have not been able to test if it works. Thank you in advance for any help.
UPD:
It seems like double quotes are interfering here. To avoid this, you can use single quotes for formula enclosure and double quotes within formula, like this:
'={"Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AF2:AF-AE2:AE)*24)+(((T2:T-S2:S)*24))+(((I2:I-H2:H)*24)),)))}'
As mentioned in comments:
Arrays would expand so you are likely to need setting formulas in one row, like AQ1:AW1
Besides, if there's source data in columns AQ:AU (by the looks of formulas), setting array formulas in the same columns will most likely return error: Array result was not expanded because it would overwrite data in AQ18.
You seem to have an extra } at the end of the last formula
Try this and adjust to your needs:
function setFormulas(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
// This sets the formulas to be a row of sums, followed by a row of averages right below.
// The size of the two-dimensional array must match the size of the range.
var formulas = [
['={"Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AF2:AF-AE2:AE)*24)+(((T2:T-S2:S)*24))+(((I2:I-H2:H)*24)),)))}',
'={"Rest Hours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((M2:M)*24)+(((X2:X)*24))+(((AJ2:AJ)*24)),)))}',
'={"Rest Hours Wages:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),(AI2:AI*(AJ2:AJ*24)+(L2:L*(M2:M*24)+(W2:W*(X2:X*24)))),)))}',
'={"Hours-RestHours:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AQ2:AQ-AR2:AR)),)))}',
'={"Rate:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((E2:E+P2:P+AB2:AB)),)))}',
'={"Wages:";ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AT2:AT*AU2:AU)+AS2:AS),)))}',
'=ArrayFormula((IF(LEN(AE2:AE),((AT2:AT*AU2:AU)+AS2:AS),)))']
];
var cell = sheet.getRange("AW1:BC1");
cell.setFormulas(formulas);
}