Generate and Email PDF From a Range of Cells in Google Sheets - google-apps-script

Question

This is my first time posting a question and I'm a complete novice so I apologize upfront if I don't include all the information you may need.
I have a Google Sheet that contains several tabs of data that is hand-keyed into a table. For eg:
Data Entry Table in Sheet
Within each sheet, there are numerous tables where the data from each "company" is entered that falls within a specific region.
What I'm trying to do is adjust a script that will go to the sheet specified, grab a range of cells for a specific table, convert it to a PDF and email it using the email address listed in another tab of the same sheet. I have searched online and found the following script:
function emailSpreadsheetAsPDF() {
DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
DriveApp.getFiles();
// This is the link to my spreadsheet with the Form responses and the Invoice Template sheets
// Add the link to your spreadsheet here
// or you can just replace the text in the link between "d/" and "/edit"
// In my case is the text: 17I8-QDce0Nug7amrZeYTB3IYbGCGxvUj-XMt8uUUyvI
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl("SHEETURLGOESHERE/edit");
// We are going to get the email address from the cell "B7" from the "Invoice" sheet
// Change the reference of the cell or the name of the sheet if it is different
const value = ss.getSheetByName("emails").getRange("A2").getValue();
const email = value.toString();
// Subject of the email message
const subject = ss.getSheetByName("emails").getRange("B2").getValue();
// Email Text. You can add HTML code here - see ctrlq.org/html-mail
const body = "Sent via Generate Invoice from Google Form and print/email it";
// Again, the URL to your spreadsheet but now with "/export" at the end
// Change it to the link of your spreadsheet, but leave the "/export"
const url = 'SHEETURLGOESHERE/export?';
const exportOptions =
'exportFormat=pdf&format=pdf' + // export as pdf
'&size=letter' + // paper size letter / You can use A4 or legal
'&landscape=true' + // orientation portal, use false for landscape
'&fitw=true' + // fit to page width false, to get the actual size
'&sheetnames=false&printtitle=false' + // hide optional headers and footers
'&pagenumbers=false&gridlines=false' + // hide page numbers and gridlines
'&fzr=false' + // do not repeat row headers (frozen rows) on each page
'&gid=879200050' // the sheet's Id. Change it to your sheet ID.
'&if=false' +
'&ic=false' +
'&r1=51' +
'&c1=0' +
'&r2=102' +
'&c2=20';
// You can find the sheet ID in the link bar.
// Select the sheet that you want to print and check the link,
// the gid number of the sheet is on the end of your link.
var params = {method:"GET",headers:{"authorization":"Bearer "+ ScriptApp.getOAuthToken()}};
// Generate the PDF file
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url+exportOptions, params).getBlob();
// Send the PDF file as an attachement
GmailApp.sendEmail(email, subject, body, {
htmlBody: body,
attachments: [{
fileName: ss.getSheetByName("emails").getRange("B2").getValue() + ".pdf",
content: response.getBytes(),
mimeType: "application/pdf"
}]
});
// Save the PDF to Drive. The name of the PDF is going to be the name of the Company (cell B5)
const nameFile = ss.getSheetByName("01_Allegany_R3").getRange("A52").getValue().toString() +".pdf"
DriveApp.createFile(response.setName(nameFile));
}
While the above code does create the PDF and email it, it's not generating the PDF from the range I enter here:
const exportOptions =
'exportFormat=pdf&format=pdf' + // export as pdf
'&size=letter' + // paper size letter / You can use A4 or legal
'&landscape=true' + // orientation portal, use false for landscape
'&fitw=true' + // fit to page width false, to get the actual size
'&sheetnames=false&printtitle=false' + // hide optional headers and footers
'&pagenumbers=false&gridlines=false' + // hide page numbers and gridlines
'&fzr=false' + // do not repeat row headers (frozen rows) on each page
'&gid=879200050' // the sheet's Id. Change it to your sheet ID.
'&if=false' +
'&ic=false' +
'&r1=51' +
'&c1=0' +
'&r2=102' +
'&c2=20';
If anyone is able to provide some help to me, I'd greatly appreciate it but I am a novice and not familiar with writing scripts so please be patient, if possible :)
Thank you

Answer 1

You need to put the gid parameter at the end of the export options:
const exportOptions =
'exportFormat=pdf&format=pdf' + // export as pdf
'&size=letter' + // paper size letter / You can use A4 or legal
'&landscape=true' + // orientation portal, use false for landscape
'&fitw=true' + // fit to page width false, to get the actual size
'&sheetnames=false&printtitle=false' + // hide optional headers and footers
'&pagenumbers=false&gridlines=false' + // hide page numbers and gridlines
'&fzr=false' + // do not repeat row headers (frozen rows) on each page
'&if=false' +
'&ic=false' +
'&r1=51' +
'&c1=0' +
'&r2=102' +
'&c2=20'+
'&gid=879200050'; // the sheet's Id. Change it to your sheet ID.