function sortResponses() {
var Sheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Fall 01")
sheet.sort(3, false);
}
I have a Sheet called Fall 01 in my google Sheets, where I explicítly had to give the script access to, but it won't open, what am I missing?
Explanation/Issue:
The issue is that you have a standalone script which therefore is not bound to a google spreadsheet and as a result SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet() returns null.
Solutions:
There are two ways you can follow:
Solution 1:
Use SpreadsheetApp.openById(id) or SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(url):
var Sheets = SpreadsheetApp.openById("Put your Spreadsheet ID").getSheetByName("Fall 01");
or
var Sheets = SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl("Put your Spreadsheet URL").getSheetByName("Fall 01");
Solution 2:
Go to the spreadsheet file that you want to work with and click on Tools => Script editor on the top menu of the spreadsheet file and put your current code there.
Please Note
If this is your only code, sheet is not defined, therefore you will get another error down the road. You most likely want to replace sheet with Sheets or the other way around. Be careful with this.
Related
I have an active cell in an open google sheet. I have a macro in a different spreadsheet that wants to get the value of the target active cell in a different google spreadsheet. Currently when I run the macro it is finding Sheet1 in the target workbook, but not the active sheet. How do I find the active sheet and active cell when I run the macro?
function getFormula() {
//Precedents
var ssThis=SpreadsheetApp.openById("1VMwjomfjtJLIQc<replaced>8J1zWx_GujXuCY");
//Universal Demo - v5
var tss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1Pev8gCbl_Mn9JMJId<replaced>Cbc0aikBZambI");
var targetSheet=tss.getActiveSheet();
var targetSheetName=targetSheet.getName();
Logger.log(targetSheetName);
var cellThis=targetSheet.getActiveCell();
var targetFormula=cellThis.getFormula();
Logger.log(targetFormula);
getPrecedents(targetFormula);
}
The script doesn’t have a direct relation with the Sheets UI regarding the active cells, sheets, etc, at least that you’re using a container bound spreadsheet and you’re running the script with a macro or add-on inside the spreadsheets UI (as i understand you’re doing). But in this case, you’ll only be able to work with the active cells on the spreadsheet that’s container bound.
To summarize, the functions getActiveSheet() and getActiveCell() will only return the correct value for a container bound spreadsheet, running the script inside the spreadsheet (macro or add-on) and using the “getActive...” functions to obtain the spreadsheet, sheet or range, (instead of openById()) [1]. For example:
var ssThis = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var activeSheet=ssThis.getActiveSheet();
var cellThis=activeSheet.getCurrentCell();
In any other cases, on the spreadsheet you open, it will always return the first sheet and the first celL (A1). At least you use the “activate()” function [2] or “setActive…” functions [3] to set the active cell or sheet, but for this you would have to know the active cell.
[1] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/spreadsheet-app#getactive
[2] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/range
[3] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/spreadsheet-app#setactiverangerange
I have a recorded macro in google sheets for one sheet in my spreadsheet. I would like to edit the script so that it will apply to all sheets in the spreadsheet (so that I won't have to run the recorded macro in each sheet separately). I've seen articles on how to do this in Excel but is it possible in Google Sheets?
are you sure it doesn't work on the other sheets? recorded macros usually use the active sheet not a named sheet.
Although I am 9 months late in answering this, here is a working answer to your question with an example to clear all visible sheets using another function called ClearActiveSheet. If someone is still looking for how to do this, this should give an idea.
function ClearActiveSheet() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sheet = spreadsheet.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange('A1').activate();
sheet.clear();
};
function ClearAllVisibleSheets() {
var sheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheets();
sheets.forEach(function(sheet) {
//You would need to make this the current active sheet, so that you can call the ClearActiveSheet function that works on active sheet
sheet.activate()
// Now since you have this sheet activated, you can call the function to clear the active sheet
ClearActiveSheet();
});
};
Select the function ClearAllVisibleSheets in GoogleSpredsheets from Tools-> ScriptsEditor -> SelectFunction (ClearAllVisibleSheets) and run/or debug and you will see this do the job.
P.S: If this satisfies your need, remember to upvote and kindly accept this as an answer :).
We are building a google sheets database where each user has their own spreadsheet that accesses a central sheet for information using apps script.
This means that with 50 employees, we have 50 spreadsheets to maintain. I am trying to find a way to push updates to all 50 spreadsheets without having to update each one manually. I have all the apps script code in a library that each user's sheet references, so I have the coding maintenance figured out. But keeping each users actual spreadsheet up to date with the latest features is proving difficult.
One way I'm figuring to do that is have a "Template" user sheet that gets updated with the changes/new features. Then when each user opens their spreadsheet, it cross references all of its sheets to the template sheet, and checks if it needs to replace it's sheet with the latest sheet based on time that it was updated in the template sheet. For example, when the sheet "Project Report" in the template is newer than the "Project Report" sheet in the user's spreadsheet, the user SS deletes it's current "Project Report" and copies the template "Project Report" sheet to it's own via the copyTo() method.
I have this all working with apps script, but the issue now is that when the user's local sheet is deleted and replaced with the new updated seet, all formula references to that sheet in other sheets break and replace the reference with #REF. I had planned on overcoming this by using only Named Ranges, but even the named ranges break when the sheet is replaced to the point where even the apps script can no longer find the named range because the named range it is looking for was automatically renamed when the new version of the sheet was imported (aka, "CustomNamedRange" in the template SS was renamed to "'SheetName'!CustomNamedRange" in the user SS).
The only way I know to overcome this issue at this point is to create a centralized "Range Index" spreadsheet that has all the named ranges with their destination sheet and range. I would have to create a custom function that filters through the range index and finds the address it needs based on the name given. For example, instead of calling "CustomNamedRange" in a sheet formula, I would call custom function: getNamedRange("CustomNamedRange"), and apps script would return the range found in the range index. And when a sheet is replaced with the newer version, no references would break because all references go through the apps script filter function.
The only problem with this is that I can foresee this method (calling every range needed in the script through a custom function) slowing down my spreadsheet A LOT because every time a range is called for, it will have to go search through the range index to find it and return it.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how to accomplish what I'm looking for? As in keeping 50+ individual spreadsheets updated with new features without having to do it manually and without breaking all the references?
Sorry for the long post, but I appreciate any ideas!
I had a similar problem and was able to resolve it by using SheetAPI to replace text. I have a template called Sheet1_Template and its hidden. I delete Sheet1, copy Sheet1_Template, show it and then replace all occurances of "Sheet1" in formulas to "Sheet1". Sheet API has to be enabled in the Resources and Google API Console.
function copyTemplate() {
try {
var spread = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = spread.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
if( sheet !== null ) spread.deleteSheet(sheet);
sheet = spread.getSheetByName("Sheet1_Template");
sheet = sheet.copyTo(spread);
sheet.setName("Sheet1");
sheet.showSheet();
sheet.activate();
spread.moveActiveSheet(0);
var requests = {"requests":[{"findReplace":{"allSheets":true,"find":"Sheet1","replacement":"Sheet1","includeFormulas":true}}]};
Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate(requests, spread.getId());
}
catch(err) {
Logger.log("error in copyTemplate: "+err);
}
}
I haven't been able to test implementation of it yet, but I believe the answer above is what I was originally looking for.
I haven't spent any time messing with the API yet, so in the meantime I have found another solution:
Google Sheets recently added macros to it's feature set. The beauty of this is that You can see and edit the macro code after you've recorded your actions in the sheet. For now, I plan on recording a macro when I make updates to the template sheet, then copying the script for that macro into a custom function in my library that will run every time a user opens their spreadsheet. When they open their SS, apps script will check to see if the library's macro function has a later date than the last time the sheet was opened. If it does have a new date, then it will run the macro script, and that user's SS should get updated to the same state as the template.
Also if you are seeing that you cannot run the query from #TheWizEd
It may be due to "Sheets API" not being enabled at Advanced Google services. Please enable>
In the script editor, select Resources > Advanced Google services In the dialog that appears, click the on/off switch for Google Sheets API v4. Please turn on. Click OK button.
Thank you so much to TheWizEd for getting me started (please vote for that post too).
This is what I needed:
function replaceFormulasInSheet(sheet, searchFor, replaceWith) {
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/67151030/470749
// First you need to do this to enable the feature: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/advanced#enabling_advanced_services
// https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/apps-script
// https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/request#findreplacerequest
// https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/batchUpdate
const spread = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const requests = {
"requests": [
{
"findReplace": {
// "allSheets": true, Omitting this property and instead setting the sheetId property is the only way to effectively set allSheets as false.
"sheetId": sheet.getSheetId(),
"find": searchFor,
"replacement": replaceWith,
"includeFormulas": true
}
}
]
};
return Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate(requests, spread.getId());
}
Also note that it does not work for sheets with hyphens in their names. If you need hyphens in their names, remove the hyphens beforehand and re-add them after.
I have a Google SpreadSheet (filled through a form) associated to a Google Apps Script.
Now, the spreadsheet contains too many cells and I'm not able to load it anymore (server timeout).
I'm not interested in the data, but I really want to retrieve the script (the source code).
Unfortunately, the only way I know is to load the SpreadSheet first :-(
(Copying the Document ends in a timeout and the script is not copied.)
Any suggestion?
Regards,
Rémi.
Create another script which makes a copy of original spreadsheet to backup the data and then clear the original spreadsheet through the script.
However this seems an issue which should be reported to Google Spreadsheet Forum
Here is an example code which will backup the spreadsheet as a copy and clear the original spreadsheet
function backupDataAndClear(){
var sourceSS = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID_OF_ORIGINAL_SS');
var newSS = sourceSS.copy('Backup SS');
var sourceSheets = sourceSS.getSheets();
for(var i in sourceSheets){
sourceSheets[i].clear();
}
}
I'm writing a Google Apps Script on my Google Site and am trying to use data that is provides on 2 different tabs in a Google Spreadsheet. From what I thought I understood from the documentation I could use all available methods in the SpreadsheetApp class on a Sites script by just using the openById() method.
Anyway here is what I tried to do
function doGet(e) {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.openById(SPREADSHEET_ID_GOES_HERE).getActiveSheet();
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(doc.getSheetId()[1]);
//....
}
I get the error
Cannot find method setActiveSheet(. (line 4)
I'm pulling my work off this link: Storing Data in Google Spreadsheets and also the Ui Service section listed under Building User Interfaces.
Anybody seeing what I'm doing wrong in these two lines?
setActiveSheet should be used only with the spreadsheet displayed by the UI, a sheet in a spreadsheet you have opened in your browser.
With SpreadsheetApp.openById you are opening a spreadsheet to access its data, but it doesn't open in your browser. It hasn't an UI.
I found this comments in https://developers.google.com/apps-script/class_spreadsheetapp?hl=es-ES#openById :
// The code below opens a spreadsheet using it's ID and gets the name for it.
// Note that the spreadsheet is NOT physically opened on the client side.
// It is opened on the server only (for modification by the script).
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("abc1234567");
Some examples assume your script is running into your spreadsheet. It's not your case, because you are running a script as a service, which should have its own User Interface.
I think #megabyte1024 addresses the syntax errors, but in answer to your comment to #YoArgentina:
Do you happen to know of a way to access data on different tabs then
through a service not running inside the Spreadsheet?
Does this sort of help?
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById(SPREADSHEET_ID_GOES_HERE);
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
// the variable sheets is an array of Sheet objects
var sheet1A1 = sheets[0].getRange('A1').getValue();
var sheet2A1 = sheets[1].getRange('A1').getValue();
You need to access each sheet separately.
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById(SPREADSHEET_ID_GOES_HERE);
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0]; // "access data on different tabs"
ss.setActiveSheet(sheet);
There is at least one problem in these two lines. The 1st one is that the setActiveSheet method parameters is a Sheet class object and the getSheetId method returns an integer value. By the way this method (getSheetId) is not documented. The 2nd problem can happen if the SpreadsheetApp has no active spreadsheet. In this case there is the "Please select an active spreadsheet first." error. Use the SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSpreadsheet method to set an active spreadsheet.