Ignoring Formula Column with LastRow script - google-apps-script

Question

I'm fairly new to AppScript, so I apologise if this is crazy easy and I'm just hopeless. I've searched a bunch, but solutions were all in slightly different formats that I wasn't sure how to utilise.
The script works to import my sheets information into the calendar, but I want my first column to be a formula column and I can't figure out how to ignore it while using LastRow.
I got the code from a tutorial online, but if you all have suggestions on what to do better/differently, let me know. Thank you!
I've tried a few different iterations in this line:
var count = spreadsheet.getRange("B2:H"+lr+"").getValues();
But I it's been trial and error, with only errors being the result.
function CreateEvent() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var calendarId = spreadsheet.getRange('K1').getValue();
var eventCal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(calendarId);
var lr = spreadsheet.getLastRow();
Logger.log(lr);
var count = spreadsheet.getRange("B2:H"+lr+"").getValues();
for (x=0; x<count.length; x++) {
var shift = count[x];
var summary = shift[0];
var guests = shift[2];
var description = shift[3];
var location = shift[4];
var startTime = shift[5];
var endTime = shift[6];
var event = {
'location': location,
'description': description,
'guests':guests +',',
}
eventCal.createEvent(summary, startTime, endTime, event)
}
}

Answer 1

Your approach is right, there is only one step that you need to take in order to create the event. The startTime and endTime parameters have to be Date type, no String. To achieve that you need to add the following changes:
var startTime = new Date(shift[5]);
var endTime = new Date(shift[6]);
With this code the strings will be converted into dates and the createEvent method will work. Please, ask for more clarification if I haven't explained myself adequately.
As a sidenote I want to commet one little thing, in the following line:
var count = spreadsheet.getRange("B2:H"+lr+"").getValues();
The last "" are not needed at all and may cause confusion, but it does certainly work. For clarity, I recommend just using:
var count = spreadsheet.getRange("B2:H"+lr).getValues();