how to map values to its corresponding row name - google-apps-script

Question

There is a collection of data which needs to be shown in the spreadsheet. I mean data will have values for each row(in this case Housing, CapitalRaised, SizePerSquare etc). How to plot below data in the spreadsheet in following format?
the data comes in this format
[
{
"Housing": "Before housing price",
"Price": 5,
"Rate": 0.75
},
{
"CapitalRaised": 5000,
"SizePerSquare": 12,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 1.25
},
{
"CapitalRaised": 6000,
"SizePerSquare": 24,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 1
},
{
"CapitalRaised": 7000,
"SizePerSquare": 24,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 0.75,
}
]
Here is the code
function plotData() {
var data =[
{
"Housing": "Before Capital Raised",
"Price": 5,
"Rate": 0.75
},
{
"CapitalRaised": 5000,
"SizePerSquare": 12,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 1.25
},
{
"CapitalRaised": 6000,
"SizePerSquare": 24,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 1
},
{
"AmountRaised": 7000,
"SizePerSquare": 24,
"Price": null,
"RatePerSquare": 0.75,
}
]
var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheetname = "PlotData2";
var sheet = activeSheet.getSheetByName(sheetname);
var startRow = 4;
var range = "'" + sheetname + "'!B" + startRow;
}
Here is the link to spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tLNZv4F4lpBAnmHN5H0pBiirW4MVIfTexll9jPA03hI/edit#gid=1286090443

Answer 1

You want to achieve the following situation using Google Apps Script.
From:
var data = [
{"Housing":"Before housing price","Price":5,"Rate":0.75},
{"CapitalRaised":5000,"SizePerSquare":12,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":1.25},
{"CapitalRaised":6000,"SizePerSquare":24,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":1},
{"CapitalRaised":7000,"SizePerSquare":24,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":0.75}
];
To:
The header titles of rows are constant.
If my understanding is correct, how about this answer? In this answer, from your question, I thought that the header titles of rows are constant. I used this situation.
Sample script:
Before you use the following scripts, please enable Sheets API at Advanced Google services. When the all column length of the array is not the same, the method of Spreadsheets.Values.update is easy to put the array to Spreadsheet. So I used Sheets API.
function plotData() {
var data = [
{"Housing":"Before housing price","Price":5,"Rate":0.75},
{"CapitalRaised":5000,"SizePerSquare":12,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":1.25},
{"CapitalRaised":6000,"SizePerSquare":24,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":1},
{"CapitalRaised":7000,"SizePerSquare":24,"Price":null,"RatePerSquare":0.75}
];
// Convert "data" to an array for putting to Spreadsheet.
var rowHeaders = ["Housing", "Price", "CapitalRaised", "RatePerSquare", "SizePerSquare"];
var values = data.reduce(function(ar, e, i) {
rowHeaders.forEach(function(g, n) {
if (!Array.isArray(ar[n])) ar[n] = [g];
ar[n][i + 1] = e[g];
});
return ar;
}, []);
// Put the converted array to Spreadsheet.
var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheetname = "PlotData2";
var sheet = activeSheet.getSheetByName(sheetname);
var startRow = 4;
var range = "'" + sheetname + "'!B" + startRow;
Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.update({values: values}, activeSheet.getId(), range, {valueInputOption: "USER_ENTERED"});
}
In above script, if there are the keys, which are not included in rowHeaders, in the keys of object of data, the values of the keys are not used. Please be careful this.
For example, Rate of the first element of data is not used.
Note:
In your data, it seems that the data of the data comes in this format is different from the data of Here is the code. "CapitalRaised": 7000, and "AmountRaised": 7000 are different. From your image of the expected result, I supposed that you want to use the data of the data comes in this format. If I misunderstood your goal, I apologize.
Reference:
Method: spreadsheets.values.update
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the direction you want, I apologize.