I have to copy data from one spreadsheet to another.
On the source I have a sheet with columns DataName and DataID
I need to copy DataName column in SSdest sheet('Data'), DataID in SSdest sheet('ID').
I can do it in several ways, but I need to be time effective due to a big load of data. I pick data using Data = Source.getDataRange().getValues()
I can paste in the correct way using a for loop with setvalue() but is time-consuming. Is there a way to paste only one column from getValues data?
as #Casper told you, you can use range.getValues() to get a multidimensional array then use range.setValues(). You only need to set the range to one column to get all the datas wanted as so : sheet.getRange(rowNumber, columnNumber, numberOfRows).getValues().
One other solution would be to select all the datas with getDataRange(), then programatically using javascript create a new array you will then add using setValues(array)
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what i'm trying to do is to update data in a google sheet and then write that data back to the sheet.
1. I read the data from the spreadsheet
2. Go over the data if needed i add a row and add columns, i.e. i change the existing data.
3. now i need to write the data back in the spreadhsheet
the only thing that i can think of is that the range is bigger than the old range of column and rows and this might be causing the problem
//Reading the data initially:
var workingSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName(storeSheetName);
var existingData = workingSheet.getDataRange().getValues(); //row 0 is column names
//do some manipulations on the data (add rows and columns)
// Writing the values :
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(storeSheetName).getRange(1,1,existingData.length,storeColumns.length).setValue(existingData);
when i try running the script in debug mode , it keeps getting stuck on the .setValues() row and will not proceed
I'm using Kimono to scrape a site that lists active development permits. For a one off data scrape it's fine, the problem is that there is no way of sorting new data. Every time Kimono scrapes it updates the entire array.
This is what the sheet currently looks like
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BH8ESAHQJrog6x8nRBOpgBN-nTN1_aDY7wr8W_YYet0/edit#gid=1865015934
The first sheet is automatically populated and overwritten by Kimono. It seems like the most logical way of making this work would be to copy the values to another sheet, adding a time stamp when this happens and then preventing duplicate values from being posted.
Following this thread is was able to muster this code
I've got the copying part down with the following:
function moveValuesOnly() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var source = ss.getRange('Building Permits!A1:D');
source.copyTo(ss.getRange('Sheet2!A1'), {contentsOnly: true});
source.clear();
}
What I am trying to figure out is how to prevent duplicates based on the URL value.
I know that it is right in front of me, but I'm drawing a blank on how to get this to work.
This Google documentation article on removing duplicates is very well written, so I won't duplicate it: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/removing_duplicates
It has exactly what you need. Read the later part of the article where it talks about how to check duplicates not for the entire row, but specific columns in that row. Once you understand that, your problem is straightforward to solve. Just use 2 arrays, to hold the contents of the rows from the 2 sheets as in the example they've given. compare the first column value of the current row. if it matches, don't copy the row over.
note: this works only when you copy row-by-row into the target sheet, not the entire range as your'e doing right now. But that's unavoidable.
I currently use the following code to bring in many values from a spreadsheet
myValues["TitleText"] = ss.getRange('B9').getValue();
I then display the values in a index.html form using the same Google Apps Script like
<div id="title"><?= data.TitleText ?></div>
I was wondering if I should use something else. Maybe like an ArrayFormula?
I guess it looks to me like I am taking many trips back to the sheet to get all of the values that I need. It would be nice to get all values in one visit thus speeding up the loading and processing of the form.
If a one trip approach is possible; what would it look like?
If the data is in an array, there is no "built-in" way to associate one value with another value. With an object, you can associate the "key" with the "value". There are ways to do the same thing with arrays, but it's a lot "trickier". Whether you should use an array or an object, depends on the "bigger picture". If you want to associate a title with a value, and the position of the title and value could be changing in the spreadsheet, then it MIGHT make sense to compile the data in an object before sending it to your HTML. But then there is the issue of performance. It can be better to construct the HTML in the server code, and then send the HTML string back to the client, and not just the data.
If you have lots of scriptlets, you might try having just one printing scriptlet, create the HTML string in the ".gs" server code, and then send the HTML back instead of sending just the data back.
If you compile the data in some special format, send the data, then you need to unscramble the data and construct the HTML, that might be more processing than just building the HTML from the start in the server code.
The getRange() method has four different parameter configurations. You are using the a1Notation variation. I would use this variation:
getRange(starting row, starting column, number of Rows, number of Columns)
Then you can use code like this:
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName('the sheet name');
var allData = sheet
.getRange(1, 1, sheet.getLastRow(), sheet.getLastColumn())
.getValues();
If you only want to get the values in column B, starting in row 2, you can do this:
var colB_Data = sheet
.getRange(2, 2, sheet.getLastRow())
.getValues();
The getValues() method returns a two dimensional array. But if you are only getting one column of data, all the inner arrays only have one element. If you need a one dimensional array, you can (in this case) convert the two dimensional array to a one dimensional array with:
colB_Data = colB_Data.toString().split(",");
So I have this google script that I want to use to create charts in my spreadsheet. I'm basically programatically creating content (with the use of spreadsheet data) that I then want to plot. The way I used to do it is by filling one of the sheets with all the data and then using that data to plot, but I was hoping to skip that step and feed the javascript arrays directly into my addRange method.
So I've got a script that creates a new chart:
// insert the scenario chart
var scenarioChartBuilder = sheet.newChart();
scenarioChartBuilder.setPosition(5, 6, 5, 5)
.setChartType(Charts.ChartType.AREA)
.addRange(rangeObject);
sheet.insertChart(scenarioChartBuilder.build());
The problem is; how do I make "rangeObject", given that I only have javascript arrays, and don't want to use actual spreadsheet data? Or is there another way of plotting data that isn't actually in a spreadsheet?
Range data is actually just a multidimensional array.
So a rangeObject could just be defined like;
var rangeobject = [[data, data, data],[data, data, data]];
The first array represents the row and the second array the column data.
programmatically you could get the data like;
var dataFirstRowSecondColumn = rangedata[0][1]; //0 indexed array!
So, to add a range is just to pass a multidimensional array (with content data).
But beware ;-) When adding to a chart i would think that you would have to mind that each column would only contain on kind of data to be valid.
In code you could directly use my first example.
I am a new convert to Google from Microsoft and the comfort of VBA!
In a Spreadsheet I use
var range = sheet.getRange(2,1,sheet.getMaxRows()-1,sheet.getMaxColumns());
to work on all the columns and sort on multiple columns.
What I need to do is ignore the data in the first column and sort the rest.
An explained solution would be appreciated!
If you use range.getValues() you will get a 2 dimension javascript array, you can sort it the way you want and then you can rewrite its value to the sheet using
sheet.getRange(2,1, array.length,array[0].length).setValues(array);