I have a spreadsheet where I'm trying to add an automatic search function whenever a cell on the Sheet "List" Column 1 gets selected.
It's sort of like using a VLOOKUP function of the sheets but I've been unsuccessful trying to come up with an effective code for it.
Test Spreadsheet link
I made a simple test spreadsheet hopefully for people to easily understand how the sheet should work.
In the 'Database' sheet, there's a list of people with the fruits they like or dislike.
In the 'List' sheet, the list is reversed where the fruits are now the main list but here, when a person clicks on the cells with the fruits, the top cells should automatically update with the combined names of people who like or dislike that certain fruit.
The function should go like this:
If I click a cell on column 1 of the 'List' sheet,
A1 cell updates it's value with the active cell value
B1 cell updates it's value with the combined values based on who likes it from the 'Database' sheet Column 2.
B2 cell updates it's value similar as above but from Dislikes in Column 3
I've attached the code I currently have but I'm not able to get the last 2 steps working.
There is also a guide in the sheets on what the correct answers should look like for each fruit.
I got stuck looking for a way to make the steps 2 and 3 work. I was able to find a code here but it stops after finding one match. stackoverflow.com/questions/10838294/… My current problem is: Since the cells [B2:B] to filter from on the Database sheet has multiple values, is it possible to find all cells with at least a partial match, get the values of the cells on the left of that then list them into the B1 cell on the "List" sheet?
Test Spreadsheet link
Code.gs
function onSelectionChange(e){
var currentsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
var currentcell = currentsheet.getActiveCell();
var activerow = currentcell.getRow();
var activecol = currentcell.getColumn();
var sname = currentsheet.getName();
// Check if current sheet name is correct
if (
sname == 'List'
)
{
// Check if this on first column
if (activecol == 1)
{
// ACTION
var name = currentcell.getValue(); //Get current cell for searching
var prefsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName("Database");
var last = prefsheet.getLastRow();
var data = prefsheet.getRange(1,1,last,2).getValues(); // create an array of data from columns A and B
for(nn=0;nn<data.length;++nn){
if (data[nn][1]==name){break} ;
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange('A1').setValue('Fruit: ' + name);
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange('B1').setValue('Like: ' + data[nn][0]);
}
}
};
};
I was able to find a workaround for this and it turns out I didn't have to use a Google Script code to keep updating the formula on List!B1.
I'm new with scripting and sheets but I'll be sharing this formula here in case someone needs something like this in the future.
This is what I used on List!B1
=JOIN(", ",query(filter(Database!A2:B,REGEXMATCH(Database!B2:B,A1)),"Select Col1"))
Regexmatch does the search for partial value and returns as "TRUE"
Filter will then list these rows and query "Select Col1" will only keep the first column of the results and remove the second column. Lastly, Join formula will concatenate them into one cell and add separators.
Which is working very nicely for my purpose. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear about it too.
I have shared below link of my sheet.
I tried every possible script to accomplish below task in the end in frustration i wipe out my whole script.
I would like to match text from column A and return or getValue of corresponding B column.
So I can use that getValue from its corresponding B column for further arithmetic operations.
Thank you.
sheet link - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SwYYacz9A9s6ZXrL44KtRN7gqnwXkhu4cDILdUA1iJQ/edit?usp=sharing
Basic steps:
Retrieve your data range
Form an 1D array out of your column A entries, e.g. with map()
Check either the search string is contained in the array - and if yes retrieve its position - e.g. with indexOf()
Retrieve the value with the respective row index in column B
Sample:
function myFunction() {
var matchText = "C";
var values = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet().getDataRange().getValues();
var columnA =values.map(function(e){return e[0]});
var row = columnA.indexOf(matchText);
if (row >= 0){
var Bvalue = values[row][1];
Logger.log(Bvalue);
}
}
I encourage you to take some time to study Apps Script, so you cannot only understand this code and adapt to your needs, but also write your own scripts.
I am trying to write a google app script so I can copy a few columns (C and D) from my main report sheet to a different sheet, based on the value of column M if that's equal to 0.
As shown in the pic below:
So I want to copy the "Name" and "Variety" columns into another sheet where the "Germination %" column is 0.
It can be a time based trigger, that runs after every 2 hours or onEdit also. I was trying to make it a script using OnEdit, as shown below:
function onEdit( e ){
var sheetFrom = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("germination");
var sheetTo = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("watering");
var data = sheetFrom.getDataRange().getValues();
var target = new Array();// this is a new array to collect data
for(n=0;n<data.length;++n){ // iterate in the array, row by row
if (data[n][12]=="0"){ // if condition is true copy the whole row to target
target.push(data[n]);// copy the whole row
}//if
}//for
//Paste to another sheet from first cell onwards
sheetTo.getRange(1,1,target.length,2).setValues(target);
}
But I am getting errors on this "Incorrect range width, was 15 but should be 2 (line 25, file "Code")"
Line 25 is "sheetTo.getRange(1,1,target.length,2).setValues(target)"
Thanks in advance.
In the getRange(1,1,target.length,2) method you're specifying it to select only 2 columns, change it to getRange(1,1,target.length,target[0].length) to select the array length of columns.
Update:
To write only the C and D, change the target push() to:
target.push( [[data[n][2], data[n][3]] )
I am looking for some help on google app scripting. Currently I have a spreadsheet that has 3 sheets. First sheet is data that comes from a google form. Second sheet is an "open" tab and third is a "closed" tab.
When data comes into the spreadsheet from the form it has only the columns that the form has. The "open" sheet has a combination of data from the form (sheet 1) and some additional cells to add more information to by me and not the person submitting the form. Because of this column miss-match I cannot just copy a whole row from sheet 1 to sheet 2. This also needs to be done onEdit trigger. So when an edit trigger fires, I want to store that rows data into memory and then copy column B to the last row of tab 2, column C. Column C > E, column D > B. etc..
How would I store the whole row into memory (an array I presume), and then copy only specific cells, in a specific order into the last row of a different sheet?
Hope that makes sense :-/
As you said, you'll have to use arrays to get data and write it back to another sheet in your selected order.
This is pretty basic manipulation and there are many ways to achieve it.
One way that is very easy to understand is as follow :
get row data in an array
pick up each value one by one and store in another array
write back to the last row +1 on another sheet.
Note that arrays are indexed starting from 0 , rows and columns start from 1 and A so you'll have to do some math !
function copyRow(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var rowIdx = sheet.getActiveRange().getRowIndex();
var rowValues = sheet.getRange(rowIdx,1,1,sheet.getLastRow()).getValues();
Logger.log(rowValues);
var destValues = [];
destValues.push(rowValues[0][0]);// copy data from col A to col A
destValues.push(rowValues[0][2]);// copy data from col C to col B
destValues.push(rowValues[0][1]);// copy data from col B to col C
destValues.push(rowValues[0][3]);// copy data from col D to col D
// continue as you want
var dest = ss.getSheets()[1];//go on chosen sheet (here is the 2cond one)
dest.getRange(dest.getLastRow()+1,1,1,destValues.length).setValues([destValues]);//update destination sheet with selected values in the right order, the brackets are there to build the 2D array needed to write to a range
}
If you want that function to run on edit then just call it onEdit() and you're done !
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/64297866/14427194
function onEdit(e) {
//e.source.toast("Entry");
//console.log(JSON.stringify(e));
const sh=e.range.getSheet();
if(sh.getName()=="Sheet1" && e.range.columnStart==20 && e.value=="TRUE") {
const tsh=e.source.getSheetByName('Sheet2');
const nr=tsh.getLastRow()+1;
sh.getRange(e.range.rowStart,1,1,12).moveTo(tsh.getRange(nr,1,1,12));
sh.getRange(e.range.rowStart,16,1,4).moveTo(tsh.getRange(nr,16,1,4));
sh.deleteRow(e.range.rowStart);
}
}
I have a Spreadsheet, like excel on Google Docs. I am using both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, whichever works. Almost all my columns have dropdown list validation(you know, each cell has a dropdown list to select, I hope I made it clear). I arranged them when I first created the spreadsheet, gave all the columns validation from ranges I created.
My problem is, whenever I add a new row, that row doesn't have any validations, all of them are gone. The old rows still have the validations.
So then, I set the validations every time I add a new row, one by one. This is frustrating. Some people also had the same problem, asked online, but no one answered.
When I copy an empty row with validations and paste it on the new row, it works fine. So, what I am saying is, can you help me write a script for it? Like copying 5 rows when I execute the script?
I am trying to study the scripts but I did nothing nothing so far. I think
var actSc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var range = actSc.getRange("A1:B1");
This all I got from the examples I saw. I mean it. I got nothing.
If this copies the ranges of one cell, then I guess I should do it for all my columns.
But how do I put them in the new row? Is there something like setRange?
I could really use some help. This is driving me crazy and I really don't get this script thing.
What I mean by range is that I have ranges like "STATES" and it includes "NY,LA,CA" etc. This NY,LA,CA fills the dropdown list in the cells of that STATES column. I hope this getRange means this range.
Sorry about my English.
If I understand correctly, you want to script a function that will add new rows to a sheet and maintain the existing validations for your columns. This is certainly possible and not too difficult. One approach could be a "refresh validations" function that updates your entire sheet all at once, in the event that you want to reuse it in other sheets. First, though, it sounds like you could use a brief overview of the object classes you need to know about to do basic Google Apps Scripts:
SpreadsheetApp - Think of this class as the foundation of the Spreadsheet Service. It provides file I/O and functionality that is not tied to specific spreadsheets, per se, such as UI and the creation of Data Validation sets. It's the interface to all of your individual spreadsheet documents.
Spreadsheet - A spreadsheet document file, which can contain multiple Sheets. This is what gets created when you create a new Google Sheets document in Drive. Provides document-level functions, such as the ability to manage ownership, set permissions, access metadata, etc. There's some overlap with the Sheet class, so this one can seem like a bit of a mishmash.
Sheet - An individual sheet is what you normally think of as a spreadsheet: a set of rows and columns. Each Spreadsheet document can contain many, distinct Sheets. The Sheet class lets you modify the overall appearance of the sheet. You can freeze or hide rows, protect ranges of cells from being edited, add/delete rows and columns, etc. You can also get data about the sheet, such as the last row that has content or the maximum range of the whole sheet.
Range - Dropping down another level, we reach the Range object, which represents a certain rectangular area of cells. This can be as small as a single cell or as large as the whole sheet. It does not seem possible, however, for Ranges to represent discontiguous cells. This is where you had some trouble, because you treated the Range object as content that you could copy and paste in your sheet, which is understandable. But a Range isn't the data in the cells it represents. It's just an interface to those cells. If you want to access the data itself, you have to drop down to the bottom level of the hierarchy:
Value - The actual contents of your sheets are normal JavaScript values: strings, integers, Booleans, etc. that you can manipulate with the subset of JavaScript that Google Apps Script supports.
In order to do something with the values in your sheet, you first get the Range object from the Sheet (which you get from the SpreadsheetApp) and then get the values from the Range:
var values = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange("A1:B1").getValues(); // returns [[]]
Note that getValues() returns a multi-dimensional array. As a representation of the values in your sheet, it looks like this:
// row 1 [[column A, column B, column C, column D, ...],
// row 2 [column A, column B, column C, column D, ...],
// row 3 [column A, column B, column C, column D, ...],
// row 4 [column A, column B, column C, column D, ...],
// row 5 [column A, column B, column C, column D, ...], ...]
So if the range A1:B1 is a range of one row and two columns, you can retrieve the values with A1 notation or by specifying the upper left row and column of the range, and the number of rows and number of columns you want to retrieve:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var range = sheet.getRange("A1:B1");
var range = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, 2); // row 1, column 1, 1 row, 2 columns
var values = range.getValues(); // returns [[50, 100]]
If the value in A1 is 50, and the value in B1 is 100, the last function above will return [[50, 100]]. You can access individual cell values directly, too:
var range = sheet.getRange("A1");
var value = range.getValue(); // returns 50
var cell = range.getCell().getValues(); // returns [[50]]
Obviously, you can set the values of ranges, too:
var range = sheet.getRange("A1:B2");
range.setValues([[50, 100]]);
range = sheet.getRange(1, 1); // same as sheet.getCell(1, 1)
range.setValue(50); // the value of A1, or row 1 column 1, is now 50
The next step is to figure out how the Data Validation class works. You create a Data Validation object using the Data Validation Builder, which lets you chain together a series of rules to apply to a range. You then set the range to that Data Validation rule set:
var stateList = ["AK", "AL", "AR", ...];
var rules = SpreadsheetApp.newDataValidation() // create a new Data Validation Builder object and use method chaining to add rules to it
.requireValueInList(stateList, true) // first param is the list of values to require, second is true if you want to display a drop down menu, false otherwise
.setAllowInvalid(false) // true if other values are allowed, false otherwise
.setHelpText("Enter a state") // help text when user hovers over the cell
.build();
range.setDataValidation(rules); // apply the rules to a range
Now you can insert rows and the rules should copy over into them automatically:
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow(); // get the last row that contains any content
sheet.insertRowAfter(lastRow);
Or copy the rules and use them elsewhere:
var cell = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, 1);
var rule = sheet.getDataValidation(); // returns rule
var range = sheet.getRange("A1:B1");
var rules = range.getDataValidations(); // returns [[rules, rules]]
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow(); // or sheet.getMaxRows()
range.setDataValidations(rules);
So you can very easily put these concepts together to write whatever sort of function you need to add rows, build validation rule sets, and add validations to new ranges of cells. You can do most of these things more concisely than I have here, but it sounds like you're looking for a more in-depth explanation. I hope it helps.
var sheetToUpdate = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
sheetToUpdate.insertRowAfter(sheetToUpdate.getLastRow());
var rangeToUpdate = sheetToUpdate.getRange(sheetToUpdate.getLastRow()+1,1,1,sheetToUpdate.getMaxColumns());
sheetToUpdate.getRange(sheetToUpdate.getLastRow(),1,1,sheetToUpdate.getMaxColumns()).copyTo(rangeToUpdate, {formatOnly:true});