I currently have a code that can get the row number of a cell that contains a specific string. Here's an example of the code:
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var values = ss.getRange("B:B").getValues();
var i=j=firstrow=lastrow=0;
for(i=0;i<values.length;i++)
for(j=0;j<values[i].length;j++) {
if(values[i][j]==5100) firstrow=i+1;
else if(values[i][j]=='EOL') lastrow=i-2;
}
I was wondering if it's possible to do something like above, but for columns, that way my script will not fall apart if an user accidentally move a column.
So, what are doing is using .getRange("B:B") to define that you want all rows in column B. Then using getValues() to return all of those rows as a multidimensional array(obviously this will only have one column - so you probably don't need that other for loop).
So instead you can just use .getRange(row, column) (where row and column are integers greater than 1), this way you can go through the spreadsheet one item at a time using getValue(). So you could initially look through the first row to find the column index you are after, and then look down the rows to find the data you require.
Something like this might work for you:
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var valueColumn;
for(i=1;i<ss.getLastColumn();i++) {
if (ss.getRange(1,i).getValue() == "ColumnName") {
valueColumn = i;
break;
}
}
//At this point I assume that we have a value in valueColumn, if not this won't work.
var values = ss.getRange(2, valueColumn, ss.getLastRow()).getValues();
var i=firstrow=lastrow=0;
for(i=0;i<values.length;i++) {
if(values[i][0]==5100) firstrow=i+1;
else if(values[i][0]=='EOL') lastrow=i-2;
}
One thing to keep in mind is that arrays are 0 based where as getRange(row,column[,rows]) is 1 based.
My spreadsheet is only small, so speed impacts of doing one call and getting all data is minimal, but if you are actually using a large sheet you might find one method works faster than another.
Related
I'm relatively new to this, I've written a function in Google Apps Script, getting data from an API.
The problem is that it's inserted into one single cell, instead of multiple rows and columns.
Can anybody help?
Tried googling examples
What I do
function spotpriser() {
var priser = 'api.energidataservice.dk/dataset/Elspotprices' + '?start=2022-07-01&end=2022-07-02' + '&sort=HourDK';
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(priser);
Logger.log(response);
var fact = response.getContentText();
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange(1,1).setValue([fact]);
}
if you do getRange(1,1).setValue() it is normal that all the data get inserted into one cell only: the one define by the range (aka A1).
Instead what you probably want to do is to get a larger range, corresponding the dimensions of your retrieved data.
For example, let's say you retrieved 3 lines of data, and one line of data is supposed to be displayed on 2 columns.
You first need to create an array of size 5 (nb of rows) where each element will also be an array, of size 2 (nb of cols for each element).
let myArray = [
[elt1_col1_value, elt1_col2_value],
[elt2_col1_value, elt2_col2_value],
[elt3_col1_value, elt3_col2_value]
]
Then you can insert this array into the right number of cells, i.e defining the right range
sheet.getRange(1,1,myArray.length,myArray[0].length).setValues(myArray); // start at row 1, col 1, insert the right number of rows and cols based on the array
Note that I use setValues (with the s) to indicate that it writes in several cells.
Also make sure there is at least one element in myArray otherwise myArray[0].length will throw an error.
Documentation for getRange.
I am trying to copy a range from sheet 'Full' and paste the values only to a new sheet, 'Dump'. While the macro below does its action once, I am regenerating the original data range (Full), so I want to copy that new set and append to the same output page, indexed down to a blank row and keeping the first pasted data. Also then to do this 100 times.
The recoded macro is below, and I need to understand the script to add in to;
repeat the copy/paste function 100 times, and also
offset the paste range by a set number of rows.
Sorry, genuine newbie at editing google sheet macros. The Excel macro I use doesn't translate over.
Appreciate any answers you have.
function xmacro() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
spreadsheet.getRange('A1').activate();
spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Full'), true);
spreadsheet.setActiveSheet(spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Dump'), true);
spreadsheet.getRange('Full!BK3:BT34').copyTo(spreadsheet.getActiveRange(), SpreadsheetApp.CopyPasteType.PASTE_VALUES, false);```
};
Your macro is just an automatically generated app script. You can extend its functionality by building off that with some more code. First I'll explain some of the basic concepts, if you know this, then just skip down to the code.
Sheets Concepts
Here are some basic concepts that took me forever to figure out because most of the documentation assumes you are already proficient at Javascript.
A range is a 2 dimensional array that has one array for each row, and the contents of that array are the columns:
someRange = [
[row1Col1, row1Col2, row1Col3, row1Col4],
[row2Col1, row2Col2, row2Col3, row2Col4],
[row3Col1, row3Col2, row3Col3, row3Col4]
]
To access a specific value you need to reference the row array, and then the index of the column you want.
Think about it like hotel room numbers. The first part of the number is the floor,
and the second part is the specific room on that floor.
You access arrays by calling the array name, then square brackets with the index number of the element you want.
Arrays are indexed starting at 0, so to get row 1 you would use:
someRange[0] would return the inner array [row1Col1, row1Col2, row1Col3].
But that doesn't give you a specific cell values - so you would use a second set of brackets to access the column in that row:
someRange[0][1] = 'row1Col2'
Arrays also have built in information, so you can find the length of an array by using Array.length no parenthesis.
Since the rows are in the outer array, you can get the number of rows by seeing how many inner arrays there are.
someRange.length = 3 There are 3 row arrays in the someRange array.
You can do the same with columns, since the number of columns is equal to the number of elements in an array. To get the number of elements in the first row you would use:
someRange[0].length - which would be 4
And since a range has the same number of columns for each row, you can pick any row
to get the number of columns (generally, there are always exceptions)
The Code
The first function will create a custom menu item to run the code.
// create a new menu item for your custom function
function onOpen(){
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().createMenu()
.addItem('100 Copies', 'lotsOfCopies')
.addToUi();
}
function lotsOfCopies() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var copySheet = ss.getSheetByName('yourCopySheetName');
var pasteSheet = ss.getSheetByName('yourPasteSheetName');
// the range you wish to copy, change to fit your needs
var copyRange = copySheet.getRange('A1:B7');
var copyValues = copyRange.getValues();
var copyRows = copyValues.length;
var copyCols = copyValues[0].length;
// define the first row to be pasted into
var pasteRow = 1;
// define the left side column of the range to be pasted into
var pasteCol = 1
// build a loop that does the same thing 100 times,
// and each time offsets the paste range by the number of rows in the copy range
for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
// for every iteration after the first,
// add the number of rows in the copy range to the variable 'row'
// example if there are 10 rows in the copy range then
// iteration 1 row = 1 Iterartion 2 row = 11, Iteration 3 row = 21
if (i > 0) {
pasteRow = +pasteRow + +copyRows
}
// build the range to paste into - it starts on pasteRow and paste col,
// and is as many rows as the copied range, and as many columns as the copied range
let pasteRange = pasteSheet.getRange(pasteRow, pasteCol, copyRows, copyCols);
// put the values from copyValues into the pasteRange
pasteRange.setValues(copyValues);
}
}
function xmacro() {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const ssh = ss.getSheetByName('Full')
const dsh = ss.getSheetByName('Dump')
ssh.getRange('BK3:BT34').copyTo(dsh.getRange('A1'), SpreadsheetApp.CopyPasteType.PASTE_VALUES, false);
}
Summary:
I need to get a range of values from one sheet, then set them into the first empty row of the second sheet. If that row is full, then append to the next.
I can get the script to set values into their corresponding cells, but not append; and I've been able to append a single cell value into an empty cell, but not the entire range. What am I not comprehending?
The goal:
Basically I'm taking user input (lets say race data) and saving it to another sheet for referencing later. (possibly to average race times by weight and height or something)
Research: I'm a bit new to this, but I've also done a good bit of research, such as ben collins free introductory course and other questions from here (just to name a couple):
[Get Range] SpreadsheetApp: getRange and setValues
[Copy Range] How to copy row ranges in Google docs?
Code
Grab my data:
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues(); //grab data
Sets the range where I want it, but doesn't append:
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1) //gets range and sets the value
So I've tried:
function r () {sheet2.getRange(newRow,1,1,data1.length).setValues(data1)};
return (r);
and even added:
sheet2.appendRow(data1);
(newRow is essentially getLastRow)
The above gives me a row of set values, then appends this in the following row: [Ljava.lang.Object;#f2a6014
-which in my research I've found what it is, but I don't understand why it happens.
I know I'm overlooking something or arranging something incorrectly but I cant figure out what it is that I'm not understanding.
Using your first two example I wrote this script and it works:
function copydata() {
const ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const sheet1=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
const sheet2=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet2');
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues();
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1);
}
And this works also assuming that you realize that data1 is only a single row but it's still a two dimensional array so you have to use data1[0] to extract the single dimensional array from the two dimensional array
function copydatatofrom() {
const ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const sheet1=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet1');
const sheet2=ss.getSheetByName('Sheet2');
const data1 = sheet1.getRange("A2:F2").getValues();
sheet2.getRange("A2:F2").setValues(data1);
sheet2.appendRow(data1[0]);
}
I have two ranges of equal size on different sheets in the same spreadsheet. I am trying to find a row (based off of user input) in the first sheet and then use that index to modify a table in the second sheet that counts how many times that certain index has been used before (to make a nice looking pie chart).
This code runs but will not produce results on the second sheet. I've gone through the debugging process and my best guess is that for some reason, my for in loop is not running through. Attached is my code that takes in the beforementioned index and attempts to perform the second half of my goal.
function acceptToEncounterChart(ghostrow) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[1]);
ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Average Encounter Chart");
var range = sheet.getRange("B3:B14")
for(var i in range) {
if(ghostrow == i) {
var before = range[i][0].getValue()
range[i][0].setValue(before + 1);
}
}
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[0]);
};
Explanation:
I am not entirely sure what is your goal.
However, here is some fixes / improvements starting from the beginning:
You define 2 times the same variable ss with exactly the same value.
You don't need to set the active sheet, if your goal is to just get the sheet, therefore this line is redundant:
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[1]);
Variable range is not an array but a range object. You can't index it and therefore you can't also use a for loop to iterate over a single object. For the same exact reason, the code inside the if statement is wrong, you can't index range. But you don't see any errors because the if statement evaluates to false.
In JavaScript and in many other programming languages, array indexes start from 0. Since your range starts from cell B3 or row 3, you need to use i+3 to match the data with the range.
For the same reason as the previous point, ghostrow is an index, not a row. The if statement compares an array index i with ghostrow, so ghostrow should not be confused with the actual sheet row. For example, if you choose ghostrow=5 then the current script will increment the value of the cell B8 (remember i+3) by 1.
Solution:
Here is a workable code snippet:
function acceptToEncounterChart(ghostrow) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Average Encounter Chart");
var data = sheet.getRange("B3:B14").getValues().flat();
data.forEach((v,i)=>{
if(ghostrow == i){
sheet.getRange(i+3,2).setValue(v+1)
}
});
ss.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[0]);
}
Related:
Please explore the official google apps script documentation.
I don't have much experience using Javascript but I'm developing a simple code to filter some information relevant to a professor I'm helping. I am searching the row number of a certain amount of data using a for and then I'm using an array to store all the rows that contain those words. Since I'm using Appscript, I only need to relocate a certain amount of data from the row I'm returning to a final row I've already know. My code is as follows:
if(cell === "Average")
{
index++;
initialcoords[index] = n; // n is the iteration variable in the for
}
I've tested the contents of the array and they are just fine, so I'm storing correctly the rows. The problem is that I'm using a different method to paste the data in a different sheet in Google Spreadhsheets. My code to do so is the following:
function pasteInfo()
{
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var source = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet 1");
var destination = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet 2");
var range = source.getRange(initialcoords[1], 1, 8, 3);
range.copyValuesToRange(destination, 4, 6, 4, 6);
}
My probelm is the getRange() since it prints an error like this:
can't find method getRange((class),number,number,number).
I believe that even if n is declared as an integer, the values that I'm returning are of a different type incompatible with the getRange() method. Could anyone help me to confirm this and to help me convert it to integer? I would really appreciate your help.
You first need to define the Sheet you want to get the data from since a Spreadsheet can have multiple Sheets.
You need to ensure you have appropriate default values defined before using the parameters, otherwise the interpreter will start making guess.
Provide defaults if parameters are empty:
function fillLine(row, column, length, bgcolor)
{
row = row || 0;
column = column || 0;
length = length || 1;
bgcolor = bgcolor || "red";
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange(1+row, 1+column, 1, length).setBackground(bgcolor)
}
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