With Google Apps Script, is it possible to remove empty (unused) Gmail labels?
Based on the answers above, here is a Google Apps Script to delete empty labels (with nested labels check). The Javascript is rough, but it works! The 'testing' variable determines if it just logs or actually deletes the labels.
You can debug, run Google Apps Scripts at https://script.google.com
//
// Set to 'false' if you want to actually delete labels
// otherwise it will log them but not delete them.
//
var testing = true;
//
// Deletes labels with no email threads
//
function deleteEmptyLabels() {
Logger.log("Starting label cleanup");
var allLabels = GmailApp.getUserLabels();
var emptyLabels = allLabels.filter(function(label){ return isTreeEmpty(label, allLabels); } );
for (var i = 0; i < emptyLabels.length; i++){
Logger.log('Deleting empty label ' + emptyLabels[i].getName());
if (!testing){
emptyLabels[i].deleteLabel();
}
}
Logger.log("Finished label cleanup");
}
//
// Finds labels below a parent
//
function getNestedLabels(parent, allLabels) {
var name = parent.getName() + '/';
return allLabels.filter(function(label) {
return label.getName().slice(0, name.length) == name;
});
}
//
// Tests a single label for 'emptiness'
//
function isLabelEmpty(label){
return label.getThreads(0, 1) == 0;
}
//
// Tests a label, and nested labels for 'emptiness'
//
function isTreeEmpty(label, allLabels){
if (!isLabelEmpty(label))
return false;
var nested = getNestedLabels(label, allLabels);
for(var j = 0; j < nested.length; j++){
if (!isTreeEmpty(nested[j], allLabels))
return false;
}
return true;
}
Certainly, first use GmailApp.getUserLabels() to retrieve all the labels, then loop over them and use getThreads() to determine if a given label is empty, and finally use deleteLabel() to remove empty ones.
See:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/gmail-app
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/gmail-label
GmailApp.getUserLabels(), getThreads() and deleteLabel() is the way to go, but take care not to delete empty labels if one of its sub-labels is not!
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I made a formula to extract some Wikipedia data in Google Seets which works fine. Here is the formula:
=regexreplace(join("",flatten(IMPORTXML(D2,".//p[preceding-sibling::h2[1][contains(., 'Geography')]]"))),"\[[^\]]+\]","")&char(10)&char(10)&iferror(regexreplace(join("",flatten(IMPORTXML(D2,".//p[preceding-sibling::h2[1][contains(., 'Education')]]"))),"\[[^\]]+\]",""))
Where D2 is a URL like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville,_Alabama
This extracts some Geography and Education data from the Wikipedia page. Trouble is that importxml only runs a few times before it dies due to quota.
So I thought maybe better to use Apps Script where there are much higher limits on fetching and parsing. I could not see a good way however of using Xpath in Apps Script. Older posts on the web discuss using a deprecated service called Xml but it seems to no longer work. There is a Service called XmlService which looks like it may do the job but you can't just plug in an Xpath. It looks like a lot of sweating to get to the result. Any solutions out there where you can just plug in Xpath?
Here is an alternative solution I actually do in a case like this.
I have used XmlService but only for parsing the content, not for using Xpath. This makes use of the element tags and so far pretty consistent on my tests. Although, it might need tweaks when certain tags are in the result and you might have to include them into the exclusion condition.
Tested the code below in both links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville,_Alabama#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama#Education
My test shows that the formula above used did not return the proper output from the 2nd link while the code does. (Maybe because it was too long)
Code:
function getGeoAndEdu(path) {
var data = UrlFetchApp.fetch(path).getContentText();
// wikipedia is divided into sections, if output is cut, increase the number
var regex = /.{1,100000}/g;
var results = [];
// flag to determine if matches should be added
var foundFlag = false;
do {
m = regex.exec(data);
if (foundFlag) {
// if another header is found during generation of data, stop appending the matches
if (matchTag(m[0], "<h2>"))
foundFlag = false;
// exclude tables, sub-headers and divs containing image description
else if(matchTag(m[0], "<div") || matchTag(m[0], "<h3") ||
matchTag(m[0], "<td") || matchTag(m[0], "<th"))
continue;
else
results.push(m[0]);
}
// start capturing if either IDs are found
if (m != null && (matchTag(m[0], "id=\"Geography\"") ||
matchTag(m[0], "id=\"Education\""))) {
foundFlag = true;
}
} while (m);
var output = results.map(function (str) {
// clean tags for XmlService
str = str.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '').trim();
decode = XmlService.parse('<d>' + str + '</d>')
// convert html entity codes (e.g. ) to text
return decode.getRootElement().getText();
// filter blank results due to cleaning and empty sections
// separate data and remove citations before returning output
}).filter(result => result.trim().length > 1).join("\n").replace(/\[\d+\]/g, '');
return output;
}
// check if tag is found in string
function matchTag(string, tag) {
var regex = RegExp(tag);
return string.match(regex) && string.match(regex)[0] == tag;
}
Output:
Difference:
Formula ending output
Script ending output
Education ending in wikipedia
Note:
You still have quota when using UrlFetchApp but should be better than IMPORTXML's limit depending on the type of your account.
Reference:
Apps Script Quotas
Sorry I got very busy this week so I didn't reply. I took a look at your answer which seems to work fine, but it was quite code heavy. I wanted something I would understand so I coded my own solution. not that mine is any simpler. It's just my own code so it's easier for me to follow:
function getTextBetweenTags(html, paramatersInFirstTag, paramatersInLastTag) { //finds text values between 2 tags and removes internal tags to leave plain text.
//eg getTextBetweenTags(html,[['class="mw-headline"'],['id="Geography"']],[['class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-made-collapsible"']])
// **Note: you may want to replace &#number; with ascII number
var openingTagPos = null;
var closingTagPos = null;
var previousChar = '';
var readingTag = false;
var newTag = '';
var tagEnd = false;
var regexFirstTagParams = [];
var regexLastTagParams = [];
//prepare regexes to test for parameters in opening and closing tags. put regexes in arrays so each condition can be tested separately
for (var i in paramatersInFirstTag) {
regexFirstTagParams.push(new RegExp(escapeRegex(paramatersInFirstTag[i][0])))
}
for (var i in paramatersInLastTag) {
regexLastTagParams.push(new RegExp(escapeRegex(paramatersInLastTag[i][0])))
}
var startTagIndex = null;
var endTagIndex = null;
var matches = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < html.length - 1; i++) {
var nextChar = html.substr(i, 1);
if (nextChar == '<' && previousChar != '\\') {
readingTag = true;
}
if (nextChar == '>' && previousChar != '\\') { //if end of tag found, check tag matches start or end tag
readingTag = false;
newTag += nextChar;
//test for firstTag
if (startTagIndex == null) {
var alltestsPass = true;
for (var j in regexFirstTagParams) {
if (!regexFirstTagParams[j].test(newTag)) alltestsPass = false;
}
if (alltestsPass) {
startTagIndex = i + 1;
//console.log('Start Tag',startTagIndex)
matches++;
}
}
//test for lastTag
else if (startTagIndex != null) {
var alltestsPass = true;
for (var j in regexLastTagParams) {
if (!regexLastTagParams[j].test(newTag)) alltestsPass = false;
}
if (alltestsPass) {
endTagIndex = i + 1;
matches++;
}
}
if(startTagIndex && endTagIndex) break;
newTag = '';
}
if (readingTag) newTag += nextChar;
previousChar = nextChar;
}
if (matches < 2) return 'No matches';
else return html.substring(startTagIndex, endTagIndex).replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '');
}
function escapeRegex(string) {
if (string == null) return string;
return string.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&');
}
My function requires an array of attributes for the start tag and an array of attributes for the end tag. It gets any text in between and removes any tags found inbetween. One issue I also noticed was there were often special characters (eg ) so they need to be replaced. I did that outside the scope of the function above.
The function could be easily improved to check the tag type (eg h2), but it wasn't necessary for the wikipedia case.
Here is a function where I called the above function. the html variable is just the result of UrlFetchApp.fetch('some wikipedia city url').getContextText();
function getWikiTexts(html) {
var geography = getTextBetweenTags(html, [['class="mw-headline"'], ['id="Geography']], [['class="mw-headline"']]);
var economy = getTextBetweenTags(html, 'span', [['class="mw-headline"'], ['id="Economy']], 'span', [['class="mw-headline"']])
var education = getTextBetweenTags(html, 'span', [['class="mw-headline"'], ['id="Education']], 'span', [['class="mw-headline"']])
var returnString = '';
if (geography != 'No matches' && !/Wikipedia/.test(geography)) returnString += geography + '\n';
if (economy != 'No matches' && !/Wikipedia/.test(economy)) returnString += economy + '\n';
if (education != 'No matches' && !/Wikipedia/.test(education)) returnString += education + '\n';
return returnString
}
Thanks for posting your answer.
I'm trying to create a google apps script that will format certain parts of a paragraph. For example, text that is underlined will become bolded/italicized as well.
One docs add-on I have tried has a similar feature: https://imgur.com/a/5Cw6Irn (this is exactly what I'm trying to achieve)
How can I write a function that will select a certain type of text and format it?
**I managed to write a script that iterates through every single letter in a paragraph and checks if it's underlined, but it becomes extremely slow as the paragraph gets longer, so I'm looking for a faster solution.
function textUnderline() {
var selectedText = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();
if(selectedText) {
var elements = selectedText.getRangeElements();
for (var index = 0; index < elements.length; index++) {
var element = elements[index];
if(element.getElement().editAsText) {
var text = element.getElement().editAsText();
var textLength = text.getText().length;
//For every single character, check if it's underlined and then format it
for (var i = 0; i < textLength; i++) {
if(text.isUnderline(i)) {
text.setBold(i, i, true);
text.setBackgroundColor(i,i,'#ffff00');
} else {
text.setFontSize(i, i, 8);
}
}
}
}
}
}
Use getTextAttributeIndices:
There is no need to check each character in the selection. You can use getTextAttributeIndices() to get the indices in which the text formatting changes. This method:
Retrieves the set of text indices that correspond to the start of distinct text formatting runs.
You just need to iterate through these indices (that is, check the indices in which text formatting changes), which are a small fraction of all character indices. This will greatly increase efficiency.
Code sample:
function textUnderline() {
var selectedText = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();
if(selectedText) {
var elements = selectedText.getRangeElements();
for (var index = 0; index < elements.length; index++) {
var element = elements[index];
if(element.getElement().editAsText) {
var text = element.getElement().editAsText();
var textRunIndices = text.getTextAttributeIndices();
var textLength = text.getText().length;
for (let i = 0; i < textRunIndices.length; i++) {
const startOffset = textRunIndices[i];
const endOffset = i + 1 < textRunIndices.length ? textRunIndices[i + 1] - 1 : textLength - 1;
if (text.isUnderline(textRunIndices[i])) {
text.setBold(startOffset, endOffset, true);
text.setBackgroundColor(startOffset, endOffset,'#ffff00');
} else {
text.setFontSize(startOffset, endOffset, 8);
}
}
}
}
}
}
Reference:
getTextAttributeIndices()
Based on the example shown in the animated gif, it seems your procedure needs to
handle a selection
set properties if the selected region is of some format (e.g. underlined)
set properties if the selected region is NOT of some format (e.g. not underlined)
finish as fast as possible
and your example code achieves all these goals expect the last one.
The problem is that you are calling the text.set...() functions at each index position. Each call is synchronous and blocks the code until the document is updated, thus your run time grows linearly with each character in the selection.
My suggestion is to build up a collection of subranges from the selection range and then for each subrange use text.set...(subrange.start, subrange.end) to apply the formatting. Now the run time will be dependent on chunks of characters, rather than single characters. i.e., you will only update when the formatting switches back and forth from, in your example, underlined to not underlined.
Here is some example code that implements this subrange idea. I separated the specific predicate function (text.isUnderline) and specific formatting effects into their own functions so as to separate the general idea from the specific implementation.
// run this function with selection
function transformUnderlinedToBoldAndYellow() {
transformSelection("isUnderline", boldYellowOrSmall);
}
function transformSelection(stylePredicateKey, stylingFunction) {
const selectedText = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getSelection();
if (!selectedText) return;
const getStyledSubRanges = makeStyledSubRangeReducer(stylePredicateKey);
selectedText.getRangeElements()
.reduce(getStyledSubRanges, [])
.forEach(stylingFunction);
}
function makeStyledSubRangeReducer(stylePredicateKey) {
return function(ranges, rangeElement) {
const {text, start, end} = unwrapRangeElement(rangeElement);
if (start >= end) return ranges; // filter out empty selections
const range = {
text, start, end,
styled: [], notStyled: [] // we will extend our range with subranges
};
const getKey = (isStyled) => isStyled ? "styled" : "notStyled";
let currentKey = getKey(text[stylePredicateKey](start));
range[currentKey].unshift({start: start});
for (let index = start + 1; index <= end; ++index) {
const isStyled = text[stylePredicateKey](index);
if (getKey(isStyled) !== currentKey) { // we are switching styles
range[currentKey][0].end = index - 1; // note end of this style
currentKey = getKey(isStyled);
range[currentKey].unshift({start: index}); // start new style range
}
}
ranges.push(range);
return ranges;
}
}
// a helper function to unwrap a range selection, deals with isPartial,
// maps RangeElement => {text, start, end}
function unwrapRangeElement(rangeElement) {
const isPartial = rangeElement.isPartial();
const text = rangeElement.getElement().asText();
return {
text: text,
start: isPartial
? rangeElement.getStartOffset()
: 0,
end: isPartial
? rangeElement.getEndOffsetInclusive()
: text.getText().length - 1
};
}
// apply specific formatting to satisfy the example
function boldYellowOrSmall(range) {
const {text, start, end, styled, notStyled} = range;
styled.forEach(function setTextBoldAndYellow(range) {
text.setBold(range.start, range.end || end, true);
text.setBackgroundColor(range.start, range.end || end, '#ffff00');
});
notStyled.forEach(function setTextSmall(range) {
text.setFontSize(range.start, range.end || end, 8);
});
}
I have a filter that adds the "unprocessed" label on all incoming emails.
Then a Google Script searches every minute for any email threads that have the "unprocessed" label, processes the messages, and conditionally apply a label to the corresponding thread.
I don't know what I have done wrong, but only SOME of the processed threads get the label. And it works randomly... For example only 3 out of 6 threads got the label, or 1 out of 3.
I have to re-apply the "unprocessed" label, and just run the script again to fix them.
function processGmail() {
var startTime = new Date().getTime();
var mailerRegex = /X-Mailer:(.*)/g;
var scannerLabel = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("Scanner");
var unprocessedLabel = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("unprocessed");
var countMessages = 0;
GmailApp.search("label:unprocessed").forEach(
function(emailThread) {
emailThread.getMessages().forEach(
function(message) {
var raw = message.getRawContent();
var result;
var doReturn = false;
while((matches = mailerRegex.exec(raw)) !== null) {
if (matches.some(function(match){return match.indexOf('Canon MFP') >= 0;})) {
emailThread.addLabel(scannerLabel);
emailThread.moveToArchive();
doReturn = true;
break;
}
}
emailThread.removeLabel(unprocessedLabel);
++countMessages;
if (doReturn) {
return;
}
}
);
}
);
var endTime = new Date().getTime();
Logger.log("Processed " + countMessages + " in " + (endTime-startTime) + "ms.");
}
Turns out the bug was Javascript related.
I had forgotten that the regex.exec needs to be looped until a null is returned, only then it will start a-new for a new input.
The fix was removing break :)
Update #2: Okay, I'm pretty sure my error in update #1 was because of indexing out of bounds over the array (I'm still not used to JS indexing at 0). But here is the new problem... if I write out the different combinations of the loop manually, setting the page index to 1 in moveItem() like so:
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[0][0], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[0][1], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[0][2], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[1][0], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[1][1], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[1][2], 1);
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[2][0], 1);
...
...I don't get any errors but the items end up on different pages! What is going on?
Update #1:: Using Sandy Good's answer as well as a script I found at this WordPress blog, I have managed to get closer to what I needed. I believe Sandy Good misinterpreted what I wanted to do because I wasn't specific enough in my question.
I would like to:
Get all items from a page (section header, images, question etc)
Put them into an array
Do this for all pages, adding these arrays to an array (i.e: [[all items from page 1][all items from page 2][all items from page 3]...])
Shuffle the elements of this array
Repopulate a new form with each element of this array. In this way, page order will be randomized.
My JavaScript skills are poor (this is the first time I've used it). There is a step that produces null entries and I don't know why... I had to remove them manually. I am not able to complete step 5 as I get the following error:
Cannot convert Item,Item,Item to (class).
"Item,Item,Item" is the array element containing all the items from a particular page. So it seems that I can't add three items to a page at a time? Or is something else going on here?
Here is my code:
function shuffleForms() {
var itemsArray,shuffleQuestionsInNewForm,fncGetQuestionID,
newFormFile,newForm,newID,shuffle, sections;
// Copy template form by ID, set a new name
newFormFile = DriveApp.getFileById('1prfcl-RhaD4gn0b2oP4sbcKaRcZT5XoCAQCbLm1PR7I')
.makeCopy();
newFormFile.setName('AAAAA_Shuffled_Form');
// Get ID of new form and open it
newID = newFormFile.getId();
newForm = FormApp.openById(newID);
// Initialize array to put IDs in
itemsArray = [];
function getPageItems(thisPageNum) {
Logger.log("Getting items for page number: " + thisPageNum );
var thisPageItems = []; // Used for result
var thisPageBreakIndex = getPageItem(thisPageNum).getIndex();
Logger.log( "This is index num : " + thisPageBreakIndex );
// Get all items from page
var allItems = newForm.getItems();
thisPageItems.push(allItems[thisPageBreakIndex]);
Logger.log( "Added pagebreak item: " + allItems[thisPageBreakIndex].getIndex() );
for( var i = thisPageBreakIndex+1; ( i < allItems.length ) && ( allItems[i].getType() != FormApp.ItemType.PAGE_BREAK ); ++i ) {
thisPageItems.push(allItems[i]);
Logger.log( "Added non-pagebreak item: " + allItems[i].getIndex() );
}
return thisPageItems;
}
function shuffle(array) {
var currentIndex = array.length, temporaryValue, randomIndex;
Logger.log('shuffle ran')
// While there remain elements to shuffle...
while (0 !== currentIndex) {
// Pick a remaining element...
randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * currentIndex);
currentIndex -= 1;
// And swap it with the current element.
temporaryValue = array[currentIndex];
array[currentIndex] = array[randomIndex];
array[randomIndex] = temporaryValue;
}
return array;
}
function shuffleAndMove() {
// Get page items for all pages into an array
for(i = 2; i <= 5; i++) {
itemsArray[i] = getPageItems(i);
}
// Removes null values from array
itemsArray = itemsArray.filter(function(x){return x});
// Shuffle page items
itemsArray = shuffle(itemsArray);
// Move page items to the new form
for(i = 2; i <= 5; ++i) {
newForm.moveItem(itemsArray[i], i);
}
}
shuffleAndMove();
}
Original post: I have used Google forms to create a questionnaire. For my purposes, each question needs to be on a separate page but I need the pages to be randomized. A quick Google search shows this feature has not been added yet.
I see that the Form class in the Google apps script has a number of methods that alter/give access to various properties of Google Forms. Since I do not know Javascript and am not too familiar with Google apps/API I would like to know if what I am trying to do is even possible before diving in and figuring it all out.
If it is possible, I would appreciate any insight on what methods would be relevant for this task just to give me some direction to get started.
Based on comments from Sandy Good and two SE questions found here and here, this is the code I have so far:
// Script to shuffle question in a Google Form when the questions are in separate sections
function shuffleFormSections() {
getQuestionID();
createNewShuffledForm();
}
// Get question IDs
function getQuestionID() {
var form = FormApp.getActiveForm();
var items = form.getItems();
arrayID = [];
for (var i in items) {
arrayID[i] = items[i].getId();
}
// Logger.log(arrayID);
return(arrayID);
}
// Shuffle function
function shuffle(a) {
var j, x, i;
for (i = a.length; i; i--) {
j = Math.floor(Math.random() * i);
x = a[i - 1];
a[i - 1] = a[j];
a[j] = x;
}
}
// Shuffle IDs and create new form with new question order
function createNewShuffledForm() {
shuffle(arrayID);
// Logger.log(arrayID);
var newForm = FormApp.create('Shuffled Form');
for (var i in arrayID) {
arrayID[i].getItemsbyId();
}
}
Try this. There's a few "constants" to be set at the top of the function, check the comments. Form file copying and opening borrowed from Sandy Good's answer, thanks!
// This is the function to run, all the others here are helper functions
// You'll need to set your source file id and your destination file name in the
// constants at the top of this function here.
// It appears that the "Title" page does not count as a page, so you don't need
// to include it in the PAGES_AT_BEGINNING_TO_NOT_SHUFFLE count.
function shuffleFormPages() {
// UPDATE THESE CONSTANTS AS NEEDED
var PAGES_AT_BEGINNING_TO_NOT_SHUFFLE = 2; // preserve X intro pages; shuffle everything after page X
var SOURCE_FILE_ID = 'YOUR_SOURCE_FILE_ID_HERE';
var DESTINATION_FILE_NAME = 'YOUR_DESTINATION_FILE_NAME_HERE';
// Copy template form by ID, set a new name
var newFormFile = DriveApp.getFileById(SOURCE_FILE_ID).makeCopy();
newFormFile.setName(DESTINATION_FILE_NAME);
// Open the duplicated form file as a form
var newForm = FormApp.openById(newFormFile.getId());
var pages = extractPages(newForm);
shuffleEndOfPages(pages, PAGES_AT_BEGINNING_TO_NOT_SHUFFLE);
var shuffledFormItems = flatten(pages);
setFormItems(newForm, shuffledFormItems);
}
// Builds an array of "page" arrays. Each page array starts with a page break
// and continues until the next page break.
function extractPages(form) {
var formItems = form.getItems();
var currentPage = [];
var allPages = [];
formItems.forEach(function(item) {
if (item.getType() == FormApp.ItemType.PAGE_BREAK && currentPage.length > 0) {
// found a page break (and it isn't the first one)
allPages.push(currentPage); // push what we've built for this page onto the output array
currentPage = [item]; // reset the current page to just this most recent item
} else {
currentPage.push(item);
}
});
// We've got the last page dangling, so add it
allPages.push(currentPage);
return allPages;
};
// startIndex is the array index to start shuffling from. E.g. to start
// shuffling on page 5, startIndex should be 4. startIndex could also be thought
// of as the number of pages to keep unshuffled.
// This function has no return value, it just mutates pages
function shuffleEndOfPages(pages, startIndex) {
var currentIndex = pages.length;
// While there remain elements to shuffle...
while (currentIndex > startIndex) {
// Pick an element between startIndex and currentIndex (inclusive)
var randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * (currentIndex - startIndex)) + startIndex;
currentIndex -= 1;
// And swap it with the current element.
var temporaryValue = pages[currentIndex];
pages[currentIndex] = pages[randomIndex];
pages[randomIndex] = temporaryValue;
}
};
// Sourced from elsewhere on SO:
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/15030117/4280232
function flatten(array) {
return array.reduce(
function (flattenedArray, toFlatten) {
return flattenedArray.concat(Array.isArray(toFlatten) ? flatten(toFlatten) : toFlatten);
},
[]
);
};
// No safety checks around items being the same as the form length or whatever.
// This mutates form.
function setFormItems(form, items) {
items.forEach(function(item, index) {
form.moveItem(item, index);
});
};
I tested this code. It created a new Form, and then shuffled the questions in the new Form. It excludes page breaks, images and section headers. You need to provide a source file ID for the original template Form. This function has 3 inner sub-functions. The inner functions are at the top, and they are called at the bottom of the outer function. The arrayOfIDs variable does not need to be returned or passed to another function because it is available in the outer scope.
function shuffleFormSections() {
var arrayOfIDs,shuffleQuestionsInNewForm,fncGetQuestionID,
newFormFile,newForm,newID,items,shuffle;
newFormFile = DriveApp.getFileById('Put the source file ID here')
.makeCopy();
newFormFile.setName('AAAAA_Shuffled_Form');
newID = newFormFile.getId();
newForm = FormApp.openById(newID);
arrayOfIDs = [];
fncGetQuestionID = function() {
var i,L,thisID,thisItem,thisType;
items = newForm.getItems();
L = items.length;
for (i=0;i<L;i++) {
thisItem = items[i];
thisType = thisItem.getType();
if (thisType === FormApp.ItemType.PAGE_BREAK ||
thisType === FormApp.ItemType.SECTION_HEADER ||
thisType === FormApp.ItemType.IMAGE) {
continue;
}
thisID = thisItem.getId();
arrayOfIDs.push(thisID);
}
Logger.log('arrayOfIDs: ' + arrayOfIDs);
//the array arrayOfIDs does not need to be returned since it is available
//in the outermost scope
}// End of fncGetQuestionID function
shuffle = function() {// Shuffle function
var j, x, i;
Logger.log('shuffle ran')
for (i = arrayOfIDs.length; i; i--) {
j = Math.floor(Math.random() * i);
Logger.log('j: ' + j)
x = arrayOfIDs[i - 1];
Logger.log('x: ' + x)
arrayOfIDs[i - 1] = arrayOfIDs[j];
arrayOfIDs[j] = x;
}
Logger.log('arrayOfIDs: ' + arrayOfIDs)
}
shuffleQuestionsInNewForm = function() {
var i,L,thisID,thisItem,thisQuestion,questionType;
L = arrayOfIDs.length;
for (i=0;i<L;i++) {
thisID = arrayOfIDs[i];
Logger.log('thisID: ' + thisID)
thisItem = newForm.getItemById(thisID);
newForm.moveItem(thisItem, i)
}
}
fncGetQuestionID();//Get all the question ID's and put them into an array
shuffle();
shuffleQuestionsInNewForm();
}
how to compare two arraycollection
collectionArray1 = ({first: 'Dave', last: 'Matthews'},...........n values
collectionArray = ({first: 'Dave', last: 'Matthews'},...........n values
how to compare..if equal just alert nochange if not alert chaged
If you just want to know if they are different from each other, meaning by length, order or individual items, you can do the following, which first checks to see if the lengths are different, then checks to see if the individual elements are different. This isn't terribly reusable, it's left as an exercise for the reader to split this apart into cleaner chunks :)
public function foo(coll1:ArrayCollection, coll2:ArrayCollection):void {
if (coll1.length == coll2.length) {
for (var i:int = 0; i < coll1.length; i++) {
if (coll1[i].first != coll2[i].first || coll1[i].last != coll2[i].last) {
Alert.show("Different");
return;
}
}
}
Alert.show("Same");
}
/* elements need to implement valueOf
public function valueOf():Object{}
*/
public static function equalsByValueOf(
first:ArrayCollection,
seconde:ArrayCollection):Boolean{
if((first==null) != (seconde==null) ){
return false;
}else if(!first && !seconde){
return false;
}
if(first.length!=seconde.length){
return false;
}
var commonLength:int = first.length;
var dictionary:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
for(var i:int=0;i<commonLength;i++){
var item1:Object = first.getItemAt(i);
var item2:Object = seconde.getItemAt(i);
dictionary[item1.valueOf()]=i;
dictionary[item2.valueOf()]=i;
}
var count:int = 0;
for (var key:Object in dictionary)
{
count++;
}
return count==commonLength;
}
/* valueOf sample
* something like javaObject.hashCode()
* use non changing fields(recommended)
*/
public function valueOf():Object{
return "_"+nonChangeField1+"_"+nonChangeField2+"...";
}
I was going to say this.
if(collectionArray === collectionArray1)
But that wont work (not triple = signs). As === is used to see classes.
I would write a function called check if object exists in array.
Create an array to hold elements that are not found. eg notFound
in Collection1 go through all the element and see if they exist in Collection2, if an element does not exist, add it to the notFound array. Use the function your created in step1
Now check Collection2, if an element is not found add it to the notFound array.
There is no 5.
Dude, use the mx.utils.ObjectUtil... the creators of actionscript have already thought about this.
ObjectUtil.compare(collection1, collection2) == 0;