Inserting Calender ID in Google Sheet - google-apps-script

Question

I am trying to export events from google sheet to google calender using code I found Here
I have updated it to fit my sheet but the stock code replaced formulas in cells with the value, rendering the sheet useless. I tried replacing the last line
range.setValues(data);
with
range.setFormulas(data);
but this just made all cells blank.
Is there away to use the .setValues to just set the Id?
Coppy of my code forgot to add it
function onOpen() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var entries = [{
name : "Export Events",
functionName : "exportEvents"
}];
sheet.addMenu("Calendar Actions", entries);
};
/**
* Export events from spreadsheet to calendar
*/
function exportEvents() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var headerRows = 1; // Number of rows of header info (to skip)
var range = sheet.getDataRange();
var data = range.getValues();
var calId = "abeaqo4gf3of7u64sa8uufulpc#group.calendar.google.com";
var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(calId);
for (i in data) {
if (i < headerRows) continue; // Skip header row(s)
var row = data[i];
var date = new Date(row[21]); // First column
var title = row[22]; // Second column
var tstart = new Date(row[23]);
tstart.setDate(date.getDate());
tstart.setMonth(date.getMonth());
tstart.setYear(date.getYear());
var tstop = new Date(row[24]);
tstop.setDate(date.getDate());
tstop.setMonth(date.getMonth());
tstop.setYear(date.getYear());
var loc = row[25];
var desc = row[26];
var id = row[27]; // Sixth column == eventId
var tep = row[28];
if (i > tep) continue;
// Check if event already exists, update it if it does
try {
var event = cal.getEventSeriesById(id);
}
catch (e) {
// do nothing - we just want to avoid the exception when event doesn't exist
}
if (!event) {
//cal.createEvent(title, new Date("March 3, 2010 08:00:00"), new Date("March 3, 2010 09:00:00"), {description:desc,location:loc});
var newEvent = cal.createEvent(title, tstart, tstop, {description:desc,location:loc}).getId();
row[27] = newEvent; // Update the data array with event ID
}
else {
event.setTitle(title);
event.setDescription(desc);
event.setLocation(loc);
// event.setTime(tstart, tstop); // cannot setTime on eventSeries.
// ... but we CAN set recurrence!
var recurrence = CalendarApp.newRecurrence().addDailyRule().times(1);
event.setRecurrence(recurrence, tstart, tstop);
}
debugger;
}
// Record all event IDs to spreadsheet
}

Answer 1

Instead of setting all the data outside the for loop, you can get the particular cell (where you want to update the event id) using range and set the value to that cell in each row.
Here is the code. you can just change the row and column values accordingly:
function exportEvents() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var headerRows = 1; // Number of rows of header info (to skip)
var range = sheet.getDataRange();
Logger.log(range.getLastRow());
var data = range.getValues();
Logger.log(data);
var calId = "your calendar id";
var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById(calId);
for (i in data) {
if (i < headerRows) continue; // Skip header row(s)
var row = data[i];
var date = new Date(row[0]); // First column
var title = row[1]; // Second column
var tstart = new Date(row[2]);
tstart.setDate(date.getDate());
tstart.setMonth(date.getMonth());
tstart.setYear(date.getYear());
var tstop = new Date(row[3]);
tstop.setDate(date.getDate());
tstop.setMonth(date.getMonth());
tstop.setYear(date.getYear());
var loc = row[4];
var desc = row[5];
var id = row[6]; // Sixth column == eventId
// Check if event already exists, update it if it does
var event = cal.getEventSeriesById(id);
//Logger.log(id);
range = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange(i, 6);
if (!event) {
var newEvent = cal.createEvent(title, tstart, tstop,{description:desc,location:loc}).getId();
//row[6] = newEvent; // Update the data array with event ID
range.setValue(newEvent);
}
else {
event.setTitle(title);
event.setDescription(desc);
event.setLocation(loc);
// event.setTime(tstart, tstop); // cannot setTime on eventSeries.
// ... but we CAN set recurrence!
var recurrence = CalendarApp.newRecurrence().addDailyRule().times(1);
event.setRecurrence(recurrence, tstart, tstop);
range.setValue(event.getId());
}
//sheet.getRange(i,6).setValue(newEvent);
}
}