I have multiple tabs in a file and want to merge the same range to a master tab.
I did a Query
=QUERY({source1!AR5:AU;source1!AR5:AU}, "select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4 where Col1 is not null order by Col1", 0)
But at the end I will have more and more tabs (around 30), and I don't want to change my query manually each time. how can i do?
I saw somewhere that I can use macros to create a function, do you have an idea of the code?
I just want to have something easy where I have added in another tab all my tab names
Try:
function myFunction() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
var allSheets = [];
// Append more names if you want to exclude more
// Since 'query' is master sheet, excluded it as well
// Remove 'query' below if you want to include it in the formula
var excludedTabs = ['other', 'random', 'query'];
sheets.forEach(function (sheet){
var sheetName = sheet.getSheetName();
if (!excludedTabs.includes(sheetName)){
allSheets.push(sheetName);
}
});
// Set formula in A1 cell in "query" sheet
// Modify A1 to change the cell
var cell = ss.getSheetByName('query').getRange("A1");
cell.setFormula("=QUERY({" + allSheets.join('!AR5:AU;') + "!AR5:AU}, \"select Col1,Col2,Col3,Col4 where Col1 is not null order by Col1\", 0)");
}
This will set the formula to A1 of the sheet query, feel free to change where to set the formula by changing A1 and query.
You can also add sheets to be excluded. Append it on the excludedTabs array.
Sample Output:
Sample sheets were added to check the new sheet cases.
Expected formula was added. (excluding query, random and other sheets)
Related
I've been trying to write a script that simply takes a filtered data, copies it, and then pastes it into another sheet. Nothing I seem to do works. With the code below, which I found online, it should work, but I keep getting an error that states The number of rows in the range must be at least 1. However, I have data in the range A7:R500 and I'm only filtering out blanks and 'W'. Am I correct in this thinking?
function copyPaste(){
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var values = sheet.getRange('A7:R500').getValues();
var hiddenValues = ['', 'W'];
values = values.filter(function(v){
return hiddenValues.indexOf(v[4]) == 'W';
});
sheet.getRange(1,21, values.length, 18).setValues(values);
}
Solution:
Since you are already using a filter Array, you can compare hiddenValues.indexOf(v[4]) to -1 to filter out blanks and "W".
Also, since your goal is to paste the results in a different sheet, you need to define both the source and the destination sheet. Create a sheet and plug its name into the new sheet name tag in the code below.
Sample Code:
function copyPaste() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet1 = ss.getActiveSheet();
var sheet2 = ss.getSheetByName('<new sheet name>');
var values = sheet1.getRange('A7:R500').getValues();
var hiddenValues = ['', 'W'];
values = values.filter(function(v){
return hiddenValues.indexOf(v[4]) == -1;
});
sheet2.getRange(1,21, values.length, 18).setValues(values);
}
Reference:
indexOf()
I have a set of data in a Google spreadsheet in two columns. One column is a list of article titles and the other is the ID of a hotel that is in that article. Call it list1.
Example data
I would like returned a new list with article titles in one column, and an array of the hotel IDs in that article in the other column. Call it list2.
Example data
There are thousands of lines that this needs to be done for, and so my hope was to use Google Apps Script to help perform this task. My original thinking was to
Create column 1 of list2 which has the unique article titles (no script here, just the G-sheets =unique() formula.
Iterate through the titles in list2, looking for a match in first column of the list1
If there is a match:
retrieve its corresponding value in column 2
push it to an empty array in column two of list2
move onto next row in list1
if no longer a match, loop back to step 2.
I've written the following code. I am currently getting a type error (TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined (line 13, file "Code")), however, I wanted to ask whether this is even a valid approach to the problem?
function getHotelIds() {
var outputSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('list2');
var lastRow = outputSheet.getLastRow();
var data = outputSheet.getRange(2,1,lastRow,2).getValues();
var workingSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('list1');
var lastActiveRow = workingSheet.getLastRow();
var itemIDS = [];
for (var i=1; i<=data.length; i++) {
var currentArticle = data[i][0];
var lookupArticle = workingSheet[i][0];
if (currentArticle === lookupArticle) {
var tempValue = [workingSheet[i][1]];
itemIDS.push(tempValue);
}
}
}
Use a simple google sheets formula:
You can use a very simple formula to achieve your goal instead of using long and complicated scripts.
Use =unique(list1!A2:A) in cell A2 of list2 sheet to get the unique hotels.
and then use this formula to all the unique hotels by dragging it down in column B.
=JOIN(",",filter(list1!B:B,list1!A:A=A2))
You got the idea right, but the logic needed some tweaking. The "undefined" error is caused by the workingSheet[i][0]. WorkingSheet is a Sheet object, not an array of data. Also, is not necessary to get the data from list2 (output), it is rather the opposite. You have to get the data from the list1 (source) sheet instead, and iterate over it.
I added a new variable, oldHotel, which will be used to compare each line with the current hotel. If it's different, it means we have reached a different Hotel and the data should be written in list2.
function getHotelIds() {
var outputSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('list2');
var outLastRow = outputSheet.getLastRow();
var workingSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('list1');
var lastActiveRow = workingSheet.getLastRow();
var sourceValues = workingSheet.getRange("A2:B" + lastActiveRow).getValues();
var itemIDS = [];
var oldHotel = sourceValues[0][0]; //first hotel of the list
for (var i = 0; i < sourceValues.length; i++) {
if (sourceValues[i][0] == oldHotel) {
itemIDS.push(sourceValues[i][1]);
/*When we reach the end of the list, the oldHotel variable will never be different. So the next if condition is needed. Otherwise it wouldn't write down the last Hotel.
*/
if (i == sourceValues.length - 1) {
outputSheet.getRange(outLastRow + 1, 1, 1, 2).setValues([
[sourceValues[i][0], itemIDS.toString()]
]);
}
} else {
outputSheet.getRange(outLastRow + 1, 1, 1, 2).setValues([
[sourceValues[i - 1][0], itemIDS.toString()]
]);
oldHotel = sourceValues[i][0]; //new Hotel will be compared
outLastRow = outputSheet.getLastRow(); //lastrow has updated
itemIDS = []; //clears the array to include the next codes
}
}
}
I also converted the itemIDS array to a String each time, so it's written down in a single cell without issues.
Make sure each column of the Sheet is set to "Plain text" from Format > Number > Plain Text
References
getRange
setValues
toString()
Suppose I have the following setting on a Google Sheet:
Column A containing a list of different items (Apple/Melon/Grapes), column B containing Data Validation drop-down menus with either option 1 or 2.
What I want is that if I select option 1 for any of the items, the value of the corresponding cell in column A is going to pasted in D2. If I select option 1 for another item, the value will be pasted in D3, and so forth, thus building a secondary list without leaving any blank cells in between. If I select option 2, the item should be ignored.
Ideally, the order of the items in column D would follow my actions chronologically, i.e. if the item in A3 is the first item I select option 1 for, then it shall be on the top of the column D list at all times, even if later on I select option 1 for A1 as well (which shall then sit on the second position of the D list).
Is it possible to be achieved?
You can do this via Apps Script with a simple onEdit trigger, using its event object.
Select Tools > Script editor to open the Apps Script editor.
Copy this function and save the project (check inline comments):
function onEdit(e) {
// Get the range that was edited (column, row, sheet, value):
var range = e.range;
var sheet = range.getSheet();
var col = range.getColumn();
var row = range.getRow();
var value = range.getValue();
var sheetName = "Sheet1"; // Name of your sheet (the tab) (please change if necessary)
// Check that edited column is B, edited value is 1, and edited sheet is "Sheet1":
if (sheet.getName() === sheetName && col === 2 && value === 1) {
// Get length of non-empty cells in column D:
var columnD = sheet.getRange("D:D").getValues().map(function(item) {
return item[0];
}).filter(function(item) {
return item !== "";
});
var firstEmptyRow = columnD.length + 1; // First empty row in column D
var itemToCopy = sheet.getRange(row, 1).getValue(); // Get value from column A to copy
sheet.getRange(firstEmptyRow, 4).setValue(itemToCopy); // Write value to column D
}
}
Now, every time you edit column B and the edited value is 1, the corresponding option from column A will get copied to column D.
Reference:
onEdit
Event objects: Edit
delete range D2:D and paste in D2 cell:
=FILTER(A:A; B:B=1)
I would like to compare multiple values in a Google Sheet spreadsheet some using for loops in Google App Script. But i would like some advice on the best way to do it.
To explain below...
I have two spreadsheets, A "FOOD" table, and A "FOOD GROUP" table.
I've written a for loop script that goes through the entire FOOD table.
If the key value of both tables matches, the script will update a column from the FOOD table with a column from the FOOD GROUP table.
The script works without issues. But it can only compare one column between the 2 tables at a time. I would like to modify this script so I can compare multiple columns at once, without having to create a for loop for each specified column.
I pasted my code below. I can also provide images of my spreadsheet if you need it.
In any case, I'm new to coding, so any constructive feedback or insight to improve my script will be helpful. I'm happy to answer any questions if anything seems unclear.
function FoodGroup_Test() {
var Data = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var FoodGroupDataSheet = Data.getSheetByName("Food Groups") // "FoodGroup" sheet
var FoodGroupAllValues = FoodGroupDataSheet.getRange(2, 1, FoodGroupDataSheet.getLastRow()-1,FoodGroupDataSheet.getLastColumn()).getValues();
var FoodGroupDataLastRow = FoodGroupDataSheet.getLastRow();
var FoodDataSheet = Data.getSheetByName("Food") // "Food" sheet
var FoodAllValues = FoodDataSheet.getRange(2, 1, FoodDataSheet.getLastRow()-1,FoodDataSheet.getLastColumn()).getValues();
// Object to contain all FoodGroup column values
var Object = {};
for(var FO = FoodGroupAllValues.length-1;FO>=0;FO--) // for each row in the "FoodGroup" sheet...
{
Object[FoodGroupAllValues[FO][15]] = FoodGroupAllValues[FO][11]; // ...store FoodGroup ID Key value
}
for(var F = FoodAllValues.length-1;F>=0;F--) // for each row in the "Food" sheet...
{
var Food_FoodGroupKey = FoodAllValues[F][94]; // Store FoodGroup Key value.
// ...if the Food value dont match, update it with FoodGroup's value
if (Object[Food_FoodGroupKey] != FoodAllValues[F][95])
{
FoodAllValues[F][95] = Object[Food_FoodGroupKey];
}
}
// declare range to place updated values, then set it.
var FoodDestinationRange = FoodDataSheet.getRange(2, 1, FoodAllValues.length, FoodAllValues[0].length);
FoodDestinationRange.setValues(FoodAllValues);
}
FOOD GROUP Table
FOOD table
In order for your code to work as expected, you should do the following changes to your code:
Update your if condition to this one:
Object[Food_FoodGroupKey] != FoodAllValues[F][95] && object2[] != FAllValues[F][86])
In order to avoid the undefined problem use the following line of code:
FoodDataSheet.createTextFinder("undefined").replaceAllWith("");
I have many sheets in my spreadsheet (sheet1,sheet2,sheet3...) and I want to add them all to array, maybe based on any call range? Now I add them manually as below:
=query(
{
INDIRECT("sheet1!$A$3:$V");
INDIRECT("sheet2!$A$3:$V");
INDIRECT("sheet3!$A$3:$V") };
"SELECT Col2, Col3, Col4, ...[etc]")
I want to create any "Settings" sheet and put here all sheets that should be in array, like this:
=query(
{
get_all_sheets_names_from('settings!A1:A100'); // something like this
};
"SELECT Col2, Col3, Col4, ...[etc]")
Is it possible?
My attempts:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZMzu6FuVyAJiWfNIHW87OW1Vpg_mM_QdtGs9nq9UXCU/edit#gid=0
I would like the array with data sources to be taken from the G2:G column.
The example in column C shows how this can be done manually. However, I am looking for a solution so that in the query nothing has to be done so that the query can drag an array with the names of the data source from G2:G
1) What i Think
I think it is not possible to use "INDIRECT" in the query parameters, because "INDIRECT" returns a cell reference and the parameters {(); ()} in a query are fixed objects.
An "INDIRECT" on a complete query is not possible either, for the same reason: a query does not return a reference on a cell.
2) Limited soluce
the principle: case1: look in column G the 3rd line (3rd source), if empty then test case 2, otherwise apply the formula with 3 sources.
case 2: if 2nd source is empty then go to case 1, otherwise apply the formula with 2 sources
case 1: if empty then display "no sources" otherwise apply formula with 1 source
Formula
note 1 replace ESTVIDE (fr) by ISBLANK (eng) !!
note 2 : you can test with (G2="source1" and G3="source2),
but it works with G2="source3" and G3="source1"
=SI(ESTVIDE($G$4); SI(ESTVIDE($G$3); SI(ESTVIDE($G$1); "no source(s)";query({((INDIRECT("'"&G2&"'!A1:A5")))};"SELECT Col1")) ;query({(INDIRECT("'"&G2&"'!A1:A5"));(INDIRECT("'"&G3&"'!A1:A5"))};"SELECT Col1")) ;query({(INDIRECT("'"&G2&"'!A1:A5"));(INDIRECT("'"&G3&"'!A1:A5"));(INDIRECT("'"&G4&"'!A1:A5"))};"SELECT Col1"))
Online sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sCwwFjpYKKzzAvVwmbMUWcmHSc1wY52XnHlFdT00A3U/edit?usp=sharing
Limitations
Off course, this is a formula with only 3 sources max !
It will be verry big and uggly with more sources...
Script
macro is the only solution ?
soluce with Macro
append this script,
it gets value sources values from G2:G30 (you need more...put G100..)
it create the formula and put it on H2
it read max 50 value in each source (see A1:A50 in source code)
it's not so hard to understand,
note : managing macro with GSheet is a another problem, if you needs advices, please post a comment.
link to live sheet :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14XaR-UsADUpCUCVWqeg0zCbfGy3CCvnwVxUhozjYocc/edit?usp=sharing
function formula6() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var values=spreadsheet.getRange('G2:G30').getValues();
var acSources="{";
for (var i = 0; (i < values.length) && (values[i]!=""); i++) {
if (i>0) { acSources+=";" }
acSources=acSources+'INDIRECT("'+values[i]+'!A1:A50")';
}
acSources=acSources+"}";
var formula='query('+acSources+';"SELECT Col1")';
spreadsheet.getRange('H2').activate();
spreadsheet.getCurrentCell().setFormula('='+formula);
};
dudes who copy-pasted INDIRECT function into Google Sheets completely failed to understand the potential of it and therefore they made zero effort to improve upon it and cover the obvious logic which is crucial in this age of arrays.
in other words, INDIRECT can't intake more than one array:
=INDIRECT("Sheet1!A:B"; "Sheet2!A:B")
nor convert an arrayed string into active reference, which means that any attempt of concatenation is also futile:
=INDIRECT(MasterSheet!A1:A10)
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
=INDIRECT("{Sheet1!A:B; Sheet2!A:B}")
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
={INDIRECT("Sheet1!A:B"; "Sheet2!A:B")}
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
=INDIRECT("{INDIRECT("Sheet1!A:B"); INDIRECT("Sheet2!A:B")}")
the only possible way is to use INDIRECT for each end every range like:
={INDIRECT("Sheet1!A:B"); INDIRECT("Sheet2!A:B")}
which means that the best you can do is to pre-program your array like this if only part of the sheets/tabs is existant (let's have a scenario where only 2 sheets are created from a total of 4):
=QUERY(
{IFERROR(INDIRECT("Sheet1!A1:B5"), {"",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT("Sheet2!A1:B5"), {"",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT("Sheet3!A1:B5"), {"",""});
IFERROR(INDIRECT("Sheet4!A1:B5"), {"",""})},
"where Col1 is not null", 0)
so, even if sheet names are predictable (which not always are) to pre-program 100+ sheets like this would be painful (even if there are various sneaky ways how to write such formula under 30 seconds)
an alternative would be to use a script to convert string and inject it as the formula
A1 would be formula that creates a string that looks like real formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA("=QUERY({"&TEXTJOIN("; "; 1;
FILTER(SNAME(1); SNAME(1)<>SNAME(0))&"!A1:A20")&"}; ""where Col1 is not null""; 0)")
then this script will take the string from A1 cell and it will paste it as valid formula into A2 cell:
function onEdit() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName('query'); // MASTER SHEET NAME
var src = sheet.getRange("A1"); // COPY STRING FROM
var str = src.getValue();
var cell = sheet.getRange("A2"); // PASTE AS FORMULA INTO
cell.setFormula(str);
}
function SNAME(option) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet()
var thisSheet = sheet.getName();
if(option === 0){ // ACTIVE SHEET NAME =SNAME(0)
return thisSheet;
}else if(option === 1){ // ALL SHEET NAMES =SNAME(1)
var sheetList = [];
ss.getSheets().forEach(function(val){
sheetList.push(val.getName())
});
return sheetList;
}else if(option === 2){ // SPREADSHEET NAME =SNAME(2)
return ss.getName();
}else{
return "#N/A"; // ERROR MESSAGE
};
}
of course, the script can be changed to onOpen trigger or with custom name triggered from the custom menu or via button (however it's not possible to use the custom function as formula directly)
this will cover all your needs to not edit the formula by adding references if new sheets are added. the only drawback is a recalculation of sheet name script... to do so you need to dismantle A1 formula for example by adding ' before the leading = pressing enter and then removing it to fix the formula
spreadsheet demo