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How do i assign a function to be running in a specific column

I'm developing a Google Sheet spreadsheet to save time at my work routine and I end it up bumping into the script world. This is a very new tool to me and naturally I've been struggling to make it happen.
Currently I'm using Google App script.
I have this function right here:
function insertFollowerCount() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(this.sheetName);
var previousData = prevData();
var followers = getFollowers();
sheet.appendRow([Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT-3", "dd-MM-yyyy'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'") , followers, followers-previousData.followers]);
};
function getFollowers() {
return parseInt(fetch(instagram_base_url + followers)['data']['user']['edge_followed_by']['count']);
}
var header = {'Cookie': ********}
function fetch(url) {
var ignoreError = {
"muteHttpExceptions": true,
"validateHttpsCertificates":false,
"headers":header
};
var source = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, ignoreError).getContentText();
var data = JSON.parse(source);
return data;
}
function prevData() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName(this.sheetName);
var Avals = sheet.getRange("B1:B").getValues();
var Alast = Avals.filter(String).length;
var prevFollowers = sheet.getRange("B"+Alast).getValues();
var prevEngagement = sheet.getRange("H"+Alast).getValues();
return {
followers: parseInt(prevFollowers),
engagement: prevEngagement
}
};
The code that i have take my instagram info and turns into data at my Google sheets. What im looking for is to programing this data to be running at my column 'H' and so on at my Google Sheets every time i run the script

If GoogleJsonResponseException: then skip and move to next row

I have a working script. need to improvise to have no manual interruption. We have multiple Profiles in Analytics, sometimes we lose access and sometimes we have. So when i run the Script, If we lost access to 1 of 60 profiles, i have to delete that entry manually then rerun the script.
What i want is, If there is below error, Then skip and continue with next row
"GoogleJsonResponseException: API call to analytics.data.ga.get failed with error: User does not have sufficient permissions for this profile."
function GoogleAnalytics() {
var doc2 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var dashboard = doc2.getSheetByName("Dashboard");
for(var i=52;i<65;i++){
var viewId = dashboard.getRange(i,13).getValue(); // Your Google Analytics view ID
var metric = 'ga:metric, ga:metric2, ga:metric3';
var option = {'segment': 'gaid::-5'};
var result = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(viewId, metric, option);
var metric = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric'];
var metric2 = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric2'];
var metric3 = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric3'];
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); // Current document
var sheet = doc.getActiveSheet(); // Current sheet
sheet.getRange(i,14,1,1).setValue(metric);
sheet.getRange(i,15,1,1).setValue(metric2);
sheet.getRange(i,16,1,1).setValue(metric3);
} }

try it this way:
function GoogleAnalytics() {
var doc2 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sh = doc2.getSheetByName("Dashboard");
var sheet = doc2.getActiveSheet(); // Current sheet
const vs = sh.getRange(52, 13, 13).getValues();
var metric = 'ga:metric, ga:metric2, ga:metric3';
var option = { 'segment': 'gaid::-5' };
for (var i = 0; i < vs.length; i++) {
var viewId = vs[i][0]; // Your Google Analytics view ID
try {
var result = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(viewId, metric, option);
}
catch(e){
continue;
}
if (result) {
sheet.getRange(i + 52, 14, 1, 3).setValues([[result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric'], result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric2'], result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric3']]]);
}
}
}
Without the benefit of working data some of this may not be correct but using setValues and getValues should speed it up considerably and the try catch blocks should help with not getting result consistently. Also you want to avoid making unnecessary declarations in loops.

I might understand the question incorrectly (if so, please clarify) but it sounds to me like you just need to add...
function GoogleAnalytics() {
var doc2 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var dashboard = doc2.getSheetByName("Dashboard");
for(var i=52;i<65;i++){
try { //...this line and...
var viewId = dashboard.getRange(i,13).getValue(); // Your Google Analytics view ID
var metric = 'ga:metric, ga:metric2, ga:metric3';
var option = {'segment': 'gaid::-5'};
var result = Analytics.Data.Ga.get(viewId, metric, option);
var metric = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric'];
var metric2 = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric2'];
var metric3 = result.totalsForAllResults['ga:metric3'];
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); // Current document
var sheet = doc.getActiveSheet(); // Current sheet
sheet.getRange(i,14,1,1).setValue(metric);
sheet.getRange(i,15,1,1).setValue(metric2);
sheet.getRange(i,16,1,1).setValue(metric3);
} catch(e) { //...this part
console.log(e); //optional, catch(e){} is perfectly valid as well, or any code you might want to execute on error
}
} }

How to get active user email with installabled onEdit trigger? [duplicate]

This question already has an answer here:
onEdit trigger doesn't catch current user
(1 answer)
Closed 3 months ago.
I have a Google spreadsheet with some data. I wrote script to track changes of some specific columns.
function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var menuItems = [
{name: 'Turn on', functionName: 'createSpreadsheetEditTrigger'}
];
ss.addMenu('Tracker', menuItems);
}
function changeTrack(){
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
var ws = ss.getActiveSheet();
const headerRow = 4;
const editBodyCols = [2, 3, 4, 5];
const fResultCol = 6;
var range = ws.getActiveRange();
var row = range.getRow();
var col = range.getColumn();
let target1 = ws.getRange(row, fResultCol);
let target2 = ws.getRange(row, fResultCol + 1)
let activeUser = getCurrentUserEmail();
if(row > headerRow && editBodyCols.some(x => x === col) === true){
if(target1.getValue() !== ""){
target2.setValue(result(ss, ws, row, activeUser)[1]);
} else {
target1.setValue(result(ss, ws, row, activeUser)[0])
target2.setValue(result(ss, ws, row, activeUser)[1])
}
}
}
function createSpreadsheetEditTrigger() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
ScriptApp.newTrigger('changeTrack')
.forSpreadsheet(ss).onEdit()
.create();
}
function date(){
return Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), Session.getScriptTimeZone(), "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
}
function result(ss, ws, row, activeUser) {
const ssName = ss.getName();
let data = `Создал ${activeUser} ${date()}`;
let exp = `Файл ${ssName}, Лист ${ws.getName()}, изменил ${activeUser}, строка № ${row}, ${date()}`;
let adds = [];
adds.push([data],[exp]);
return adds;
}
function getCurrentUserEmail()
{
var email=Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
return email;
}
My problem is to get active user's email. This script can get it but not all the time. Seems like random success. It means sometimes I can get expected value, sometimes not. I don't understand what is it depends from.
Where I'm wrong and how to fix it?

From the documentation on Session.getActiveUser():
Gets information about the current user. If security policies do not allow access to the user's identity, User.getEmail() returns a blank string. The circumstances in which the email address is available vary: for example, the user's email address is not available in any context that allows a script to run without that user's authorization, like a simple onOpen(e) or onEdit(e) trigger, a custom function in Google Sheets, or a web app deployed to "execute as me" (that is, authorized by the developer instead of the user).
So this seems pretty expected and there is no hard workaround you can make to retrieve the users mail. You should maybe just ask for it and see if they be willingly want to give it to you.
Although if you are the developer or the users are inside your organization this restrictions may be ignored:
However, these restrictions generally do not apply if the developer runs the script themselves or belongs to the same G Suite domain as the user.

Based on the comment by b-frid.
The flow:
create a custom menu and tell each user to run the function twice. First time for authorization, and the second time to actually run the code.
this will install the same trigger with the user's privileges and let the onEdit trigger get the email of an active user (author of the trigger)
video-instruction:
https://www.loom.com/share/30b11e4d012447f7a1efdd9a7eac4fca
gist:
https://gist.github.com/Max-Makhrov/e3e89e7fe0c6e86b68a4be1262e53629
Code:
function onOpen() {
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
ui.createMenu('😎📬 run me 2x times')
.addItem('please let script to see your email', 'install')
.addToUi();
}
// function test() {
// var e = {
// range: SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName('test_onEdit').getRange('B2')
// }
// edit_(e)
// }
function edit_(e) {
var targetcol = 1;
if (e.range.getSheet().getName() === 'Sheet1') {
var user = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
if (user !== '') {
var col = e.range.getColumn();
var rows = e.range.getHeight();
var ratgetrange = e.range.offset(
0,
targetcol - col,
rows,
1);
ratgetrange.setValue(user);
}
}
}
function install() {
setOnEditTrigger_(
SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getId(),
'edit_');
}
/**
* create onEdit trigger
*
* #param {string} spreadsheetId
* #param {string} functionName
*
*/
function setOnEditTrigger_(spreadsheetId, functionName) {
console.log('OnEdit trigger ' + functionName +
' for new file' +
spreadsheetId);
var trigger;
if (existsOnEditTrigger_(functionName, spreadsheetId)) {
console.log('stopped execution. Trigger exists.');
return;
}
trigger = ScriptApp
.newTrigger(functionName)
.forSpreadsheet(spreadsheetId)
.onEdit()
.create();
console.log('Created new trigger!')
return trigger.getUniqueId();
}
/**
* check if onEdit trigger exists
*
* #param {string} spreadsheetId
* #param {string} functionName
*
*/
function existsOnEditTrigger_(functionName, spreadsheetId) {
var triggers = ScriptApp.getProjectTriggers();
var trigger = {};
for (var i = 0; i < triggers.length; i++) {
trigger = triggers[i];
if (
trigger.getHandlerFunction() === functionName &&
trigger.getTriggerSourceId() === spreadsheetId &&
trigger.getEventType().toString() === 'ON_EDIT') return true;
}
return false;
}
Original comment:
The key is separate triggers for each user. Then I simply added code
to execute the update only if the Session.getActiveUser().getEmail()
call does not come back blank. Of course, because each's user's
trigger will run, the function will execute x times where x = the
number of users (i.e. triggers), but with the check for a blank return
value the logic only runs once (and so no overwrites). A bit clumsy
indeed, and perhaps not practical if you have more than a handful of
users, but workable in my case.

How to add Emails as Editors of whole document using a Setup Sheet?

I'm trying to take my project from a stage to another, and I was able to make some good progress so far.
I've got the following script that runs when the sheet called Setup_Protections is edited: it removes all the sheets protections then add them back with the Emails specified in the Setup sheet (i.e. add those emails as editors of the protected sheets).
But the problem is that the spreadsheet needs to be shared beforehand so they can access it first. Is there a way to share in the same time the document with the emails entered in the Setup sheet ? (without necessary using a method that requires enabling Sheets API as I'll be duplicating many times the documents)
Thank you for your help
Sheet
MY SCRIPT:`
var environment = {
protectionConfigSheetName: "Setup_Protection",
};
// Script fires when Setup_Protection is edited
function onEdit(e) {
if (e.range.getSheet().getName() === environment.protectionConfigSheetName)
resetSpreadsheetProtections();
}
function removeSpreadsheetProtections(spreadsheet) {
[
SpreadsheetApp.ProtectionType.SHEET,
].forEach(function (type) {
return spreadsheet.getProtections(type).forEach(function (protection) { return protection.remove(); });
});
}
function getProtectionConfig(spreadsheet) {
var protectionConfigSheetName = "Setup_Protection";
var sheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName(environment.protectionConfigSheetName);
var values = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
var protectionConfig = values
.slice(1)
.reduce(function (protectionConfig, _a) {
var targetSheetName = _a[0], emailAddress = _a[1];
var config = protectionConfig.find(function (_a) {
var sheetName = _a.sheetName;
return sheetName === targetSheetName;
});
var editors = emailAddress.split(",");
if (config)
config.editors = config.editors.concat(editors);
else
protectionConfig.push({
sheetName: targetSheetName,
editors: editors.slice()
});
return protectionConfig;
}, []);
return protectionConfig;
}
function setSpreadsheetProtections(spreadsheet, protectionConfig) {
spreadsheet.getSheets().forEach(function (sheet) {
var protection = sheet.protect();
protection.removeEditors(protection.getEditors().map(function(editor) {
return editor.getEmail();
}));
var currentSheetName = sheet.getName();
var config = protectionConfig.find(function (_a) {
var sheetName = _a.sheetName;
return sheetName === currentSheetName;
});
if (config)
protection.addEditors(config.editors);
});
}
function resetSpreadsheetProtections() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var protectionConfig = getProtectionConfig(spreadsheet);
removeSpreadsheetProtections(spreadsheet);
setSpreadsheetProtections(spreadsheet, protectionConfig);
}
Note: there is also another script needed for this one called Polyfill.gs

Finally it's working now:
Add the following to the above code:
function addEditorsToSpreadsheetFromProtectionConfig(spreadsheet, protectionConfig) {
var editors = protectionConfig.reduce(function (accumulator, _a) {
var editors = _a.editors;
return accumulator.concat(editors);
}, []);
spreadsheet.addEditors(editors);
}
Then Add to resetSpreadsheetProtections() the following line:
addEditorsToSpreadsheetFromProtectionConfig(spreadsheet, protectionConfig);

pass argument to mouseCallback

I have a simple, but problematic question.
Is there a way, using google script to send an argument to a mouseCallback?
Some examples are explained here, but each time the cell in written in the function.
I want this cell to change over time, and I need to pass a string to the callback.
This works
function foo() {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var button = app.createButton('submit');
app.add(button);
var handler = app.createServerClickHandler('b');
button.addClickHandler(handler);
doc.show(app);
}
function b() {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var cell = doc.getRange('a1');
cell.setValue(Number(cell.getValue()) + 1);
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
app.close();
// The following line is REQUIRED for the widget to actually close.
return app;
}
I would like something like this
function foo() {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var app = UiApp.createApplication();
var button = app.createButton('submit');
app.add(button);
var value = 'A1';
var handler = app.createServerClickHandler('b', value);
button.addClickHandler(handler);
doc.show(app);
}
function b(value) {
var doc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var cell = doc.getRange(value);
cell.setValue(Number(cell.getValue()) + 1);
var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
app.close();
// The following line is REQUIRED for the widget to actually close.
return app;
}
Can anyone help me in this?
Thanks !

There is answers to this question in here :
Thansk to google forum users :)
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/apps-script/thread?fid=2ef3693fc9aee1050004ad903de88dd4&hl=en