I'm trying to convert order form data submitted from a Squarespace website from the following format to a table with 4 columns:
Store,Item,Quantity,Details;Store2,Item2,Quantity2,Details2; (etc...)
Commas separate columns while semi-colons separate rows.
All the methods I've tried so far have been successful in splitting the data into the desired form, but the problem occurs when new data is added. When the form is submitted, it creates a new row in the next available empty row. I can't seem to find a way to automate the process without receiving cyclical dependency errors, since each order can have any amount of item entries.
Example spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZEWtmMiWO0Us76Z7o7GB7Salw1Rl_-1PhK6GzeOD0GM/edit?usp=sharing
The above example splits the data as desired. I cannot figure out how to make it work with the data added as a new row. I would also like to continue using sheets for its cloud functionality.
Any advice is appreciated, including entirely new ways of processing the data, whether with a script, a different remotely accessible order processing app compatible with Squarespace forms, or natively within Sheets.
You want to achieve the following conversion.
Sample formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(SPLIT(TRANSPOSE(split(A4,";")),","))
In this formula, the cell "A4" has the input value.
You have already used the formula of =TRANSPOSE(split(A10,";")). In this answer, I used this.
For TRANSPOSE(split(A10,";")), the value is splitted with , using SPLIT and ARRAYFORMULA.
Result:
Sample script:
When you want to use Google Apps Script, you can also use the following script.
function myFunction(value) {
const values = value.split(";");
return values.splice(0, values.length - 1).map(e => e.split(",").map(f => isNaN(f) ? f : Number(f)));
}
In this case, please copy and paste the script to the script editor, and put the custom function of =myFunction(A4) to a cell.
The same result with above formula can be obtained.
References:
SPLIT
ARRAYFORMULA
split()
map()
Related
Edit/Update: This question is helpful for the specific use case where you are trying to extract urls from cells containing numeric values with linked URLs.
I have a spreadsheet with a column of cells copied from a website containing text with linked urls (i.e. the urls are not stored within a hyperlink formula). Here is a sample spreadsheet. I would like to extract the urls from the linked text (column A) into a new column in the spreadsheet.
Last year (2020) I found the custom function javascript code shared in the comments of this other StackOverflow question which worked well. However when I tried this with a new spreadsheet yesterday, this code was no longer working -- instead of returning the url, it returns nothing. There is no error message, it just returns an empty value.
Other things I've tried:
I was able to successfully retrieve the url in some cases by using this other javascript function:
function GETLINK(input) {
return SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange(input).getRichTextValue().getLinkUrl();
}
But it only worked correctly on cells where the text was not formatted as a number AND it requires entering the input as either a firm cell reference by putting it in quotes i.e. =getlink("A2") or by spelling out the address, i.e. =getlink(ADDRESS(ROW(A2), COLUMN(A2)))
I would like to figure out what has broken with the original code, which does not require these additional workarounds.
Explanation:
From the documentation, getRichTextValue() will return null if the value of the cell is not formatted as text. Most of the codes on the reference question use this method, so it returns error once getLinkUrl() is called. Thus the only workaround for this is to force text formatting by putting single quote before the cell value:
This should also work with linkURL().
I am using Google scripts to try and output 2 .txt files by reading in the information from Sheet 1.
I want my files to look like below one for just titles and the other for footnotes:
Therefore the ‘|’ character in the footnote column needs to split onto a new line with the same program name listed as above.
The attached sheet is a basic example, but I need guidance which would also work if the footnote column had multiple ‘|’ characters.
Any help is appreciated.
Solution
Use the split() JS String method to obtain your strings in a single array.
When obtaining the values from a Spreadsheet the Apps Script methods will arrange them in multidimensional Arrays using this fashon: sheet[rows][columns].
In this example I will use the 3rd column, but you can of course adapt this method to whatever column serves you best:
function splitter() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
var thirdColumnValues = ss.getDataRange().getValues().flatMap(row => row[2].split('|'));
var text = thirdColumnValues.join("\n"); //Just concatenate the values with the "return" symbol
}
Reference
getValues()
JS String
How to extract report based calculation from BRIO report ?
For example Multiple Requests
is there public API available to do this task?
Enter code to remove the fields you want to hide from the Results section after the query
finishes processing. For example:
// Eliminate fields from the drill path
ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"].Columns["State"].Remove()
ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"].Columns["Date Ordered"].Remove()
5) Now select the OnPreProcess event and enter code to put the fields back into the Results
section just before processing the query. That way, any dependent computed items will be
properly refreshed. The corresponding code for the current example would be:
// Add the "hidden" fields so computed items can be recalced
ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"].Columns.Add("Date Ordered")
ActiveDocument.Sections["Results"].Columns.Add("State")
Got the API which can add/remove the calculated items but unable to retrive the existing column formula for the computed items, Is there any API even to retreive the column formula
If you are you trying to get the code if(Count ( Account_Id, Account_Id)>1) {'Multiple Requests'} there is an EIS (Dashboard) code ModifyComputed() that allows you to see it as a string: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/ir_user/ModifyComputed_meth.html
If you have no clue what the original code was, I don't think you can extract it, though.
I'm trying to use a spreadsheet as a database, where each sheet would be a table and the name of a person is used as a primary key (It seems not to be the best solution, but the good spreadsheet interface makes me prefer this solution rather than trying to use ScriptDB.)
And I want to do the following: When you select a name on a sheet and press a button on the menu I added, a function performs a search in another table and a screen and shows all the results of that query in the other table, showing properties records that only that table contains (later I want to add the possibility to generate a text file from a GDocs template).
My questions is:
1) Considering this screen/panel UI has a variable length (because the record number may vary in other tables), what is the best way to create this panel/UI in Google Apps Script? (I don't want to use the Logger.log because I want to add a button to convert the query into a file)
2) In addition to this solution (a search in the resulting 2D array):
function test(){ // to test the find function with an argument, 'any' in this case
var result = findItem('any');
if(result){Logger.log(result.getA1Notation())}else{Logger.log('no luck !')};
}
function findItem(item){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
var data = ss.getDataRange().getValues()
for(var n = 0;n<data.length;++n){
if(data[n].indexOf(item)>-1){ // this is a "strict" find, ie the value must be the entire search item. If you want to do partial match you should compare differently...
return (ss.getRange(n+1,data[n].indexOf(item)+1)); // if found return the range. note the +1 because sheets have 1 index while arrays have 0 index
}
}
return false;// if we come to the end of sheet without result...
}
There is an alternative method to perform queries like this?
THANKS for any help!
Create a UI instance. Then a scrollable panel inside a main panel is the best way of doing this and then using array's to search through the data. I typically create header body and footer panels with the body being scrollable
I am trying to create a custom method in Google Spreadsheet. I have the following method to replace the missing WEEKNUM method. (I leave to second parameter in order to allow upload of excel files.)
function WEEKNUM(inDate, dummy){
return Utilities.formatDate(inDate, "GMT", "w");
}
I call in method in approximately 400 rows twice (800 times) in one spreadsheet. Some of the formulas complete however for other I get this error message.
error: There are too many scripts running simultaneously for this Google user account.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? I understand 800 executions it a lot but not anymore than would be expected of built in functions. I know there are alternative ways to calculate the week number (such as =LEFT(TEXT(A2; "w d"); 2)) however I want to know if it is even possible to create custom formula functions that wont be subjected to this invisible ceiling.
Thank you in advanced for your replies.
Have you custom function receive a range and output an array. No need to use an arrayformula, which also wont work on a custom function
Have you tried an ArrayFormula? In your spreadsheet, instead of having 800 calls to:
=WEEKNUM(-cell-, -dummy-)
in cells A1 to B400, try:
=ARRAYFORMULA(WEEKNUM(A1:B400, -dummy-))
in cell A1.