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How to archive certain rows to another sheet

I am trying to move my team's productivity to another sheet via Apps Script.
On the sheet "Prod" you can see the weekly productivity the team has put in. The "Approved" column has checkboxes where the work can be manually verified.
The second sheet is the "Archives" sheet. Where the Apps Script will move all of the responses from the "Prod" sheet over there.
Apps Script Code
function archive() {
// Get the information
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var s = ss.getSheetByName('Prod');
var a = ss.getSheetByName('Archives');
var data = s.getRange('A2:F').getValues();
// Archive the results
for (i in data) {
var write = data[i];
a.appendRow(write);
}
// Clear the results
s.getRange('A2:E').clear();
s.getRange('F2:F').uncheck();
}
The Problem
The code works perfectly fine, however, when it is moving the "Prod" responses over to the "Archives" it includes the empty rows. This is because in the "Approved" column the checkbox is technically false, which means it's included. How would I go about changing the code to only transfer rows that have data in the A column?
Thanks!

I believe your goal as follows.
You want to copy the values from Prod to Archives when the value of column "A" in Prod is not empty.
Modification points:
In your script, all values of var data = s.getRange('A2:F').getValues(); is copied to Archives. So in this case, it is required to check the column "A" of data.
When appendRow() is used in a loop, the process cost will be high. Ref
When above points are reflected to your script, it becomes as follows.
Modified script:
function archive() {
// Get the information
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var s = ss.getSheetByName('Prod');
var a = ss.getSheetByName('Archives');
var data = s.getRange('A2:F').getValues();
// Archive the results <--- I modified this part.
var copyValues = data.filter(([a]) => a.toString() != "");
a.getRange(a.getLastRow() + 1, 1, copyValues.length, copyValues[0].length).setValues(copyValues);
// Clear the results
s.getRange('A2:E').clear();
s.getRange('F2:F').uncheck();
}
References:
Benchmark: Reading and Writing Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script
filter()
setValues(values)

Loading data error. Why isn't it loading?

I am trying to set up google sheets to pull data from an API. At first it worked, now it just says "Loading error..." on the cell with the formula.
I have tried it on a new sheet. I have simplified it to one input variable.
function getPrice(item,city){
var url = "https://www.albion-online-data.com/api/v1/stats/prices/"+item+"?
locations="+city;
var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
var object = JSON.parse(jsondata.getContentText());
return object[0].sell_price_min;
}
The variables are "item" and "city". For which examples include "T1_Wood" item in "Caerleon" city. I'd like to make a table to pull the prices for different items in different cities. Thank you!

Google Sheets/JIRA Connection

I'm trying to connect Google Sheets to JIRA to gather the data for updating reports automatically.
I'm struggling however with a couple of points in this modified script.
I want to return the component field but calling the name field returns undefined.
var components = data["issues"][id].fields.components.name;
If I remove the name field, then I get the following response:
{name=#####, self=https://www.#########/rest/api/2/component/26357, id=26357}
The second issue is that only a handful of issues are being rendered. As far as I can see my REST call looks OK, as does the writing to tables:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet(); //select active spreadsheet
sheet.getRange(2, 1, issuessss.length, 7).setValues(issuessss); // write from cell A2
break;
Anyone have any ideas that could help?

The field component is an array so components.name does not exist (i.e components[0].name would work).
Before setting the values, try to execute a flush first.

Send HTTP Post When Google Spreadsheet Updated

I already have a spreadsheet that submitted by 3rd party apps (which I can't change its code).
Then, I need to send HTTP (Post) automatically to http://THISISMYURL.url/go.aspx?fieldone=xxx&fieldtwo=xxx when my Google spreadsheet updated.
What in my mind is to create a script in Google Spreadsheet and use UrlFetchApp in my code.
function SendHTTPpost() {
//How to pick data from any field in last column (everytime google spreadsheet updated)?
var data =
{
"fieldOne" : "value for field one (from last column)",
"fieldTwo" : "value for field two (from last column)",
};
var options =
{
"method" : "post",
"payload" : data
};
UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://THISISMYURL.url/go.aspx", options);
}
I know that I missed some command which to fetch some data from spreadsheet. Anybody get some idea to do this?
Thanks for helping me :)

Thanks to #Mogsdad for giving a clue for me. And thanks to #Zig Mandel for suggesting me to read spreadsheetApp documentation.
Here are what I did in my code, and it's works!
// get the spreadsheet object
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
// set the first sheet as active
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(spreadsheet.getSheets()[0]);
// fetch this sheet
var sheet = spreadsheet.getActiveSheet();
// figure out what the last row is
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow();
var lastColumn = sheet.getLastColumn();
At the last command, I use UrlFetchApp classes by fetch(url) method that I learn from here
Thanks to all for helping me.
And hopefully it will help others too.
Yeay!!!

Issue with creating an "old-fashioned" mail merge with Google Apps Script

This is a followup to a question I asked yesterday on the Google Apps Script Office Hours Hangout.
The goal of my final script is to create an election process for student elections at the high school where I work using Google Forms. The script has three parts: 1) Create Unique "Voting IDs" (a random 6-digit code) 2) Merge the student data (Name, Homeroom, & Voting ID) on with a template document that will create specific voting instruction for each student. (i.e. an old-fashioned mail merge) 3) Verify the results by checking Voting ID's and removing duplicate votes.
The part of the script that I am having trouble with is the student data merge (step 2). The first dataset is the only one that works. The rest show up as "DocumentBodySection". I have a feeling it is either how I am copying the text from the Document Template or how I am adding the text to the new document.
Spreadsheet w/ Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AierVcXWELCudFI1LU10RnlIVHNsUm11a0dDWEV6M1E
Document Template: (see followup comment for url)
Document Created by Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12r2D9SpIVmQYVaasMyMWKjHz6q-ZZyIMEBGHTwlQct8/edit
//Get Settings & Data
ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
source_sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Student Data");
settings_sheet = ss.getSheetByName("SETTINGS");
results_column = settings_sheet.getRange("B19").getValue();
source_column = settings_sheet.getRange("B18").getValue();
source_lastrow = source_sheet.getLastRow();
docTemplateID = settings_sheet.getRange("B13").getValue();
docCopyName = settings_sheet.getRange("B14").getValue();
//Merge Student Data with Document
function SendDataMerge () {
// Open docTemplate and Copy Contents to entryTemplate
var docTemplate = DocumentApp.openById(docTemplateID);
var entryTemplate = docTemplate.getActiveSection();
docTemplate.saveAndClose();
// Make a NEW copy of docTemplate
var docTemplate = DocsList.getFileById(docTemplateID);
var docCopy = DocsList.copy(docTemplate, docCopyName);
var docCopyID = docCopy.getId();
// Create Array of Student Data (First, Last, Grouping, VID)
var data = source_sheet.getRange("A2:D"+source_lastrow).getValues();
// Open docCopy for Editing & Clear Contents
var doc = DocumentApp.openById(docCopyID);
var docText = doc.editAsText();
// Run through Student Data
for(var i=0; i<5 /*data.length*/; i++) { //For testing, limit this to 5 entries
var lastName = data[i][0];
var firstName = data[i][1];
var grouping = data[i][2];
var vid = data[i][3];
docText.replaceText('keyLastName', lastName);
docText.replaceText('keyFirstName', firstName);
docText.replaceText('keyGrouping', grouping);
docText.replaceText('keyVID', vid);
docText.appendText('\n*** Appended Text (End of entry) ***');
docText.appendText(entryTemplate);
}
// Save and Close
doc.saveAndClose();
}

I worked around this issue by creating a copy of the template, doing the text replacement and then appending the template elements from the original document into the copy. In particular, I used: var copyTables = templateDoc.getTables(); to fetch and store the tables (as all of my template data was contained in a table) and copyDoc.appendTable(copyTables[0].copy() ); to append the copy (the .copy() at the end seems to work the real magic). This provides the flexibility of updating the template in the friendly Documents interface without having to see a programmer.

I think the problem is with this line:
docText.appendText(entryTemplate);
The variable entryTemplate holds a DocumentBodySection, which is why you are seeing that in the output. If you are trying to append another copy of the original template text you'll need to store that before you enter the loop.

I agree with Eric that appendText(entryTemplate) isn't going to do what you want it to do.
Since you're trying to create one large document with all the students, using a "template" and replacing the text isn't going to work well. I'd suggest instead, creating the "template" in code using the api calls that produce the formatting you want. Then it makes it simple to keep appending new pages of student instructions. Although I think you may run into slowness when the document gets large... I don't know how many students you have.