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How to rename a new google sheet using cell references?

So currently, I am trying to make a google script that exports separate google sheets for each unique username -- i.e., to try to make a customizable report for each client. Basically, I have a list of unique usernames -- a list called uniqueUserName -- and I want to set the name of the new sheet to the "Name" which corresponds to the username. For example, suppose Sally1 is in the following table. The code would search through the usernames (with a for loop) and, once the for loop hits Sally1, the code would return Sally Wall -- i.e., the name corresponding to her username. Sally Wall would then be the new name of the document.
Username
Name
Timmy
Tim Jones
Sally1
Sally Wall
catsforlife
John Mueller
ready2learn
Cindy Rodney
I have tried the following code:
newSheet.setName(function(uniqueName, values){
for (var i=0; i < values.length; i++) {
if (values[i][0].Username === uniqueName) {
return values[i][1].Name;
break;
}
}
});
(I include the break function, because, if someone's name shows up twice, I don't want to copy their name twice. )
How would I have to adjust this code to serve these ends? Is this on the right track?
Honestly, I've been at this code for a while, looking up as much as I can, on stack overflow, YouTube, so your help is much appreciated!

One problem is that you're passing a function to the setName() method, but it expects a string. One straightforward way to solve this would be to immediately call the function after it's declared, passing the arguments as well.
Another thing is that you're trying to access the properties Name and Username of elements in values, but, assuming you received values from getValues(), those properties don't exist. You can get the values you want by just using the indices, as you're already doing: values[i][0] and values[i][1].
Also, you don't need to use break because the loop will be interrupted by the return statement anyway.
Considering the above and assuming there's a sheet called Names (that has the names you posted) and another called Report Template, you can change your code to something like:
function newNamedSheetTest() {
const uniqueName = 'Sally1';
const spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const values = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Names').getDataRange().getValues();
const newSheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Report Template').copyTo(spreadsheet);
newSheet.setName(function (uniqueName, values) {
for (let i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
if (values[i][0] === uniqueName) {
return values[i][1];
}
}
}(uniqueName, values));
}
Another option would be to use filter and map to get the name of the sheet:
function newNamedSheetTestShort() {
const uniqueName = 'Sally1';
const spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const values = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Names').getDataRange().getValues();
const newSheetName = values.filter(row => row[0] === uniqueName).map(row => row[1]);
const newSheet = spreadsheet.getSheetByName('Report Template').copyTo(spreadsheet);
newSheet.setName(newSheetName);
}

Google Script: Retrieving Default Values for Filter

I would like to create a filter for a column in a spreadsheet, then retrieve the list of default criteria values created for the filter. I believe that my code returns a Filter object without any values for it.
function TestFilter(){
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sheet = spreadsheet.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange(1, 2, sheet.getMaxRows(), 1).createFilter();
var filter = sheet.getFilter();
var output = filter.getColumnFilterCriteria(2).getCriteriaValues();
return output;
}

You can use the following functions for this:
getHiddenValues()
Returns the values to hide.
getVisibleValues()
Returns the values to show.
In case your filter is set to hide all of the possible values, you will obtain what you desire by using the function getHiddenValues().
However, this will not be possible if your filter is only hiding a subset of your values. For that case, you could use a Google Apps Script function such as the following below to obtain the distinct values:
function getDistinctValues(range) {
var values = range.getValues();
var unique = {};
for (var i=0; i<values.length; i++) {
for (var j=0; j<values[i].length; j++) {
var key = values[i][j];
if (key !== null && key !== undefined && key !== '')
unique[key] = true;
}
}
return Object.keys(unique);
}
The usage of it would be, in case you were attempting to obtain the distinct values on your A column:
var distinctValues = getDistinctValues(sheet.getRange("A2:A"));
Note that this function will return the values as Strings. In case you want to obtain the actual numeric value instead of a String, you can parse the values simply by using the following code:
var distinctValues = getDistinctValues(sheet.getRange("A2:A")).map(parseFloat);

I believe there is a bug with 2 out of 3 of these functions, by using something like this:
var filter = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("sheetName").getFilter();
var criteriaValues = filter.getColumnFilterCriteria(9).getCriteriaValues();
Logger.log("criteria Values length " + criteriaValues.length);
Logger.log(criteriaValues);
var visibleValues = filter.getColumnFilterCriteria(9).getVisibleValues();
Logger.log("visible Values length " + visibleValues.length);
Logger.log(visibleValues);
var hiddenValues = filter.getColumnFilterCriteria(9).getHiddenValues();
Logger.log("hidden Values length " + hiddenValues.length);
Logger.log(hiddenValues);
and setting a filter on column I (9th from the left) regardless of how many or which values I filter by, I only ever see the values that I've hidden from the column, the criteriaValues and visibleValues arrays are always empty, while hiddenValues always shows correctly the values that are filtered out.
If someone could double check this and confirm it would be great, otherwise, maybe I'm just doing something really silly, in which case please let me know as well :).
This is created based on https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/spreadsheet/filter-criteria.html
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excel javascript API array handling

I'm working on an add-in for excel 2016 using the javascript API. I can successfully get the range into an array and get the values to show in console.log. I've also been able to get the values into a JSON array using JSON.stringify();
I need to manipulate the array to remove the empty values ("").
Can this be accomplished by using regular javascript array methods?
I'm thinking I can display the results back into a different worksheet using a similar approach like i did with var shWk
Here are some snippets of what I'm trying to do:
(function () {
"use strict";
// The initialize function must be run each time a new page is loaded
Office.initialize = function (reason) {
$(document).ready(function () {
app.initialize();
//document.getElementById("date").innerHTML = Date("MAR 30 2017");
$('#deleteTab').click(deleteTab);
$('#preview').click(preview);
$('#publish').click(publish);
});
};
function preview() {
Excel.run(function(ctx) {
//getting the colname from a date range in B2
var colName = ctx.workbook.worksheets.getItem('preview').getRange("B2");
colName.load('values');
return ctx.sync().then(function() {
//converting colname value to string for column name
var wkN = (colName.values).toString();
// displaying on the task pane
document.getElementById("tst").innerText = wkN;
// testing to confirm i got the correct colname
var shWk = ctx.workbook.worksheets.getItem('preview').getRange("B3");
shWk.values = colName.values;
//building the column connection by setting the table name located on a different worksheet
var tblName = 'PILOT_ZMRP1';
var tblWK = ctx.workbook.tables.getItem(tblName).columns.getItem(wkN);
//loading up tblWK
tblWK.load('values');
return ctx.sync().then(function(){
//this is where my question is:
var arry = tblWK.values;
for (var i=0; i < tblWK.length; i++){
if (tblWK.values !== ""){
arry.values[i][0]) = tblWK.values[i][0]
};
};
console.log(arry.length); //returns 185
console.log (arry.values);//returns undefined
tblWK.values = arry;
var tblWeek = tblWK.values;
console.log(tblWeek.length);//returns 185
console.log(tblWK.values);//returns [object Array] [Array[1],Array[2]
})
});
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
console.log("debug info: " + JSON.stringify(error.debugInfo));
});
}
What am I missing? Can you point me to some resources for javascript array handling in the specific context of office.js?

I want to thank everyone for the time spent looking at this question. This is my second question ever posted on Stack Overflow. I see that the question was not written as clear as it could've been. What i was trying to achieve was filtering out the values in a 1D array that had "". The data populating the array was from a column in a separate worksheet that had empty values (hence the "") and numeric values in it. the code below resolved my issue.
//using .filter()
var itm = tblWK.values;
function filt(itm){
return itm != "";
}
var arry = [];
var sht = [];
var j=0;
var s=0;
arry.values = tblWK.values.filter(filt);
//then to build the display range to show the values:
for (var i=0; i < itm.length-1; i++) {
if (tblWK.values[i][0]){
var arry; //tblWK.values.splice(i,0); -splice did not work, maybe my syntax was wrong?
console.log("this printed: "+tblWK.values[i][0]);
var cl = ('D'+i); //building the range for display
j++; //increasing the range
s=1;//setting the beignning range
var cll = cl.toString();//getRange() must be a string
console.log(cll);//testing the output
}
}
//using the variable from the for loop
var cl = ('D'+s+':D'+j);
var cll = cl.toString();
console.log(cll);//testing the build string
sht = ctx.workbook.worksheets.getItem('Preview').getRange(cll);
sht.values = arry.values; //displays on the preview tab
console.log (arry.values); //testing the output
The question was probably easier said by asking what vanilla javascript functions does office.js support. I found a lot help reading Building Office Add-ins using Office.js by Micheal Zlatkovsky and by reading the MDN documentation as well as the suggested answer posted here.
Regards,
J

I'm not sure what this check is trying to achieve: tblWK.values !== "". .values is a 2D array and won't ever be "".
For Excel, the value "" means that the cell is empty. In other words, if you want to clear a cell, you assign to "". null value assignment results in no-op.

You can just fetch the values form the array that contains null by using for each and can can push the null values into another array.

Google Script: Format URL in Array.Push

I have a working script that upon form submit, specific rows move from one sheet to another. One of the fields I'm pushing is a url.
On the second sheet, the link is listed and it is hyperlinked, but it's really ugly and I really want to format it so that it shows "Edit" with a hyperlink. I've tried a number of ways, but my knowledge is limited so all I get are errors. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Here is my code. I'm very new at this so the script is not at all sophisticated. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated!
function copyAdHoc(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheetByName("Form Responses 1"));
var data = sh.getRange(2, 1, sh.getLastRow() - 1, sh.getLastColumn()).getValues();
// Grab the Headers from master sheet
var headers = sh.getRange(1,1,1,sh.getLastColumn()).getValues();
var date = headers[0].indexOf('Effective Date');
var name = headers[0].indexOf('Employee Name');
var loc = headers[0].indexOf('Location');
var issue = headers[0].indexOf('Description/Question/Issue');
var add = headers[0].indexOf('Additional Information');
var change = headers[0].indexOf('Is this a Qualifying Life Event?');
var url = headers[0].indexOf('Form URL');
var category = headers[0].indexOf('Primary Category');
var status = headers[0].indexOf('Current Status');
var users = headers[0].indexOf('Users');
// Grab only the relevant columns
for(n = 0; n < data.length; ++n ) { // iterate in the array, row by row
if (data[n][change] !== "Yes" & data[n][category] !== "Employee Relations" & data[n][date] !== "") { // if condition is true copy the whole row to target
var arr = [];
arr.push(data[n][url]);
arr.push(data[n][users]);
arr.push(data[n][date]);
arr.push(data[n][loc]);
arr.push(data[n][name]);
arr.push(data[n][category]);
arr.push(data[n][issue] + ". " + data[n][add]);
arr.push(data[n][status]);
var sh2 = SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheetByName("Ad Hoc")); //second sheet of your spreadsheet
sh2.getRange(sh2.getLastRow()+1,2,1,arr.length).setValues([arr]); // paste the selected values in the 2cond sheet in one batch write
}
}
}

It's a bit messy but the only way I know to achieve what you're trying to do would be to insert a column to the left of the hyperlink with the word Edit right justified and then remove the borders between the two.

From your description I am assuming you want the word "Edit" to be Hyperlinked. To do so, try this:
function getHyperlink(url)
{
return "=HYPERLINK(\""+url+"\","+"\"Edit\""+")";
}
function mainFunct()
{
//Do necessary steps
var tarLink = "https://www.google.com";
var tarRng = tarSheet.getRange(rowNum, colNum).setValue(getHyperlink(tarLink));
//perform other steps
}
EDIT:
Forgot to mention, since you're pushing your values to the array... you can do it in a similar way by either just storing the hyperlink in a variable or directly pushing it to the array like all the other values. Or if you're dealing with a hyperlink that has a static and dynamic part, For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/post_id, where post_id keeps changing but most of the URL is static, you can easily handle it by just passing the post_id to the getHyperlink function and getting the required Hyperlink in return. Hope this helps.

textContent Vs. innerText Cross Browser solution

I've been having a hard time with cross browser compatibility and scrapping the dom.
I've added data analytics tracking to ecommerce transactions in order to grab the product and transaction amount for each purchase.
Initially I was using document.querySelectorAll('#someId')[0].textContent to get the product name and that was working fine for every browser except internet explorer.
It took some time to figure out that it was the .textContent part that was causing ie problems.
Yesterday I changed .textContent to .innerText. From looking inside analytics it seems that the issue has been resolved for ie but now Firefox is failing.
I was hoping to find a solution without writing an if statement to check for the functionality of .textContent or .innerText.
Is there a cross browser solution .getTheText?
If not what would be the best way around this? Is there a simple solution? (I ask given my knowledge and experience with scripting, which is limited)
** added following comments **
If this is my code block:
// build products object
var prods = [];
var brand = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomLocation');
var name = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomDescription');
var price = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomSplashPriceAmount');
for(var i = 0; i < brand.length; i++) {
//set granular vars
var prd = {};
//add to prd object
prd.brand = brand[i].innerText;
prd.name = name[i].innerText;
prd.price = price[i].innerText;
prd.quantity = window.session_context_vars.BookingContext.Booking.ReservationLineItems[i].ReservationCharges.length/2;;
//add to prods array
prods.push(prd);
}
Then if I understand the syntax from the comments and the question linked to in the comment, is this what I should do:
// build products object
var prods = [];
var brand = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomLocation');
var name = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomDescription');
var price = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomSplashPriceAmount');
for(var i = 0; i < brand.length; i++) {
//set granular vars
var prd = {};
//add to prd object
prd.brand = brand[i].textContent || brand[i].innerText;
prd.name = name[i].textContent || name[i].innerText;
prd.price = price[i].textContent || price[i].innerText;
prd.quantity = window.session_context_vars.BookingContext.Booking.ReservationLineItems[i].ReservationCharges.length/2;;
//add to prods array
prods.push(prd);
}
So using or with a double bar || assigns the first non null value?

Re: your edit, not quite. The way to access methods or properties on an object (eg a DOM element) is to use dot notation if you have the name itself, or square brackets in case of variables/expressions (also works with strings, as in obj["propName"], which is equivalent to obj.propName). You can also just test the property against one element and use that from there on:
// build products object
var prods = [];
var brand = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomLocation');
var name = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomDescription');
var price = document.querySelectorAll('.txtStayRoomSplashPriceAmount');
for(var i = 0; i < brand.length; i++) {
//set granular vars
var prd = {};
//add to prd object
var txtProp = ("innerText" in brand[i]) ? "innerText" : "textContent"; //added string quotes as per comments
prd.brand = brand[i][txtProp];
prd.name = name[i][txtProp];
prd.price = price[i][txtProp];
prd.quantity = window.session_context_vars.BookingContext.Booking.ReservationLineItems[i].ReservationCharges.length/2;;
//add to prods array
prods.push(prd);
}
Regarding the line:
var txtProp = (innerText in brand[i]) ? innerText : textContent;
The in keyword checks an object to access the property (syntax: var property in object). As for the question notation (I made an error earlier, using ||, the correct thing to use was a :),
var myVar = (prop in object) ? object[prop] : false;
As an expression, it basically evaluates the stuff before the ?, and if it's true, returns the expression before the :, else the one after. So the above is the same as / a shorthand for:
if(prop in object){
var myVar = object[prop];
}
else{
var myVar = false;
}
Since you are checking between two properties only and wanting to assign one or the other, the shortest way would indeed be:
var txtProp = brand[i].innerText || brand[i].textContent;
It would basically test the first property, and if it were false or undefined, it would use the second one. The only reason I (pedantically) avoid using this is because the first test of a || b would fail even if a existed but just had a value of 0, or an empty string (""), or was set to null.