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Automate Hyperlink Creations

I'm trying to automate hyperlink creations on my GSheet.
Here's my script:
function ticketURLGenerator() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Data");
var range = sheet.getRange("C2:C");
var ticketID = range.getValue();
Logger.log(ticketID);
for(i = 0; i < ticketID.length; i++){
if(ticketID.length === 0){
ticketID.setValue('')
} else if(ticketID.length > 4){
ticketID.setValue('=HYPERLINK' + '("https://mylink.com/'+ticketID+'";'+ticketID+')');
}
}
}
It does nothing but when I change ticketID.setValue by sheet.getRange("C2:C").setValue it put the whole range in the url. We can see with Logger.log(ticketID) that the whole range is selected.
So according to this result, i'm missing how to get the value of each cell individualy in the range and then check if they are long enought to create an individual url. Do I need to use something like range[i] somewhere? I'm lost.

I believe your goal as follows.
You want to retrieve the values from the cells "C2:C".
When the length of value is more than 4, you want to create a formula of HYPERLINK.
When the length of value is less than 4, you don't want to put the formula.
You want to put the formulas to the cells "C2:C".
Modification points:
When range of var range = sheet.getRange("C2:C") is used, the value of var ticketID = range.getValue() is the value of cell "C2". When you want to retrieve values from the cells "C2:C", please use getValues instead of getValue.
In this case, the retrieved value is 2 dimensional array.
When range.getValue() is the string value, ticketID of var ticketID = range.getValue() is also the string. So I think that when ticketID.setValue('##') is run, an error occurs.
In your script, setValue is used in a loop. In this case, the process cost will become high.
And, when sheet.getRange("C2:C" + sheet.getLastRow()) is used instead of sheet.getRange("C2:C"), the process cost will become low a little.
When above points are reflected to your script, it becomes as follows.
Modified script:
function ticketURLGenerator() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Data");
var range = sheet.getRange("C2:C" + sheet.getLastRow());
var ticketIDs = range.getValues();
var values = ticketIDs.map(([c]) => [c.toString().length > 4 ? `=HYPERLINK("https://mylink.com/${c}";"${c}")` : c]);
range.setValues(values);
}
In this modification, the values are retrieved from the cells of "C2:C" + sheet.getLastRow(), and an array including the formulas and values is created, and then, the array is put to the cells.
And I used the template literal for creating the formula.
Note:
In this case, please use this script with enabling V8 runtime.
References:
getLastRow()
getValues()
map()
Template literals

You just need to apply the HYPERLINK operation to the tickets that their length is more than 4. To achieve that, you can use map() to iterate over all the elements in your list.
Solution:
function ticketURLGenerator() {
const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
const sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Data");
const ticketR = sheet.getRange("C2:C"+sheet.getLastRow());
const ticketIDs = ticketR.getDisplayValues().flat();
const hLinks = ticketIDs.map(ti=>{
if(ti.length>4) {
return [`=HYPERLINK("https://mylink.com/${ti}"; ${ti})`]}
else {return [ti]}
})
ticketR.setValues(hLinks);
}

Is it possible to pull different data sets from one column?

I've been trying to write some code that looks down one column with strings based on some simple formulas. I can't seem to get it to recognize the different sets of data and paste them where I want them.
I have tried re writing the code a few different ways in which is looks at all the data and just offsets the destination row by 1. But it does not recognize that it is pull different data.
Below is the code that works. What it does is starts from the 1st column 2nd row (where my data starts). The data is a list like;
A
1 Customer1
2 item1
3 item2
4 Item3
5
6 Customer2
7 Item1
The formulas that I have in those cells just concatenates some other cells.
Using a loop it looks through column A and find the blank space. It then "breaks" whatever number it stops on, the numerical A1 notation of the cell, it then finds the values for those cells and transposes them In another sheet in the correct row.
The issue I am having with the code this code that has worked the best is it doesn't read any of the cells as blank
(because of the formulas?) and it transposes all to the same row.
function transpose(){
var data = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var input =data.getSheetByName("EMAIL INPUT");
var output = data.getSheetByName("EMAIL OUTPUT");
var lr =input.getLastRow();
for (var i=2;i<20;i++){
var cell = input.getRange(i, 1).getValue();
if (cell == ""){
break
}
}
var set = input.getRange(2, 1, i-1).getValues();
output.getRange(2,1,set[0].length,set.length) .
.setValues(Object.keys(set[0]).map ( function (columnNumber) {
return set.map( function (row) {
return row[columnNumber];
});
}));
Logger.log(i);
Logger.log(set);
}
What I need the code to do is look through all the data and separate the sets of data by a condition.
Then Transpose that information on another sheet. Each set (or array) of data will go into a different row. With each component filling across the column (["customer1", "Item1","Item2"].
EDIT:
Is it Possible to pull different data sets from a single column and turn them into arrays? I believe being able to do that will work if I use "appendrow" to tranpose my different arrays to where I need them.

Test for the length of cell. Even if it is a formula, it will evaluate the result based on the value.
if (cell.length !=0){
// the cell is NOT empty, so do this
}
else
{
// the cell IS empty, so do this instead
}
EXTRA
This code takes your objective and completes the transposition of data.
The code is not as efficient as it might/should because it includes getRange and setValues inside the loop.
Ideally the entire Output Range could/should be set in one command, but the (unanswered) challenge to this is knowing in advance the maximum number rows per contiguous range so that blank values can be set for rows that have less than the maximum number of rows.
This would be a worthwhile change to make.
function so5671809203() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var inputsheetname = "EMAIL_INPUT";
var inputsheet = ss.getSheetByName(inputsheetname);
var outputsheetname = "EMAIL_OUTPUT";
var outputsheet = ss.getSheetByName(outputsheetname);
var inputLR =inputsheet.getLastRow();
Logger.log("DEBUG: the last row = "+inputLR);
var inputrange = inputsheet.getRange(1, 1,inputLR+1);
Logger.log("the input range = "+inputrange.getA1Notation());
var values = inputrange.getValues();
var outputval=[];
var outputrow=[];
var counter = 0; // to count number of columns in array
for (i=0;i<inputLR+1;i++){
Logger.log("DEBUG: Row:"+i+", Value = "+values [i][0]+", Length = "+values [i][0].length);
if (values [i][0].length !=0){
// add this to the output sheet
outputrow.push(values [i][0]);
counter = counter+1;
Logger.log("DEBUG: value = "+values [i][0]+" to be added to array. New Array Value = "+outputrow+", counter = "+counter);
}
else
{
// do nothing with the cell, but add the existing values to the output sheet
Logger.log("DEBUG: Found a space - time to update output");
// push the values onto an clean array
outputval.push(outputrow);
// reset the row array
outputrow = [];
// get the last row of the output sheet
var outputLR =outputsheet.getLastRow();
Logger.log("DEBUG: output last row = "+outputLR);
// defie the output range
var outputrange = outputsheet.getRange((+outputLR+1),1,1,counter);
Logger.log("DEBUG: the output range = "+outputrange.getA1Notation());
// update the values with array
outputrange.setValues(outputval);
// reset the row counter
counter = 0;
//reset the output value array
outputval=[];
}
}
}
Email Input and Output Sheets

Google Sheets Script - Search in Arrays and Replace Values in Next Column

For some reason I'm not really able to perform a trivial search and replace in google script (using google sheets).
What I want to do is
Read values form an array in Sheet1
Find the value in a 2D-array in sheet2 (two columns). When the value is found, the script adds '+1' to the value in the column next to the found value in sheet 2.
Repeat for the next value in sheet1
Assume I have a value "Muse" in Sheet 1. I want to search for "Muse" in sheet two and if the column next to this value has already a 1, it should add one and write it back. That's it. Then do the same with the next value in sheet1.
I searched for similar scripts but was unfortunately not able to adapt something to my needs.
Edit: It's driving me nuts, this is what I have at the moment:
function findingReplacing()
{
var sh1 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('sheet1');
var sh2 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('sheet2');
var searchfor = sh1.getRange('B2').getValues();
var replacewith = sh2.getDataRange().getValues();
for(var i=1;i<replacewith.length;i++)
{
if(replacewith[i][0]==searchfor)
{
replacewith[i][1]=1;
}
}
//sheet2.SetValues(replacewith);
sh2.setValues(replacewith);
}

just answered it myself: this works:
function findingReplacing()
{
var sh1 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('sheet1');
var sh2 = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName('sheet2');
var CustDunned = sh1.getRange('B2').getValues();
var range = sh2.getRange("A:B");
var rangeA = range.getValues()
for(var i=1;i<rangeA.length;i++)
{
if(rangeA[i][0]==CustDunned)
{
rangeA[i][1]=rangeA[i][1]+1;
}
}
range.setValues(rangeA);
}

Paste values from one sheet to another and remove duplicates

I have two worksheets in my google spreadsheet:
Input data is coming into the Get Data worksheet via the importxml function.
However, I would like to copy all values of the Get Data sheet to the Final Data sheet and if there are duplicates(in terms of rows) append the unique row.
Here is what I tried:
function onEdit() {
//get the data from old Spreadsheet
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1bm2ia--F2b0495iTJotp4Kv1QAW-wGUGDUROwM9B-D0");
var dataRange = ss.getSheetByName("Get Data").getRange(1, 1, ss.getLastRow(), ss.getLastColumn());
var dataRangeFinalData = ss.getSheetByName("Final Data").getRange(1, 1, ss.getLastRow(), ss.getLastColumn());
var myData = dataRange.getValues();
//Open new Spreadsheet & paste the data
newSS = SpreadsheetApp.openById("1bm2ia--F2b0495iTJotp4Kv1QAW-wGUGDUROwM9B-D0");
Logger.log(newSS.getLastRow());
newSS.getSheetByName("Final Data").getRange(newSS.getLastRow()+1, 1, ss.getLastRow(), ss.getLastColumn()).setValues(myData);
//remove duplicates in the new sheet
removeDups(dataRangeFinalData)
}
function getId() {
Browser.msgBox('Spreadsheet key: ' + SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId());
}
function removeDups(array) {
var outArray = [];
array.sort(lowerCase);
function lowerCase(a,b){
return a.toLowerCase()>b.toLowerCase() ? 1 : -1;// sort function that does not "see" letter case
}
outArray.push(array[0]);
for(var n in array){
Logger.log(outArray[outArray.length-1]+' = '+array[n]+' ?');
if(outArray[outArray.length-1].toLowerCase()!=array[n].toLowerCase()){
outArray.push(array[n]);
}
}
return outArray;
}
Below you can find the link to a sample spreadsheet:
Sample Sheet
My problem is that the data does not get pasted.
I appreciate your replies!

tl;dr: See script at bottom.
An onEdit() function is inappropriate for your use case, as cell contents modified by spreadsheet functions are not considered "edit" events. You can read more about that in this answer. If you want this to be automated, then a timed trigger function would be appropriate. Alternatively, you could manually invoke the function by a menu item, say. I'll leave that to you to decide, as the real meat of your problem is how to ensure row-level uniqueness in your final data set.
Merging unique rows
Although your original code is incomplete, it appears you were intending to first remove duplicates from the source data, utilizing case-insensitive string comparisons. I'll suggest instead that some other JavaScript magic would help here.
We're interested in uniqueness in our destination data, so we need to have a way to compare new rows to what we already have. If we had arrays of strings or numbers, then we could just use the techniques in How to merge two arrays in Javascript and de-duplicate items. However, there's a complication here, because we have an array of arrays, and arrays cannot be directly compared.
Hash
Fine - we could still compare rows element-by-element, which would require a simple loop over all columns in the rows we were comparing. Simple, but slow, what we would call an O(n2) solution (Order n-squared). As the number of rows to compare increased, the number of unique comparison operations would increase exponentially. So, let's not do that.
Instead, we'll create a separate data structure that mirrors our destination data but is very efficient for comparisons, a hash.
In JavaScript we can quickly access the properties of an object by their name, or key. Further, that key can be any string. We can create a simple hash table then, with an object whose properties are named using strings generated from the rows of our destination data. For example, this would create a hash object, then add the array row to it:
var destHash = {};
destHash[row.join('')] = true; // could be anything
To create our key, we're joining all the values in the row array with no separator. Now, to test for uniqueness of a row, we just check for existence of an object property with an identically-formed key. Like this:
var alreadyExists = destHash.hasOwnProperty(row.join(''));
One additional consideration: since the source data can conceivably contain duplicate rows that aren't yet in the destination data, we need to continuously expand the hash table as unique rows are identified.
Filter & Concatenate
JavaScript provides two built-in array methods that we'll use to filter out known rows, and concatenate only unique rows to our destination data.
In its simple form, that would look like this:
// Concatentate source rows to dest rows if they satisfy a uniqueness filter
var mergedData = destData.concat(sourceData.filter(function (row) {
// Return true if given row is unique
}));
You can read that as "create an array named mergedData that consists of the current contents of the array named destData, with filtered rows of the sourceData array concatenated to it."
You'll find in the final function that it's a little more complex due to the other considerations already mentioned.
Update spreadsheet
Once we have our mergedData array, it just needs to be written into the destination Sheet.
Padding rows: The source data contains rows of inconsistent width, which will be a problem when calling setValues(), which expects all rows to be squared off. This will require that we examine and pad rows to avoid this sort of error:
Incorrect range width, was 6 but should be 5 (line ?, file "Code")
Padding rows is done by pushing blank "cells" at the end of the row array until it reaches the intended length.
for (var col=mergedData[row].length; col<mergedWidth; col++)
mergedData[row].push('');
With that taken care of for each row, we're finally ready to write out the result.
Final script
function appendUniqueRows() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sourceSheet = ss.getSheetByName('Get Data');
var destSheet = ss.getSheetByName('Final Data');
var sourceData = sourceSheet.getDataRange().getValues();
var destData = destSheet.getDataRange().getValues();
// Check whether destination sheet is empty
if (destData.length === 1 && "" === destData[0].join('')) {
// Empty, so ignore the phantom row
destData = [];
}
// Generate hash for comparisons
var destHash = {};
destData.forEach(function(row) {
destHash[row.join('')] = true; // could be anything
});
// Concatentate source rows to dest rows if they satisfy a uniqueness filter
var mergedData = destData.concat(sourceData.filter(function (row) {
var hashedRow = row.join('');
if (!destHash.hasOwnProperty(hashedRow)) {
// This row is unique
destHash[hashedRow] = true; // Add to hash for future comparisons
return true; // filter -> true
}
return false; // not unique, filter -> false
}));
// Check whether two data sets were the same width
var sourceWidth = (sourceData.length > 0) ? sourceData[0].length : 0;
var destWidth = (destData.length > 0) ? destData[0].length : 0;
if (sourceWidth !== destWidth) {
// Pad out all columns for the new row
var mergedWidth = Math.max(sourceWidth,destWidth);
for (var row=0; row<mergedData.length; row++) {
for (var col=mergedData[row].length; col<mergedWidth; col++)
mergedData[row].push('');
}
}
// Write merged data to destination sheet
destSheet.getRange(1, 1, mergedData.length, mergedData[0].length)
.setValues(mergedData);
}

Replace text in a Google Sheet and maintaining formulas

I have a Google Sheet that I would like to use as a template. A user submits a Form and a OnFormSubmit trigger makes a copy of the template and replaces certain text with the answers. I would like to use this in several applications and the locations of these text fields may change, so I would rather not specify a specific range or Named range for every replacement.
Using some tidy code from this question I can do exactly what I want. Except, formulas that I have in the template are removed using this method. In other words, a cell in the template has =E10*F10 but after the replacement the value is either blank or 0.
Is it possible to fix this within the code that I have? I can't find a solution except to try a different approach perhaps...
function replacetext(target,key,value){
var spread_sheet = SpreadsheetApp.open(target)
var sheet = spread_sheet.getSheetByName('Sewage Flows');
replaceInSheet(sheet,key,value);
}
function replaceInSheet(sheet, to_replace, replace_with) {
//get the current data range values as an array
var values = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
Logger.log("values: " + values)
//loop over the rows in the array
for(var row in values){
//use Array.map to execute a replace call on each of the cells in the row.
var replaced_values = values[row].map(function(original_value){
return original_value.toString().replace(to_replace,replace_with);
});
//replace the original row values with the replaced values
values[row] = replaced_values;
}
//write the updated values to the sheet
sheet.getDataRange().setValues(values);
}

This isn't the best solution, it seems really inefficient but it works. I changed the approach from grabbing all values using getValues() to just getDataRange()
Then I just check for a formula and skip those cells. Maybe there is a better way.
function replacetext(target,key,value){
var spread_sheet = SpreadsheetApp.open(target)
var sheet = spread_sheet.getSheetByName('Sewage Flows');
replaceInSheet(sheet,key,value);
}
function replaceInSheet(sheet, to_replace, replace_with) {
//get the current data range values as an array
var range = sheet.getDataRange();
var LastRow = range.getLastRow();
var LastCol = range.getLastColumn();
for(var i=0; i<= LastRow; i++){
for(var k=0; k<= LastCol; k++){
var formula = sheet.getRange(i+1,k+1).getFormula();
if(formula == ""){
var old_value = sheet.getRange(i+1,k+1).getValue().toString()
var new_value = old_value.replace(to_replace,replace_with);
Logger.log("old, new: " + old_value + ", " + new_value);
sheet.getRange(i+1,k+1).setValue(new_value);
}
}
}
}