Hello i'm using google sheet as my second databse and in the main page called Companies i have a list of companies as shown below:
and i wrote a function that generate a new tab for every companie in the first column. here is what a tab looks like
my goal is in the companies tab under "Workers" i want to get the value of "Total workers" of each companie. the list of companies will be constantly growing so i thought about maybe a function that uses the value of the first column to search for the tab and then get the value of G2.
I am really new to google sheet and i would appreciate any help on how to solve this problem
SUGGESTION
You can try this sample script below with custom function named getTotalWorkers & then add it as a bound script to your Spreadsheet file:
UPDATED Script:
function getTotalWorkers(){
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var names = ss.getRange("Company!A2:A").getValues().filter(String); //get names of the sheets on column A
var res = [];
for(x=0; x<names.length; x++){
var data = ss.getRange(names[x]+"!G2").getValue(); //get the current cell G2 values on every sheet tabs
res.push([data]); //place all values to a tem[orayr array variable
}
ss.getSheetByName("Company").getRange(2,6,res.length,1).setValues(res); //add the values under the "Workers" column on Company sheet tab
}
Sample Demonstration
After saving the script from the Apps Script editor, place the updated getTotalWorkers function to a time-driven trigger:
The time driven trigger will auto populate the "Workers" F column cells every minute (based on my sample time-driven trigger configuration):
I shared a file of Google sheets with my collaborator, and every day he will input the data into the row of Google Sheets, and I want to lock that row after 1 hour after he finishes his work!
You can use Apps Script for this. Use a time-driven installable trigger in a script that protects/locks the sheet.
Your code should be something like this:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var permissions = sheet.getSheetProtection();
permissions.setProtected(true);
sheet.setSheetProtection(permissions);
Looking to run a script on spreadsheet A and change values on spreadsheet B. If I was running the script within spreadsheet B the following works:
function clear() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
spreadsheet.getRange('Responses!C8:E50').setValue('');
}
How do I change the above script to do the same on a different spreadsheet?
Thanks in advance - Paul
You can use openbyID to change data on other sheet from your current sheet, the ID here is refer to the unique combination of text & number from the sheet URL:
function clear() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById('xxxxxx')
spreadsheet.getRange('Responses!C8:E50').setValue('');
}
I have a spreadsheet with say following page names:
"Sheet 1"
"Sheet 2"
"Sheet 3"
Afterwards, I changed name of
"Sheet 1" -> "Rough"
Is there anyway for me to get a list of all page names of the file in a spreadsheet page in a column?
Issue:
You want to trigger an action when a sheet name is modified (sheet here refers to a tab, or to a page, as you seem to call it). Sheets formulas will not get triggered by a sheet name change.
Solution:
You can accomplish this by installing an Apps Script onChange trigger, which will fire a function you specify when the spreadsheet's content or structure is changed (e.g., when a sheet name is changed). To do this, you can follow these steps:
In your spreadsheet, select Tools > Script editor to open a script bound to your file.
Create an Apps Script function to do the following: (1) retrieve all the sheet names, (2) write these sheet names to a specified sheet. You could use this function, for example. Copy it to the script editor and save the project:
function onChangeTrigger() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive(); // Get current spreadsheet
var sheetNames = ss.getSheets().map(sheet => [sheet.getName()]); // Get sheet names
var destSheet = ss.getSheetByName("All Tab Names"); // Change according to your preferences
destSheet.getRange("A2:A").clearContent(); // Remove previous content
destSheet.getRange(2, 1, sheetNames.length).setValues(sheetNames);
}
Install the onChange trigger to fire the function above, either manually, following these steps, or programmatically, by running this function once:
function createOnChangeTrigger() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
ScriptApp.newTrigger("onChangeTrigger")
.forSpreadsheet(ss)
.onChange()
.create();
}
Note:
The function onChangeTrigger writes all sheet names to column A of a sheet called All Tab Names. Please change that to your sheet name. Also, check this if you want to change the range to which the sheet names are written.
Reference:
onChange trigger
You could install this Addon Formulas to use one of its functions =UTIL_SHEETNAME() within a cell of all your sheets (let say in A1 of every tab), then you would have a master sheet for listing your tabs and where you reference each formula you've used (=Sheet1!A1; =Sheet2!A1; etc...). But this function doesn't seem to update quickly though.
Alternatively, you could write a code (Apps Script) to list all your tabs, which has been answered everywhere. If you need help with the latter, add in your tags 'Google-Apps-Script' to add more visibility to your question.
I would like to open a specific sheet of a Google Sheets from a hyperlink in another spreadsheet.
I have different links in my master spreadsheet and each should have a hyperlink to the same slave spreadsheet but to a different sheet.
I know hyperlink function but it doesn't go to a specific sheet.
You can use this custom script (Tools > Script Editor) function and connect it with e.g. custom drawing (Insert > Drawing... > Save and Close, then right click on new drawing> Assign Script... > "goToSheet2")
function goToSheet2() {
goToSheet("Sheet2");
}
function goToSheet(sheetName) {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName(sheetName);
SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(sheet);
}
Update:
In the newest version you can select cell and add link (Insert > Link) and select link to specific sheet directly:
The HYPERLINK function can link to another sheet in the same workbook; if you observe the URL of the spreadsheet, at the end of it there is #gid=x where x is unique for each sheet.
The problem is, it will open the sheet as a new instance of the spreadsheet in another tab, which is probably not desirable. The workaround would be to insert images or drawings as buttons, and assigning a script to them that will activate specific sheets.
I personnaly did this based on what #rejthy said:
In scripts I created this function:
/**
* Return the id of the sheet. (by name)
*
* #return The ID of the sheet
* #customfunction
*/
function GET_SHEET_ID(sheetName) {
var sheetId = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName(sheetName).getSheetId();
return sheetId;
}
and then in my sheet where I need the link I did this: =HYPERLINK("#gid="&GET_SHEET_ID("Factures - "&$B$1);"Année en cours")
So what I understand from the OP is that you have one master spreadsheet that you want to have links to individual sheets, where one or more of those sheets may be in single or multiple spreadsheet files.
The HYPERLINK function only turns a URL into a hyperlink and is really only useful when you want to have hypertext instead of just a link. If you enter the raw URL as the data, it's automatically turned into a hyperlink, so there's no additional work.
As mentioned in other answers, the solution is to have the spreadsheet's URL then use the gid value to calculate the link to the desired sheet within the spreadsheet. You can write a simple app that collects all of the individual sheets' links and writes them into the master.
Below are some snippets of pseudocode (Python) that can help you get started. I'm leaving out all the boilerplate auth code, but if you need it, see this blog post and this video. The code below assumes your API service endpoint is SHEETS.
This reads a target spreadsheet to build links for each of its sheets:
# open target Sheet, get all sheets & Sheet URL
SHEET_ID = TARGET_SHEET_DRIVE_FILE_ID
res = SHEETS.spreadsheets().get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID,
fields='sheets,spreadsheetUrl').execute()
sheets = res.get('sheets', [])
url = res['spreadsheetUrl']
# for each sheet, dump out its name & full URL
for sheet in sheets:
data = sheet['properties']
print('** Sheet title: %r' % data['title'])
print(' - Link: %s#gid=%s' % (url, data['sheetId']))
Instead of printing to the screen, let's say you stored them in a (name, URL) 2-tuple array in your app, so bottom-line, it looks something like this list called sheet_data:
sheet_data = [
('Intro', 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/SHEET_ID/edit#gid=5'),
('XData', 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/SHEET_ID/edit#gid=3'),
('YData', 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/SHEET_ID/edit#gid=7')
]
You can then write them to the master (starting from the upper-left corner, cell A1) like this:
SHEET_ID = MASTER_SHEET_DRIVE_FILE_ID
SHEETS.spreadsheets().values().update(
spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range='A1',
body={'values': sheet_data},
valueInputOption='USER_ENTERED'
).execute()
Some caveats when using gid:
The first default sheet created for you (Sheet1) always has a gid=0.
Any sheets you add after that will have a random gid.
Don't bank on a gid=0 for the 1st sheet in your spreadsheets however as you or someone else may have deleted the original default sheet, like my example above.
If you want to see more examples of using the Sheets API, here are more videos I've made (along with posts that delve into each code sample):
Migrating SQL data to a Sheet plus code deep dive post
Formatting text using the Sheets API plus code deep dive post
Generating slides from spreadsheet data plus code deep dive post
Then when you open up the master in the Sheets UI, you can clickthrough to any of the individual sheets, regardless of which spreadsheet files they're in. If you want them automatically opened by another app or script, most programming languages offer developers a ways to launch a web browser given the target URL. In Python, it would be the webbrowser module (docs):
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open_new(url) # or webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)
Alternatively, you can try creating a custom function. With the spreadsheet open, click the Tools menu, then Script editor.... Paste the code into the editor:
/**
* Gets the Sheet ID from Sheet Name
*
* #param {string} input The Sheet Name
* #return The Sheet ID
* #customfunction
*/
function SHEETID(input) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var tab = ss.getSheetByName(input);
return tab.getSheetId();
}
Save, refresh the spreadsheet, and then type in your custom function
=SHEETID("Your Custom Sheet Name")
=SHEETID(A1)
And voila! The unique ID for the tab (in the current spreadsheet) is output. You can hyperlink to it by using the following formula:
=HYPERLINK("#gid="&SHEETID(A1),"Link")
In case you want to create a link to another sheet which will open the sheet in the same browser tab here is what you want to do:
1. Get the id of the sheet. Check the link in your browser and you will see #gid=x where x is the sheet id
2. Then you want to set the formula (hyperlink) to the cell and make it show as a hyperlink
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange("A1").setFormula('=HYPERLINK("#gid=X","test")').setShowHyperlink(true);
If you don't use setShowHyperlink(true) it will be shown as a regular text.
This is basically a code version for the update provided by #rejthy above