Is there a way to connect realtime data from wincc scada to google sheets?
It is possible to do so using VB Scripts which are very similar to VBA.
Here is a link from someone who did the same from an Excel sheet: How to write to a “Google Spreadsheet” from Excel 2003 VBA.
You can use the VB Script to create almost the same structure (without strong types) and populate the value fields with your tag values, qualities and anything else.
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I have an application that runs benchmarks and generates a CSV file with the report contents.
To interpret this report, I have created a template GSheets document with queries, drop down selections, graphs, etc.
Consumers must:
Run the benchmarking tool to generate the data CSV
Go to the template document in gsheets (outlined in the readme)
Copy the template into their own gdrive account
Insert the contents of the CSV into the unprotected data sheet of that document
This is a lot of manual handling and I would rather be able to, like a csv, programmatically produce a file that contains the filled out sheet where the consumer just needs to open the sheet with the Google Sheets account.
From what I can see, Google Sheets doesn't have a specific file format that it uses and the gsheet files are just empty magic links that the web app knows to respond to.
I can imagine that I can use the Google Sheets web API to publish a new file to the user's Google Drive but I don't want to mess around with Google OAuth authentication as I feel that's overkill.
Is it possible to write a file that Google Sheets can interpret directly?
Perhaps I can write an older MS Office .xls file and Google Sheets can interpret it via the import functionality?
My backup is writing the report to an html file with a web app that visualizes the data using some charting JS library - though it would be a shame because everything I need is already in Google Sheets.
Google sheets have an API: gspread.
If it's only a matter of switching data, you could create main spreadsheet with graphs etc. set up, and then using an API copy it and paste new data into it.
I have data in Google Data Studio that gets updated from a few sources that don't have historical data. One is a csv of content from our CMS (page, date last updated, etc) that I pull into GDS from Google Cloud Storage, and the other are several Supermetrics Data Studio connectors.
What I'm trying to do is to get the data that is in these GDS reports and automatically pull it into Google Sheets. I've tried making a public report and then using the ImportXML or ImportHTML functions, but that doesn't work. I would love to take those numbers that are pulled into the GDS report, have them display in a cell in Google Sheets, and then use a script to daily add that number to a row in a data sheet, thereby creating a historical set of data from the data in a GDS report.
Has anyone figured out how to do that?
Currently(Apr 2021) there is no automated way to get numbers out of Data Studio into Google Sheets. You can manually export a chart's data by clicking on the chart options and then exporting to Sheets.
If your intention is to automate this, then I suggest revisiting your data flow. Data Studio should be used as a reporting tool and not a data processing one. It should be the last node in your data pipeline. If you need to process and materialize your data in a recurring automated way, that should happen before the data hits Data Studio.
I need to allow user upload excel (xlsx) file and then generate a Google Sheets file using Google Scripts (the generated file uses the input file values, process them with certain formulas and provides another excel file as output based on all processing)
I am currently doing the task in a simple desktop application (using MS Excel etc.), but problem is I have admin rights and I want other people to do the same on their PCs but they dont have admin rights, so please help me with this, whats the best way I can implement it via Google Sheets. I need following to do:
Get an XLSX file from user
Read two columns using google sheet script.
Process the read values and create a new google sheet file with 6/7 columns
Plz help as I am not looking for a ready made code but a head start, as I have never worked with google scripts before.
First you need to study the basics of Apps Script in general, and of the SpreadsheetApp, DriveApp and Advanced Drive Service in specific.
The steps to write your code would be
retrieving the excel file on your Google Drive
retrieving its blob
creating a new file of the mimeType GOOGLE_SHEETS with the contents of your blob
Once you create a Google Spreadsheet - process it with the SpreadsheetApp methods to delete spare contents/ create a copy with only the desired contents.
Here you can find useful samples.
Note: It might make sense to retrieve the columns of interest before
converting them to Google Sheets, but this is not something you can do
with Apps Script or a Google API since they do not have methods to
edit Excel files.
I want to connect a Google Sheets to a new BigQuery table that populates and updates the data automatically from Sheets to BigQuery. I'm using this tutorial from Google itself to do the setup.
My problem: the table connected with spreadsheet was created empty so I had to query it and save the result as another table to see and use the data.
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I'm not expert in these things but does not seems to be the best way to do it. I found some spreadsheet add-ons but I'm trying to avoid them.
Any ideas what's the best way to do this kind of setup/connection?
I had to configure each column manually
BigQuery provides a variety of tools which make it pretty simple to connect the external table to BigQuery.
One option is to simply use the WebUi and the Auto Detect option which help you not to enter each column manually
This works perfectly for me also when inserting and adding data to the external table.
You can refer to BigQuery official manual on an external table for more help
I'm using Talend for several ETL-jobs. Main focus on inserting and updating data defined in local Excel files to Salesforce. Excel and Salesforce are used as Input- and Output-Connections massively.
This works like a charm!
Now instead of Excel I need to use Google Spreadsheets as data inputs/outputs. Just manually download as Excel isn't good enough. Reason: I need a highspeed repeatable process executed thousands of times bi-directional. Uploading/Downloading XLS/CSV is not an option.
As an unfortunate, my researches concluded that there is NO Google spreadsheet connector available. I found this legacy-project which seems to be abandoned: https://code.google.com/p/google-talend-components/ - it is outdated from Talend-side as well as from Google (old API versions).
One other thing I've seen, is that Talend comes with Google Big Data Support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK6G3sTmwVE - Also Google Big Data might be somehow connectable to Google Spreadsheet - but I wasn't able to figure out how. Is this easy or hard? How to start? What to read?
I need to know if there is any viable approach to read and write data with Talend from and to Google-Spreadsheet.
Alternatively is there an other ETL-tool like Talend which has connectors to Google Spreadsheet AND Salesforce out-of-the-box?
Is there a direct google docs connector in Talend, no. But you can do what you are looking to do if you think of the problem a little differently. It sounds like you need to read and write to spreadsheets then upload/download from google. Lets take each problem separately.
Upload/Download
Google storage. If you need to upload and download files from google Talend has excellent integration with their API. As you mentioned, Talend --> Big Data has components to interact with Google Storage. This type of storage is primary meant as back end storage for an application.
In Talend under Cloud-->Google Drive there are components to upload and download from Google Drive. Google Drive is primarily meant as Chrome app and has direct integration with Google Docs.
Writing to Google Docs
Regarding your need to interact with google docs, you do not need any special components for this. Google docs can utilize csv and Excel formats. If you create and modify your documents in Talend using the standard file interaction components ( delimited, Excel, etc.) you can upload and download these documents using one of the two methods I described above (Google Storage or Drive) depending on what type of storage you are using.