I have a client who is using Google Sheets as a data feed. When using the correctly structured URL for the sheet, I see blank columns in the target table. When I look in the code inspector, I see gsx column header properties that are not an exact match with the column headers.
For example, in the table I am looking at, the first column is name "Case Number". This column is blank in the target table even though it should be populated with case numbers. When I look in the code inspector (Google Chrome), I open up the first row of data in the JSON object and see a key named 'gsx$casenumber'. This key has the property 'undefined'.
In the Google Sheet itself, the case numbers fill this column.
What's odd is that, even with a fresh spreadsheet, the 'gsx$casenumber' key has a property $t of 'undefined'. The column header in the Google Sheet is 'Case Number'.
The next key in the Google Sheet JSON object is'gsx$caseprefixtoeachcaseisd202cv'. This is the key in which the $t properties have the case numbers I should be able to see in the rendered table. This is happening in other columns, too.
Is there a way to either remove the first google sheet key in the JSON, or bind the key with the case numbers to the corresponding column header in the rendered table?
Any input or help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm using Query and Importrange to pull details from other tabs on a Google Sheet.
The other tabs are linked to individual Google Forms.
I'd like to include the name of the sheet the data came from in the query but can't figure out a way to do this.
Any ideas?
I did try having a column on each sheet that contained the name of the sheet i.e. a column on sheet1 where all the entries are sheet1. Then with the query have that column included in the selection.
However, when new Google Forms submissions are made, a new row is added (I think) and the column that contains the sheet name now has a empty entry where the new row was added.
I'm not able to share the sheet as it contains student info from school and it's not-shareable outside my organisation.
Most likely you are using a drag-down style formula within the form responses tab which would cause this rows not aligning with your already included formula as & when new responses pop in!
You could just use an arrayformula accommodated in the first row_cell itself as shown in the screenshot and it should fix this thing. Please do test it out and let us know if its solved or aint.
=INDEX(IF(LEN(A:A),"SHEET 1",))
I have a pivot table, in Google Sheets, and want to add a percentage column.
EDIT: here is a link to a sample spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12qyhOtKphW1iBWAOtfDHU1RdZRZ_Nq91eQtdghZzIyc/edit?usp=sharing
Below you can see the pivot table with the column (E) that I've manually added next to it, showing what I want to achieve, but as part of the pivot table, which is a simple:
E4=D4/C4
However, I have tried adding a Calculated Field under Values but can't work out the right formula; this didn't work:
='Checked In'/'Events'
nor did:
=D4/C4
I'm sure it's something simple, but I can't for the life of me work it out. Can anyone shine a light on what I'm doing wrong please?
Short Answer: Only use the column headers of the raw data and not the column headers of the other existing calculated fields.
Note: Since you have not shared a sample spreadsheet, I have made a sample data just to show the process.
Sample Raw Data
Creating a Pivot Table
Select the desired data to be added to the table which only includes the useful column headers (like the one selected in the sample raw data image).
Add a Calculated Field
To add a calculated field, look for the Values section in the Pivot table editor and click add (as shown above). To enter a formula, the pivot table editor requires you to use the column headers instead of the cell range (A1 notation). The formula you provided works just fine. In this case, I used ='Checked in'/Events to check if column headers with one word do not necessarily need single quotation marks (which will result in the following):
Note: Always use 'string' (single quotation mark) format in using column headers especially when the column headers contain spaces (like Checked in in the example).
Note: You may change the Column Header Output just by selecting the cell and renaming it.
Sample Modifications
You may also use other Google Sheets functions in the formula just like:
Which results to:
Reference
Create & Use Pivot Tables
Additional Info
When trying to add additional calculated fields using data based from other calculated fields, always use the original column headers of the raw data and not the column headers of the calculated fields as it returns an error just like the one below:
In your case, I modified your formula to
=COUNTA('Venue Name')/COUNTUNIQUE('Event Date')
Since both Venue Name and Event Date are the column headers of your raw data and not Checked in and Events. The current output of the corrected formula should look like this:
To address the decimals in the output values, you may refer to the Sample Modifications section of this answer.
I'm trying to extract the whole following Warcraftlog table in a Google Sheets.
I just need the "names" with "count" and the "percentage numbers".
=IMPORTXML("URL"; "XPATH")
=IMPORTXML("https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/P4CQdFTp21wADfKX/#boss=-3&difficulty=0&type=auras&ability=31035"; "//table[contains(#id,'main-table-0')]")
But it doesn't work with //table[contains(#id,'main-table-0')] in the Xpath.
With //table/tr/td it will extract nearly everything on the warcraftlog website, except the table I want to extract.
Is there another option to extract them with XPath?
You are after an html table so switch to IMPORTHTML
Data is pulled dynamically from another endpoint you can find in the network tab of the browser, so make your request to that
The last two webpage visible table columns are $ delimited in the retrieved table so you will need to split the entries e.g. using helper column in column D of sheet (if formula in A1) containing SPLIT
=IMPORTHTML("https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/auras/P4CQdFTp21wADfKX/0/0/6175385/buffs/31035/0/0/0/0/source/0/-3.0.0/0/Any/Any/0", "table",1)
In Google spreadsheets I use the following simple formula:
=QUERY({'pivot data source'!A:AN},"select * where Col1='2021-08' order by Col2")
This works fine so far. However, there is one comment column. It is empty for most rows. Now I added a comment there - it just won't appear in the result of the query formula.
I realized, that it works fine when the comment is a plain number. As soon as there is text, it won't show up.
As stated in the Google Help section for "query":
In case of mixed data types in a single column, the majority data type determines the data type of the column for query purposes. Minority data types are considered null values.
That means: As long as there are more values with numbers (numeric) than values with text (string), the rows with text will not show up. Even if there are as many numbers as text fields (e.g. one numeric value, one string), Google seems to define the column as numeric and strings don't show up.
To solve this problem, you can try to format the corresponding column in tab "pivot data source" as text (Format > Number > Plain text in the menu).
We are using Google Forms to collect data on our students. They use the same Google Form for all students, but as part of the form, they are asked the students name.
The data that ends up being collected you can see on the tab Form Responses 1 on the Google Sheet linked here.
I am attempting to use ImportRange to create a tab for each of the students. The formula that I am using for just one of the students is...
=QUERY(IMPORTRANGE("1nJANDP1fiQunxfxEf-EjwJrnIRICv6kLhYYY9XBXtD4", "Form Responses 1!A:I"),"SELECT * WHERE Col3 = 'Adam N.'")
You can take a look at the tab called Adam N. and you'll see it is kind of working.
One thing that doesn't seem to be working is when there is a text value in columns E-I, that text value doesn't end up showing on the Adam N. tab. Any ideas how I can get both the numbers and the text values to show up?
The other thing that seems to be a problem is the fact that on the Adam N. tab, the very first row has the same headers as the Form Responses 1 tab, but it also has the very first line of data. Any way to remove that?
Importrange is not needed since you are 'importing' from within the same spreadsheet. Also, I'd recommend using the (optional) header argument in query().
It is often noted that users are tempted to mix data types within a column. The query() function will give undesirable output. If a column is intended for numeric values then only numerical values must reside in that column. Date columns must only contain dates and text columns only contain text values.
This does not mean that numbers cannot appear in a text column as long as they are in a text format. So it is important to plan the columns in a table to make sure this rule is maintained regardless if the data table is created manually or via submissions from a Google Form.
Generally, the query() function will assume the greater number of cell types in a column to be that data type. For example, if there are 100 numbers and 20 text values in the same column then a numeric value will be assumed for that column. There is a good chance the text values will just be ignored. One way to avoid this, would be to convert everything to text.
See if this works
=ArrayFormula(QUERY(to_text('Form Responses 1'!A:I),"WHERE Col3 = 'Adam N.'", 1))