I am using the Google Analytics Spreadsheet add-on to fetch report data into a spreadsheet. The data from Google Analytics is pulled daily in my spreadsheet and shown in an Overview sheet. However, I would like to store the values for later reference.
Google Analytics add-on sheet
My idea is to store all daily values in one sheet and fetch these values via INDEX/MATCH.
I would like to "persist" the row of the current day after the Google Analytics report is run, to store this value for the future.
Any suggestions how to do this?
The Google Analytics Spreadsheet Add-on doesn't have an append feature, so you cannot keep data from previous runs and add data from new runs.
However, you don't need to: since you're going to do a lookup (index-match), it doesn't matter on which rows the data sits, since you're lookup is going to find it. So you can build your reports to get data from the last N days (eg last year with Start Date = TODAY()-366 and End Date = TODAY()-1 (not getting data from today due to GA data processing latency). Traditionally when doing reporting you're interested in a time period that's relative to now (eg "how has it been going for the last 12 months?"), hence the above method would be suitable.
If you want an append feature, you need to use other solutions, like SuperMetrics.
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I have a google form that is being used by the employees of my firm to upload stock details. Now daily it has around 20 entries daily. I used google form since I can manage the data in google sheet pretty easily. But using IMPORTRANGE on these files has made it very slow. Thus, I wanted to shift to SQL database.
The issue I am facing is that if I push data from google sheet, then I'll manually have to do it everytime. I want that google form to send the data to the sql database directly so that I can manage the data on that which can increase the computational speed.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Currently I am using google sheet to manage the data, which is very slow.
I am trying to create a google sheet that updates and stacks the data from a Salesforce report on a daily basis. I tried to use the Data connector for Salesforce add, it exports the data just fine but when I change the date, it replaces everything it exported the first time. What I wanted it to do is to Extract the data today, store it in the sheet, and Export another time tomorrow adding the data to the existing one. I have no coding knowledge and SQL stuff and I'm trying to learn things to help my work.
Your response is highly appreciated
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 help with scheduling for a post-secondary first aid team. We schedule students 7 days a week from 9am-9pm and 9pm-9am on a google calendar, and we use google sheets to keep track of how many shifts they have done on which day/night.
I was wondering if it would be possible to populate this google sheet, whenever we add a student to the calendar for their shift. So say I add Student A on October 31st (Monday), can I make the process of adding 1 to the total shifts they have done on a monday day automatic? (I have some coding knowledge)
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Yes, it is possible. (I haven't tried it though)
You may use getEvents() methods from Calendar Service to get all events that occur within a given time frame.
Then, as suggested by #teatimer in this SO post, your range has to match the size of the values array in both columns and rows when setting the values on a range.
To help you on the implementation, kindly check these SO posts:
Import google calendar data into existing google spreadsheet
Import Google or iCal calendar data into a google spreadsheet.
You may want to also check this forum and try the given option too.
I have Team of 15 people updating there data of call backs and other info in the Microsoft Excel
Now i want to use Google Sheets for Real time data. So i want all of them to use a Google Sheet and a Team leader should have the updates when ever they are updating the there own sheets. Everyone should have there own passwords to open there but an Admin should have access to all of there data in those sheets. I hope you understood my needs. I know its possible with Google Sheets but i don,t know how to prepare one as am new to this platform.
Please Help.
If you use
=importrange("sheet url", "range you want to import")
on a separate sheet, it will update dynamically as they change things - I have done this specifically with remote employees previously