How can i search a google spreadsheet using new api v4.
In the api docs i found find/replace, but it can't find cells, it only replaces cells. So is there any method to find a value in a google spreadsheet other than brute-force method of fetching all data and searching in it?
This is a little bit of a kludge, but I create a cell using the API with this formula to search a specified column in a sheet:
=ADDRESS(MATCH("SEARCHSTRING",A1:A999),2)
This does mean I have to make three different calls (write, read, and clear) and it only works on a single column or row, but I find it useful for large spreadsheets.
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I am making a calculator in Google sheets and I would like to find a formula or script or something that will allow me to read the value of a certain square and add the formula "=sum(C5:C9)" or "=product(C5:C9)" or whichever depending on what the person puts in C4. Not sure if this is possible in google sheets (without custom code), but if it is, that would be great!
try:
=IF(C4="*"; PRODUCT(C5:C9); SUM(C5:C9))
I have a huge year of data and I cannot add it in 1 spreadsheet because of the limitation on the number of cells per workbook/spreadsheet so I separated the huge data into multiple files by month (January, February, March etc).
In my master file/spreadsheet I needed to use a formula to lookup some values from the master spreadsheet and the problem is that the tables to look into are now in multiple monthly spreadsheets. What is the best formula to look up values in multiple spreadsheets?
After googling for a while I don't have much options, I don't even know what the formula is for using Vlookup to find values in a separate spreadsheet instead of another tab. I tried importrange and it seem to still use the limit even though it's in a different spreadsheet I get error when trying to use it because the data is too large.
So you can use IMPORTRANGE to get the columns needed for the vlookup.
=VLOOKUP(D42,IMPORTRANGE("https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/[sheet_id]","Sheet1!D:ZZ"),1,0)
It's not clear if you added the permission needed to access the other workbook when you use IMPORTRANGE
like this
You can also use IMPORTRANGE in the data parameter QUERY(data, query, [headers])
QUERY is awesome when you know your way around SQL. Google Visualization API Query Language
I have a main sheet in witch I copy it and create different versions, kind of like simulating different results.
But every time I want to change something in the main sheet, I have to go in all the other sheets I created and changed.
I don't know if it is possible, but the best way for me would be to create a formula like this:
copyFormula(Sheet1!V2) -> And bringed the exactly same result as if I had gone to Sheet1 copied V2 and pasted it this cell.
I tried to create this formula but failed consistently.
Thanks!!
What you need to do is to manipulate the properties of the sheets.
Here is a reference where you can create those actions.
The Sheets API allows you to create sheets, delete sheets, and control
their properties. The examples on this page illustrate how some common
sheet operations can be achieved with the API.
In these examples, the placeholders spreadsheetId and sheetId are
used to indicate where you would provide those IDs. The spreadsheet
ID can be discovered from the spreadsheet URL; the sheet ID can be
obtained from the spreadsheet.get method.
You can refer to this documentation on how you can read the formula you are needing in the entire sheets.
The Sheets API allows you to read values from cells, ranges, sets of
ranges and entire sheets. The examples on this page illustrate how
some common read operations can be achieved with the
spreadsheets.values collection of this API. You can also read
cell values using the spreadsheets.get method, but in most cases
using spreadsheets.values.get or
spreadsheets.values.batchGet is easier to use.
I'm new to Google sheets, and I've got this spreadsheet with some IMPORTRANGE functions in them, and they look like this:
=IMPORTRANGE($O$2; "Jan!B33")
That first value, $0$2, is supposedly the spreadsheet key, but I'm used to that spreadsheet key coming from the HTML, for example "1QCfFIx6evcghuH4k74_ksqx6P7sb5xzUpRaoQobV6MA", or something like that.
My question is, what is this dollar sign notation, and how do I use it? Is it even something from Google Sheets or is it something someone mistakenly copied from Excel or another program?
That's an absolute cell reference. (The sheet's key is expected to be read from cell O2.)
This range syntax is supported by Excel and Google Sheets.
I'm having some problems with ImportXML in my Google Spreadsheet. I currently have two sheets, each with their own ImportXML, retireving (basically) the same data - the server providing the data has updated their feed service to require the use of a user-specific "key" in the URL to track who is retrieving what. Prior to this change, my ImportXML worked just fine. They are about to turn off the non-key feeds, and my spreadsheets are about to break.
In the first (working) sheet, this is the feed.
I can import the data sucessfully by using the following syntax in cell A1:
=importXML(ʺhttp://atilla.hinttech.nl/fseconomy/xml?id=18649&key=M3LRG43T&query=GroupLogByMonth&month=10ʺ,ʺ//GroupLogByMonthʺ)
In the new (non-working) sheet, the URL to the feed (including my user-specific "keys") is here.
I am unable to create a working importXML on this sheet. None of my attempted Xpath queries worked, except "*"; but that resulted in all elements being lumped into a single cell.
I have shared my spreadsheet file (link is in the comments below - I am unable to post more than 2 links) with each of these sheets so that the above examples can be seen and played with. Any advise on the non-working sheet would be wonderful.
In the new XML feed there is no tag "GroupLogByMonth". This might explain why your Xpath query won't return anything when you look for that.
Did the format of the XML change too, next to the new URL?