Can you count links within a range? - google-sheets

Question

I have many Google sheets that require manually hyperlinking (to specific unique documents) after other users have inserted values, but it is time-consuming to search through many sheets for cells yet to be linked. A basic solution would be to use COUNTA to get the number of cells within a range containing text, and a second function to count the number of links, showing the difference. I've tried many permutations of COUNTA and COUNTIF using wildcards but nothing seems to be able to recognise formulas. Is there a function within Google Sheets of getting the number of hyperlinked cells within a range?

Answer 1

If you are referring to urls in cells (like: www.google.com), you can try:
=SUM(ArrayFormula(N(ISURL(A3:A))))
Change range to suit.
This will not work if you are using =HYPERLINK() function.
EDIT: If you want to count the cells with text, but exclude the =Hyperlink() formulas (AND empty cells) you can try this custom function:
function countF(range) {
var r = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getRange(range),
formulas = r.getFormulas(),
count = 0;
r.getValues()
.forEach(function (r, i) {
r.forEach(function (c, j) {
if (c && formulas[i][j].substring(1, 10) !== "HYPERLINK") count += 1;
})
})
return count;
}
This custom function can be used in your spreadsheet by entering
=COUNTCELLS("Sheet1!A1:A2")
If you want to exclude all formulas from your count, change the if-statement to:
if (c && !formulas[i][j]) count +=1
Make sure you always mention the sheet name.
EDIT2: to count the number of formulas, you can try something like this:
function countFormulas(range) {
var count = 0;
SpreadsheetApp.getActive()
.getRange(range).getFormulas()
.forEach(function(r) {
r.forEach(function(c) {
if (c.charAt(0) == '=') count += 1;
})
})
return count;
}

Answer 2

I suggest the following. The formula assumes the cells to check for Hyperlinks are in column A with header (adjust formula to your need). Select A2. Right click and select Conditional Formatting. Enter the following:
Apply to range
A2:A
Format cells if
Choose 'Custom formula is' from dropdown list and enter:
=AND(NOT(ISFORMULA(A2)),NOT(ISBLANK(A2)))
Choose the formatting style you want.
This will format and non blank cell not containing a formula. (No Hyperlink)
Two other options to get just a count:
In a column, lets say B enter the following formula(Note that ISFORMULA does not work in array formulas like ISBLANK does.) Copy the formula down. It will return FALSE if there is a Hyperlink and TRUE if there is not.
=NOT(ISFORMULA(A2))
Then to count use:
=countifs(B2:B,"TRUE",B2:B,"<>''")
The other option is script:
function noFormula() {
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
var s = ss.getSheets()[0];// [0] is Sheet1
var lr=s.getLastRow()
var rng =s.getRange(2, 1, lr-1, 1) //get column A data. Assumes header row.
var data=rng.getFormulas()
count=0
for(i=0;i<data.length;i++){
var hasFormula=data[i][0]
var eqSign=hasFormula.substring(0,1) //looks for first character "=". If there are formulas other than Hyperlinks change to substring(0,2) to look for "=H".
if(eqSign !="="){ //Not equal to"="
count = count+1
}}
var c=s.getRange(1,2).setValue(count)//Sheet1 B1
}