Basically it’s a cab society in a game, everyone put how many run they do and the sheet actually keep an idea of how much money we’ve got and how much we’ve spent. I want to, every week, take a “snapshot” of some cell to keep the result on week production into control.
I’m starting to look into google script for a small Sheet that i use for a game buisness(not a real one) and what i want to do is pretty simple, i think, but can’t find how to do.
This might be a stupid question but i’v been looking around for a while now for an answer and i can’t seeem to find quite the answer. Posted on AugMaAuthor Ben Categories Javascript, Spreadsheets Tags Apps Script, Google Sheets Let me know what exciting projects you implement Apps Script triggers in. Var allTriggers = ScriptApp.getProjectTriggers() įor (var i = 0 i Make a copy… and then you can open the script editor to modify the code). Loop over all triggers and delete them So let’s ensure we’ve added a function to delete any triggers in this script: Delete all triggers in the project I woke up to 38 emails from Google notifying me that my script was failing repeatedly… Word of caution: be careful when you’re setting up auto-triggers initially, lest you forget or fail to delete your trigger and you to hit Google’s trigger quotas. This function creates a trigger programmatically that will run the process function every minute, ad infinitum unless we stop it, so we’ll need to delete the trigger (see below). Create a time-based trigger to automatically run the process function If your output involves other columns then you’d want to modify this function to clear out those as well. This is fine for my example because my process function simply writes a number into this column.
I find the number of the last row in my spreadsheet that contains data and then clear out everything in the first column except the header in row 1. Sheet.getRange(2,1,lastRow-1,1).clearContent() clear out the matches and output sheets Var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet() Here I set a variable called loopCounter to 0 and store that in my Properties Service, which allows my script to store key-value pairs for future reference. Var userProperties = PropertiesService.getUserProperties() Saving the counter variable with the Properties Service Let’s look at each of these three steps in turn. The time-based trigger will then run my process function a set number of times until some condition is satisfied.
The code for this goes in your code.gs script file, along with all the code for this example: To run the program, I added a custom menu option: Here’s a screencast of this simple program in action (speeded up):īehind the scenes, everything is running on autopilot once I’ve clicked that first Run button. It’s deliberately basic as the focus is on the trigger/timing architecture.
In this simple example, I’m going to output a random number in a new line of my spreadsheet every minute until I’ve looped through a set number of times (2 in this case). Time-based triggers with Google Apps Script
The entire code file is here on GitHub and the spreadsheet is available here (feel free to make a copy: File > Make a copy… and then you can open the script editor to modify the code). In this post I’m going to show a skeleton example of this time-based architecture, to which you can add your own functionality. Using Google Apps Script, you can add these time-based triggers programmatically, so they can run and stop automatically. To do this and stay within the 6 minute execution limit for Apps Script, I split my data into “blocks” of 10 rows, counted how many blocks I had and then ran the matching algorithm once for each block until they’d all been processed.īy adding time-based triggers, I setup my Google sheet to do this automatically, rather than having me click a button each time. Ever find yourself needing to repeat an action in your Google Sheets?įor example, on a recent client project I wanted to cycle through my spreadsheet data, compare it to another dataset and apply a matching algorithm.