Google App Script / Spreadsheet - How to get filter criteria?

Question

Is it possible to get the filter criteria of my data set. For example, if one of my column is \"Department\" and I filtered the data to display only \"IT\". How do we get th

Answer 1

Filters are now available using with the recent launch of the Advanced Sheets Service: Here is a link to the article

Here is a little snippet of how to do :

function setSheetBasicFilter(ssId, BasicFilterSettings) {
  //requests is an array of batchrequests, here we only use setBasicFilter
  var requests = [
    {
      "setBasicFilter": {
        "filter": BasicFilterSettings
      }
    }
  ];
  Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate({'requests': requests}, ssId);
}