Find Cell Matching Value And Return Rownumber

Question

The employee sheet contains the name of the employee in cell C2. The name of the employee should also be on the data sheet in the range B3:B153.

How can I get the ro

Answer 1

Here the code

function rowOfEmployee(){
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
  var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
  var employeeName = sheet.getRange("C2").getValue();
  for(var i = 0; i

When you want to perform this kind of lookup it is better to retrieve data with sheet.getDataRange().getValues() because in this case you will get data as a table of values this is faster. When you use the standard EmployeeSheet.getRange(2,3,1,1).getValue() in fact you retrieve an object which need more time to be processed and each time you query the spreadsheet.

In my exemple I made only one query to retrieve all data instead n query to retrieve one data each time.

Stéphane