How to format email from spreadsheet data using arrays?

Question

I am totally new to coding and I need some help on a bit of code. Here is my problem: I want to take many cells of data in a Google spreadsheet and send it in an email. I fi

Answer 1

Your array (called Values) is a 2 dimension array corresponding to a row in your sheet, it means that you have to iterate through its first element. I wrote a small script with a function that composes the message with headers and values like this :

function test(){
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var responses = ss.getSheetByName("Form Responses");
  var lastRow = responses.getLastRow();
  var values = responses.getRange("A"+(lastRow)+":AK"+(lastRow)).getValues();// get the range and values in one step
  var headers = responses.getRange("A1:AK1").getValues();// do the same for headers
  var message = composeMessage(headers,values);// call the function with 2 arrays as arguments
  Logger.log(message);// check the result and then send the email with message as text body
}

function composeMessage(headers,values){
  var message = 'Here are the data :'
  for(var c=0;c

note that you could use the same structure to build an even better looking email in html format using a html table (see reference here)

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EDIT2

I wrote a little piece of code that generates both in text and HTML in a table, feel free to improve HTML formating with colors etc...

function testMail(){
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var responses = ss.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
  var lastRow = responses.getLastRow();
  var values = responses.getRange("A"+(lastRow)+":M"+(lastRow)).getValues();
  var headers = responses.getRange("A1:AK1").getValues();
  var message = composeMessage(headers,values);
  var messageHTML = composeHtmlMsg(headers,values);
  Logger.log(messageHTML);
  MailApp.sendEmail(Session.getEffectiveUser().getEmail(),'test html', message,{'htmlBody':messageHTML});
}

function composeMessage(headers,values){
  var message = 'Here are the data you submitted :\n'
  for(var c=0;c'+values[0][c]+''
  }
  return message+'';
}

EDIT 3

following your comment : here is the log of my test sheet + screen capture. Check your log to see if you get a similar structure with your data.

[13-07-16 14:29:40:920 CEST] Here are the data you submitted :

data
Values
Titre
Mr
nom
Wales
prénom
xavier
adresse
Sunset Bld, 45678
code
5000
ville
Los Angeles
pays
USA
email
john.smith@gmail.com
tél1
1212345654345
tél2
Commun
Théâtre
GROUPE
Festival
organisme
xxx

• "th" is the header tag (between <>, I cannot write it here because the Browser doesn't show it)
• "td" is the cell tag (between <>, I cannot write it here because the Browser doesn't show it)
• "tr" is the "row" tag (between <>, I cannot write it here because the Browser doesn't show it)

Each of these tags must be terminated by a /t... closing tag (with surrounding <>)to be valid. The loop structure in the script takes care of that automatically as you can see in the log data.

Note also that I added a table end tag at the end of the loop... I forgot it in my first code but it worked like that in my tests.