Google Script: Conditionally copy rows from one spreadsheet to another

Question

I\'ve found the basic solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/4809413/1438650 but it lacks both the conditional and non-contiguous aspects of my project. I need the the copy to

Answer 1

Here are some tips for you:

• Get a range that includes the entire row, and then call getValues() to get all the values at once, instead of one at a time like you are doing now.
• Wrap an if() statement around your appendRow() call, using the condition you want to test for.
• It's OK to have you appendRow(), since there is no method to append multiple rows at once.

Answer 2

Here is a script "proposal" you could complete to make it work. The 'if' statement needs to be implemented, I couldn't do it without knowing exactly what you needed. The general idea of using arrays it there, I'm sure you'll manage to make it work.

function movePros() {
  var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date, "CST", "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'")            //"MM/dd/yyyy"
  var source = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var target = SpreadsheetApp.openById("0ApBdJlRcFy9XdGx0aXRabWlweGxyY3czZzZIemVla3c");
  var lastRow = source.getLastRow();
  var sheet = source.getSheetByName("City");
  var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
  var prospect=['ODM','DateCalled','PriceSurvey','VolSurvey','Company','Phone','Contact','OdmNotes','Address','City,State','Zip','County','Sic']
  var line = new Array();
  var targetArray= new Array();
  targetArray.push(prospect);// create a header on first row of target
  for(i=0;i<data.length;++i){ // iterate rows
  for (j=0;j<data[i].length;++j){ // iterate columns
  if (place here your conditions if data must be copied or not, you can have many conditions alltogether){line.push(data[i][j]}// if cell meets condition, add to destination row
  }
  targetArray.push(line)// add row to destination (you could need to add a condition here too)
  }
target.getRange(1,1,targetArray.length,targetArray[0].length).setValues(targetArray);
} 

remark : data[i] is a row of your source sheet, data[i][j] is a cell in this row, from there you can adress any cell in any row. One usually do that in a for loop but you could do it without looping in each row to get the data you want.

Edit#1: your condition to copy non contiguous data could be something like this :

  if (j==5||j==7||j==9){line.push(data[i][j])}

sorry for being a bit long. Edit#2 : looking at your target doc I noticed that you have multiple sheets in it, you should also tell the script on which sheet it should write data. Here is an example of how to do it :

  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("your spreadsheet ID");// this is already done in your script
  SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSpreadsheet(ss);
  var sh = SpreadsheetApp.setActiveSheet(ss.getSheets()[0]);// select first sheet in target spreadsheet 

Answer 3

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This is my Coding, I think this would help you.

function GetData() {
  var source = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var target = SpreadsheetApp.openById("0Aj7gIt4f65xidEN1R1lxZksxeFRBYkdHWmVtdE5aOGc");
  var lastRow = source.getLastRow();
  var source_sheet = source.getSheetByName("Source");
  var target_sheet = target.getSheetByName("Target");

  var source_range = source_sheet.getDataRange();
  var target_range = target_sheet.getDataRange();

  var i = 2;
  while (i <= lastRow) {
  if (source_sheet.getRange("D"+i).getValue() == "Over Due" ) {
    var ItemNo = source_sheet.getRange("A"+i).getValue();
    var UserName = source_sheet.getRange("B"+i).getValue();
    var Location = source_sheet.getRange("C"+i).getValue();
    var Status = source_sheet.getRange("D"+i).getValue();
    var Comments = source_sheet.getRange("E"+i).getValue();
    var data = [ItemNo,UserName,Location,Status,Comments];
    target_sheet.appendRow(data);
    i++;
    } else {
      i++;
      }
    }
  }