I am wondering if anyone can help with this. I am creating a merged document using HTTP Post via Infusionsoft from a Google Form Response. The HTTP Post automatically pulls the data from Infusionsoft and posts it to the Google Form which then adds it to a Google sheet. I am then using Autocrat to automatically create a letter.
I have managed to make all this work, however, the one issue that I am having is that some of the form entries are paragraph text (so, for instance, the body of the letter, which has several paragraphs). When I pull this data into the sheet once the HTTP post has fired, the text within that cell separates the paragraphs with <br><br>. So, for example, it would be:
"Paragraph one.<br><br>
Paragraph two.<br><br>" etc.
This then merges into the letter with the <br><br> rather than line breaks.
I want it to appear within the merged letter as:
"Paragraph one.
Paragraph two."
within the cell. Ie with line breaks.
Is this possible? Have found another post with this function, but this is the opposite of what I want to achieve.
function lineBreakTest() {
var cellWithLineBreaks = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange("q3").getValue();
Logger.log(cellWithLineBreaks);
cellWithLineBreaks = cellWithLineBreaks.replace(/\n/g, '<br>');
Logger.log(cellWithLineBreaks);
// Post to your Google Site here. Logger.log is just used to demonstrate.
}
I would also want it to apply to the whole column, so whenever autocrat runs and a new row is added, it would apply the same function.
Would this all happen automatically also?
Any help would be amazing.
see this solution if it fits you:
=ARRAYFORMULA(REGEXREPLACE(A:B, "<br><br>", CHAR(10)&CHAR(10)))
...then you can just hide A:B columns
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I have a Google sheet with multiple sheets.
The Ambassador users sheet has a list of multiple users (ID, Email, Coupon, and three more irrelevant columns).
Each new user is updated to the sheet via Zapier.
I can have three users with coupon 1234, four with ABCD and two with XYZ.
I then create a unique sheet for each type of coupon (also via Zapier) and want to update each sheet only with the users that have the correct coupon for that sheet.
The coupon is also listed in cell J1 on each sheet.
I need the update to happen automatically without pressing any buttons.
I do not know how to use the functions on Google sheets (I understand it's different from VBA), and I though using a function would be the best solution.
I tried using the IF function in conjunction with the INDEX function and it worked, however, it requires me to copy the function into each row, and thus reduces the automation option.
=if('Ambassador users'!$C3=$J$1, index('Ambassador users'!A3:G3),"")
Then I tried to use the IMPORTRANGE function, and this worked, but not in conjunction with the IF
=if('Ambassador users'!$C2=$J$1, importrange("1QHGSCR_pVepNlMtjFshvGnI-vSPzgqi3g9jz98","'Ambassador users'!A2:G11"),"")
This gave me all the rows in the Ambassador users sheet.
I think I'm doing something wrong with the IF statement in the initial range I'm setting is wrong.
I also tried to set a range in the IF, but that totally didn't work.
try like this with ARRAYFORMULA:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF('Ambassador users'!C3:C=J1, 'Ambassador users'!A3:G, ))
or perhaps FILTER:
=FILTER('Ambassador users'!A3:G, 'Ambassador users'!C3:C=J1)
Hi everyone!
I have this template which uses a table and I want that the section "Repeat this section depending on total records" be repeated. The scenario is that a certain person can have multiple entries (which will be placed in the "repeat this section...") and once that is created, I will convert this into a pdf page with breaks.
Is there a way to do this? The result will be something like this
I’m not sure where to start on this project. I know how to read the contents of the excel spreadsheet, I know how to identify the header row, I know how to loop over the contents. I believe I have the UX portion worked out but I am not sure how to process the data.
I’ve googled and only found .Net solutions but I’m looking for a ColdFusion/Lucee solution.
I have a working form allowing me to map a user's spreasheet column to my database values (this is being kept simple for this post; user does not have direct access to the database).
Now that I have my data, I'm not sure how to loop over the data results. I believe there will be several loops (an outer and an inner). Then of course I also need to loop over the file contents but I think if I can get the headings mapped out,I can figure out the remaining.
Any good links, tutorials, or guides would be greatly appreciated.
Some pseudo code might be enough to get me started.
User uploads form
System reads headers and content.
User is presented form with a list of columns from their uploaded spreadsheet to match with available database fields (eg “column1” matches “customer name”.
User submits form.
Now what?
UPDATED
Here is what the data looks like AFTER the mapping has been done in my form. The column deliiter is the ::: and within the column the ||| indicates the ID associated with the selected column value. I've included the id and the column value since I plan on displaying the mapping again as a confirmation. Having the ID saves a trip to the database.
If I understand correctly, your question is: how do you provide the user a form allowing them to map their spreadsheet columns to that of the database
Since you have their spreadsheet column names, and you have the database column names, then this problem is essentially a UI/UX problem. You need to show both lists, and allow the user to map them. I can imagine several approaches to this. My first thought would be some sort of drag/drop operation, as follows:
Create a list of boxes, one for each field in your database table, and include the field name in (or above) the box. I'll call this the db field list. Then, create another list for each column from the spreadsheet, which I'll call the spreadsheet column list. The user would drag/drop items from the spreadsheet column list to the db field list.
When a mapping has been completed by the user, you would store the column/field names in as data for the DOM element of the db field list box. Then upon submission, you would acquire the mapping data by visiting each box and adding it to an array. Then you would serialize that array into JSON and send that to your form submission handler.
This could be difficult or easy, depending on your knowledge of UI implementations using JavaScript. jQuery makes this easy (if you know jQuery). There's even a jquery UI plugin that does this: https://jqueryui.com/droppable/.
A quick search for javascript drag drop would help, and here's a few articles I found:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_draganddrop.asp
https://medium.com/quick-code/simple-javascript-drag-drop-d044d8c5bed5
You would also need to submit the array of mappings using javascript. You could search for that as well, and here's an article I found:
https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/94493/submit-an-array-as-an-html-form-value-using-javascript
We have a ColdFusion based site that involves a large number of 'document authors' that have little or no knowledge of HTML. The 'documents' they create are comprised of HTML stored in a table in the database. They use a CKEDITOR interface. The content that they create is output into specific area of the page. The document frequently has tons of technical terms that readers may not be familiar with that we would like to have tooltips automatically show up for.
I and the other programmer want to have some code insert 'tooltip' code into the page based on a list of words in a table on our SQL server. The 'dictionary' table in our database has a unique ID, the word/phrase we will look for and a corresponding definition that would be displayed in the tooltip.
For instance, one of the word/phrases we will be looking for is 'Scrum Master'. If it occurs in the document area, we need to insert code around the words to create a tooltip. To do that, we need to see if certain conditions exist. Are the words within an anchor tag? If yes, is there already a title value for the tag (title is used to contain the info to be displayed in a tooltip)? If a title tag exists, don't do anything. If the words are not in an anchor tag, then we would put anchor tags around the words along with the title that will contain the definition.
The tooltip code we use is via jQuery (http://jqueryui.com/tooltip/). It is quick and simple to use. We just need to figure out how to use it dynamically based on our dictionary table.
Do you have any suggestions of how to go about this?
I was hoping that jSoup might have a function that I could use, but that doesn't seem to be the right technology for what I want to do, but I could be wrong and I am happy to be corrected!
We have a large number of these documents and so manually inserting and maintaining the tooltip code is just not an option.
Update you content with something like:
strOut = ReplaceList(strIn, ValueList(qryTT.find), ValueList(qryTT.replace));
Since words are delimited by spaces, the qryTT.find needs to have spaces. The replace column is going to need to include some of the original content. You are going to have to be careful with words followed by a comma or a period too.
I would cache the results because I would expect it to be memory intensive.
I am making a web form for people to sign up for an event. I found that I can use Google form and Google spreadsheet for this task, and I started to learn how to use these web applications. I would also like to send the automatic confirmation e-mail to those who have signed up. For this task, I am also looking into the Google Apps Script. As far as I understand, I should define a function to send e-mail in a script in the spreadsheet and trigger this function at 'Form Submission Event'. I would like to identify the e-mail address of a person who signed up from the data he/she submitted, and I would like to include all the submitted data as well as the time stamp in the confirmation e-mail.
My questions are the following.
How can I identify the cell in the spreadsheet into which the value of an input field in the Form is stored?
Or, is there any way that I can read the values of the respective input fields from a Google Apps Script?
I would be glad if you could kindly refer me to an unambiguous API reference related to these questions.
So far I learned about the applications from the help pages provided in Google Drive,
e.g.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview
However, I feel documents there are too concise.
I am learning how to send confirmation e-mail from this Google Apps Script:
FormSubmissionResponseEmail
I could not find a help document that explicitly relates an input field in a Google form and a cell in the Google spreadsheet. From my limited number of experiment cases, it seems that the time stamps are always stored in the first column of the spreadsheet. Is this guaranteed? It seems that 'namedValues' member of the 'Spreadsheet Form Submit Events' class is said to contain "the question names and values from the form submission." (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/understanding_events)
However, when I modified the Google form, the 'namedValues' member still held the elements corresponding to deleted input fields. Is there any way to loop over only those elements in 'namedValues' that corresponds to the fields actually input by a user?
I would also be glad to hear about alternative tools to replace Google form and Google spreadsheet.
This answer applies to the "new Forms", the 2013 version, not "Legacy Forms" which have been discontinued.
How can I identify the cell in the spreadsheet into which the value of
an input field in the Form is stored?
You can identify the column that will collect answers to a form question by the label in row 1. Armed with that knowledge, you can reference the answers by column number in functions such as getRange().
...is there any way that I can read the values of the respective input
fields from a Google Apps Script?
There are multiple ways to reference input values:
As you found in Understanding Events, using a function triggered by Form Submission you can retrieve input values from the event itself. Two options here; you get a set of values in an array, and namedValues that you can reference using the question text as a name.
You can read the data from the spreadsheet; within that same trigger function mentioned earlier, you could use e.range.getValues() to get an array with all the submitted values, which you could then reference by index. Remember that this would be a 0-based array, while the column numbering starts at 1.
From my limited number of experiment cases, it seems that the
timestamps are always stored in the first column of the spreadsheet.
Is this guaranteed?
Unless you modify the spreadsheet, the timestamp will be in the first column. It is possible to insert columns to the left of the data table created by Forms, which will affect where you would find your form results in the sheet (although e.range will adjust). The order of all following values will be the order that the questions were created in the form. Note that if you delete a column (because you removed the question from the form, say), the column for the "deleted" question will be recreated at the end of the row.
...when I modified the Google form, the 'namedValues' member still
held the elements corresponding to deleted input fields. Is there any
way to loop over only those elements in namedValues that corresponds
to the fields actually input by a user?
There are reasons for remembering past questions, although they are just a bother when they weren't used to collect any real data. Better planning can be used to avoid the problem!
Unanswered questions will be empty strings in the event (e.g. e.namedValues["Dead Question"] == ''). So you could skip them like this:
for (var ans in e.namedValues) {
if (e.namedValues[ans] != '') {
doSomethingWith(e.namedValues[ans]
}
}
Note, too, that you can get array of "headers", or the form questions, like this:
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var headers = sheet.getDataRange().getValues()[0];
...and then use a search of headers to find the column containing the answer you're looking for.