Question

I’m trying to create a function to pull data from google finance and have it automatically log data to multiple sheets of a document. I can’t seem to get it to add a function as a function it always adds it as text until i edit the cell

function addLog() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
  var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
  var numLastRows = rows.getLastRow();

  sheet.appendRow(['2012/10/28','=b92','=c92','Log (auto)','','=index(GoogleFinance(C92,"price",A92);2;2)','','=h92','=i92','=j92','=k92']);


};

i couldn’t figure out how to make it reference the cell above (row 92 in this case) either 🙁

Answer 1

You will need to use the setFormula() method rather than appendRow(). Perhaps something like:

function addLog() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var numLastRow = sheet.getLastRow();

  //add a row at end if necessary
  if (sheet.getMaxRows() == numLastRow) sheet.insertRowAfter(numLastRow);

  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 2, 1, 10)
    .setFormulas([['=b' + numLastRow,
                  '=c' + numLastRow,
                  '',
                  '',
                  '=index(GoogleFinance(C' + numLastRow + ',"price",A' + numLastRow + ');2;2)',
                  '',
                  '=h' + numLastRow,
                  '=i' + numLastRow,
                  '=j' + numLastRow,
                  '=k' + numLastRow]]);
  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 1).setValue('2012/10/28');
  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 4).setValue('Log (auto)');
}

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To perform this action from the xth sheet through to the yth sheet (using zero-based index), I think the most efficient way would be:

function addAllLog() {
  var sheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheets();
  var x = 1;
  var y = 34;
  for (var i = x; i <= y; i++) {
    addLog(sheets[i]);
  }
}

function addLog(sheet) {
  var numLastRow = sheet.getLastRow();

  //add a row at end if necessary
  if (sheet.getMaxRows() == numLastRow) sheet.insertRowAfter(numLastRow);

  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 2, 1, 10)
    .setFormulas([['=b' + numLastRow,
                  '=c' + numLastRow,
                  '',
                  '',
                  '=index(GoogleFinance(C' + numLastRow + ',"price",A' + numLastRow + ');2;2)',
                  '',
                  '=h' + numLastRow,
                  '=i' + numLastRow,
                  '=j' + numLastRow,
                  '=k' + numLastRow]]);
  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 1).setValue('2012/10/28');
  sheet.getRange(numLastRow + 1, 4).setValue('Log (auto)');
}