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Asked: 2026-06-14T20:32:58+00:00

I’ve modified the standard google drive expense report system to use it as a

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I’ve modified the standard google drive expense report system to use it as a competency and experience matrix where the manager can approve/reject a form.
The problem i’m encountering is when a form is rejected by the manager it sends a link back to the employee with a link to a form pre-populated by the url.

However if the employee didn’t enter a value in the original form the url populates it as “undefined”.

Question, can I pre-populate a form via url removing or replacing the “undefined” values?

Perhaps the code will explain better than I can.

+ "<P><b>" + 'Please re-submit your form <a href=' + USER_FORM_URL +
'&entry_2=' + encodeURIComponent(row.forename) + '&entry_3=' +
encodeURIComponent(row.surname) + '>here</a></b>'

Any help would be much appreciated, struggled to find a solution “out there”.

Tom

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like the getObjects() function in the script may skip adding a value to the row object, later used in sendReportToManager(), if the value is empty in the expense report spreadsheet. So, later trying to append something like row.bananas (or something empty in sheet and thus not defined on object) will result in ‘undefined’ being appended to the string instead. If you look at your querystring for the form with the ‘undefined’ values, you should see ‘undefined’ in the url’s querystring.

    You can avoid this by wrapping your encodeURIComponent(row.XXXX) calls for potentially empty columns to be something like this: row.XXXX ? encodeURIComponent(row.XXXX) : ""

    So, replace the likes of:

    + "<P><b>" + 'Please re-submit your form <a href=' + USER_FORM_URL + 
'&entry_2=' + encodeURIComponent(row.forename) + '&entry_3=' +

    with 

    + "<P><b>" + 'Please re-submit your form <a href=' + USER_FORM_URL + 
'&entry_2=' + (row.forename ? encodeURIComponent(row.forename) : "") + '&entry_3=' +
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