I found the script and have successfully copy values from master sheet to another sheet named "Cooked". The trouble is it copies all the data from master sheet, I just want to copy values from specific columns, like column A,C,D,F(Except B&E) and auto arrange to destination sheet.
My coding exp is limited but I'm able to learn(copy) to understand it from you :)
function copyTo(source,destination) {
var sourceSheet = source.getSheet();
var destSheet = destination.getSheet();
var sourceData = source.getValues();
var dest = destSheet.getRange(
destination.getRow(), // Top row of destination
destination.getColumn(), // left col of destination
sourceData.length, // # rows in source
sourceData[0].length); // # cols in source (elements in first row)
dest.setValues(sourceData);
SpreadsheetApp.flush();
}
function copySheet() {
var sourceSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Total");
var destSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Cooked");
var source = sourceSheet.getRange("A:N");
var destination = destSheet.getRange("A:N");
copyTo(source,destination );
}
In your copySheet
function, you can see it takes Range
A:N
for copying. If you change this part, you can copy desired ranges.
As you wanna copy a set of non-contiguous columns, I'd suggest something like this.
function copySheet() {
var sourceSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Total");
var destSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Cooked");
var columns_to_be_copied = ['A', 'C', 'D', 'F'];
var columns_to_be_pasted = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'];
for (column in columns_to_be_copied) {
var copy_range_string = columns_to_be_copied[column] + ':' + columns_to_be_copied[column];
var paste_range_string = columns_to_be_pasted[column] + ':' + columns_to_be_pasted[column];
var source = sourceSheet.getRange(copy_range_string);
var destination = destSheet.getRange(paste_range_string);
copyTo(source,destination );
}
}
We store all columns to be copied in a variable, iterate through them and generate copy_range_strings
and paste_range_strings
of the formant A:A
, C:C
etc. Then call copyTo method on those ranges. Now you can edit columns_to_be_copied
and columns_to_be_pasted
to make changes on data from which column should go to which column
//Copying data from sheet 2 to sheet 1
var sourceSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Sheet2");
var destSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Sheet1");
sourceSheet.getRange("E:G").copyTo(destSheet.getRange("E:G"), {contentsOnly:true});