I'm using a Google visualization query to pull column headings from this spreadsheet. Currently I must include the row and column indexes for each cell I want in the menu. What I'd like is a script that'll populate this menu dynamically with data from the cells in row 1 of the spreadsheet. In other words, make the menu as big or as small as what exists on the spreadsheet.
I believe I need something like the following, but I'm unsure how to implement it. Perhaps I need server side script (GAS) to accomplish this??
<select>
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; ++i) {
<option>!= data[i] </option>
}
</select>
I've found plenty of documentation to accomplish this using Google's HTMLService, but I need this menu to be hosted using a different service.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
My current code follows...
google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages':['corechart']});
google.setOnLoadCallback(ValIDS);
function ValIDS() {
var queryValIDS = new google.visualization.Query('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=1HpHMfoEnPgESb2XPVCgb7XyGwRAvrq3EoQj4WHj4vhA&sheet=QUERY2');
queryValIDS.send(handleQueryValIDResponse);
}
function handleQueryValIDResponse(response) {
if (response.isError()) {
alert('Error in ID Validation Query: ' + response.getMessage() + ' ' + response.getDetailedMessage());
return;
}
var datatable = response.getDataTable();
var cat1 = datatable.getValue(0,0);
var cat2 = datatable.getValue(0,1);
var cat3 = datatable.getValue(0,2);
var cat4 = datatable.getValue(0,3);
var cat5 = datatable.getValue(0,4);
var cat6 = datatable.getValue(0,5);
var cat7 = datatable.getValue(0,6);
var cat8 = datatable.getValue(0,7);
var cat9 = datatable.getValue(0,8);
var cat10 = datatable.getValue(0,9);
document.getElementById('cat1').innerHTML = cat1;
document.getElementById('cat2').innerHTML = cat2;
document.getElementById('cat3').innerHTML = cat3;
document.getElementById('cat4').innerHTML = cat4;
document.getElementById('cat5').innerHTML = cat5;
document.getElementById('cat6').innerHTML = cat6;
document.getElementById('cat7').innerHTML = cat7;
document.getElementById('cat8').innerHTML = cat8;
document.getElementById('cat9').innerHTML = cat9;
document.getElementById('cat10').innerHTML = cat10;
}
function myFunction() {
document.getElementById("myDropdown").classList.toggle("show");
}
window.onclick = function(event) {
if (!event.target.matches('.dropbtn')) {
var dropdowns = document.getElementsByClassName("dropdown-content");
var i;
for (i = 0; i < dropdowns.length; i++) {
var openDropdown = dropdowns[i];
if (openDropdown.classList.contains('show')) {
openDropdown.classList.remove('show');
}
}
}
}
.dropbtn {
background-color: #4CAF50;
color: white;
padding: 16px;
font-size: 16px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.dropbtn:hover, .dropbtn:focus {
background-color: #3e8e41;
}
.dropdown {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
}
.dropdown-content {
display: none;
position: absolute;
background-color: #f9f9f9;
min-width: 160px;
overflow: auto;
box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
.dropdown-content a {
color: black;
padding: 12px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}
.dropdown a:hover {background-color: #f1f1f1}
.show {display:block;}
.dropbtn {
background-color: #4CAF50;
color: white;
padding: 16px;
font-size: 16px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.dropbtn:hover, .dropbtn:focus {
background-color: #3e8e41;
}
.dropdown {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
}
.dropdown-content {
display: none;
position: absolute;
background-color: #f9f9f9;
min-width: 160px;
overflow: auto;
box-shadow: 0px 8px 16px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
}
.dropdown-content a {
color: black;
padding: 12px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}
.dropdown a:hover {background-color: #f1f1f1}
.show {display:block;}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<div class="dropdown">
<button onclick="myFunction()" class="dropbtn">Dropdown</button>
<div id="myDropdown" class="dropdown-content">
<a href="#"><div id="cat1"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat2"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat3"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat4"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat5"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat6"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat7"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat8"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat9"></div></a>
<a href="#"><div id="cat10"></div></a>
</div>
</div>
you can use client-side JavaScript to build the drop-down dynamically
using the data from the
datatable
there are a number of ways, but this should accomplish what you need
you can use
getNumberOfColumns
rather than hard-coding each drop-down itemthis will allow additional columns to be added to the spreadsheet,
without having to change the code / html
(i + 1)
was used on theid
above,just so the
id
would be the same as what you had hard-codedsince anchors (
<a>
) are inline elements,a
<span>
was used instead of<div>
you may not even need
id
, or theSPAN
for that matter,since the drop-down items are being created dynamically
see following working snippet...
EDIT
the
getValue
method takes two argumentsgetValue(rowIndex, columnIndex)
both
rowIndex
andcolumnIndex
are zero-based,meaning the first cell value would be
getValue(0, 0)
if you want to pull values from the first column of each row...
use
i
asrowIndex
and0
ascolumnIndex