I have been trying to retrofit an old code I have used to send emails before to send an email when the formula solution in a cell equals today's date in another cell.
Here is my code:
function sendtest(e) {
var ss = e.source;
var s = ss.getSheetByName("Test");
var r = e.range;
// Below is the line that selects what column to use for the send date
var actionCol = 2;
var colIndex = r.getColumnIndex();
// Testing if statement
if (e.value == s.getRange(2, 3).getValue () && colIndex == actionCol) {
// All rows below are used to send the email
var row = r.getRowIndex();
// This takes the email addresses in column D
var userEmail = s.getRange(row, 4).getValue ();
//The subject line of the email
var subject = "Test test " + s.getRange(row, 1).getValue ();
//The structure of the body of the email
var body = "It has been two weeks since test test, " + s.getRange(row, 1).getValue ();
body +="\n\ntest test?";
body +="\n\ntest test,";
body +="\n\ntest test";
// This line sends the email
MailApp.sendEmail(userEmail,subject,body);
}
}
EDIT: Sorry I forgot to state what is going wrong. Every time I attempt to trigger this script (time based), I get an error telling me that line 3 (get sheet by name) is undefined.
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I have a spreadsheet for recording customer samples. A column [I] is used to calculate when the original entry date is over a certain period which then displays an overdue message using an if statement. I want to trigger a script to check this column daily and if 'overdue' is found to send an email to an address contained in another column [C]. I am also using another column [J] to return a message when an email has been sent. I am using the script below but am returning errors
The script marks all rows in column J with the sent email message
I appear to be collecting a bigger array of data have needed [adding two rows the the bottom]
Anyone any ideas?
//Setup the function
function autoMail () {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); //Get the active spreadsheet
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName( 'TS_Requests' ); //Get the active spread
var startRow = 3; // Start of row that going to be process considering row 2 is header
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow(); // Get the last row of data to be process
var lastColumn = sheet.getLastColumn(); // Get the last column of data to be process
var range = sheet.getRange(startRow,1,lastRow,lastColumn); //Getting the specific cell to be process
var data = range.getValues(); // Get the values inside the cell
for(var i=0;i<data.length;++i){
var row = data[i];
var email = row[2]; // Grab the email column. C in this case
var customer = row[3]; // Grab data for Email body
var item = row[5]; // Grab data for Email body
var description = row[6]; // Grab data for Email body
var status = row[8]; // Grab the column containing the value needed to be checked.
var EmailSent = row[9]
if (EmailSent != 'Email_Sent') { //Prevents e-mail being sent in duplicate
if(valstatus ='Overdue'){ // Check the values, if it's what's needed, do something
MailApp.sendEmail(email, 'Your sample request is overdue', customer + ' - ' + item + ' - ' + description); // if condition is met, send email
sheet.getRange(startRow + i, 10).setValue('Email_Sent');
}
}
}
}
I currently have this script working so that when the last row is edited it sends an email with the contents of the first two columns from that row. My issue is that if info is entered into any column of the last row then a blank email gets sent. I've tried a combination of if statements to get the result I want but either end up with the script working as it currently is, or not working at all.
// This function grabs the last row of a inventory sheet and sends the updated range to a specified recipient using a onEdit trigger
function sendEmails() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
// If edit is not made on "Iventory" sheet then function does not proceed
if (sheet.getSheetName() != "Inventory") return;
// Get last row of sheet
var lastRow = sheet.getLastRow();
// Get range of last row
var lastCell = sheet.getRange(lastRow, 1, 1, 2);
// Fetch values for each row in the Range.
var data = lastCell.getValues();
//empty string
var message =""
//Loop through each row and form CSV data
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var row = data[i];
message = message + row[0] + "-" +row[1] + "\n";
}
// Send one email with all the rows
var subject = "Inventory update";
MailApp.sendEmail("test#test.com", subject, message);
}
try this:
var send=true;
for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++) {
var row = data[i];
message = message + row[0] + "-" +row[1] + "\n";
if(!row[0] || !row[1]){
send=false;
break;
}
}
// Send one email with all the rows
var subject = "Inventory update";
if(send){
MailApp.sendEmail("test#test.com", subject, message);
}
I am relatively new to programming, and have recently been working on a script to send emails from a google spreadsheet when a cell in a certain column is changed. The recipient is assigned based off of an email address in another column in the same row as the change. I am having difficulty getting my code to stop running after the first email. As it is, the script runs indefinitely (at least until I run out of emails for the day).
Here is the code:
function sendNotification() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
//Get Active cell
var mycell = sheet.getActiveSelection();
var cellcol = mycell.getColumn();
var cellrow = mycell.getRow();
var address = sheet.getRange("C" + cellrow).getValue();
var streetAddress = sheet.getRange("F" + cellrow).getValue();
var startRow = 2;
var numRows = 2000;
// Fetch the range of cells A2:O2000
var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 15)
// Fetch values for each row in the Range.
var data = dataRange.getValues();
for (i in data) {
var row = data[i];
var emailAddress = address; // First column
var message = streetAddress +" Has been Submitted for permitting!"; // Second column
var subject = "The above Address has been Submitted For Permitting! We will Follow up with you when it has been approved.";
//Check to see if column is H to trigger
if (cellcol == 8 && sheet.getName() == "Sheet1" && mycell !== "")
{
//Send the Email
MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, message, subject);
}
//End sendNotification
}
}
What can I do to resolve this? Would a loop be the best option? How would I implement this?
How about this approach?
var EMAIL_SENT = "EMAIL_SENT";
function onEdit(e) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var mycell = e.range;
var cellcol = mycell.getColumn();
var cellrow = mycell.getRow();
var emailAddress = sheet.getRange("C" + cellrow).getValue();
var streetAddress = sheet.getRange("F" + cellrow).getValue();
var subject = "The above Address has been Submitted For Permitting! We will follow up with you when it has been approved."
// Fetch values for each row in the Range
var message = streetAddress +" Has been Submitted for permitting!";
var emailSent = sheet.getRange("O" + cellrow).getValue();
if ( cellcol == 8 && sheet.getName() == "Sheet1" && emailSent != EMAIL_SENT) { // Prevents sending duplicates
MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message);
sheet.getRange(cellrow, 15).setValue(EMAIL_SENT);
// Make sure the cell is updated right away in case the script is interrupted
SpreadsheetApp.flush();
}
}
If you use the onEdit() the function will be triggered every time you edit the cell. Is this what you want?
What I assume you're looking for is a script that:
Reads every row of the active sheet
If the 8th column is not empty, sends an e-mail to the address in the first column
The whole script is trigger upon the user requests (not when the user edits a cell)
In this case the first approach is better, the sendNotification(). Also a loop is necessary to read all the rows. And the IF statement should be something like if (row[8] != "") then send the e-mail.
In this case row which was defined as row = data[i] in your first script will have the values of all the cells in the row being read in the loop. So row[8] will have the value of the 8th (column H), which you want to check for emptiness, thus if(row[8] != "").
Also, if I understand correctly the e-mail adress should be emailAddress = row[1] inside the loop, because the email address is different every row.
Your second approach var EMAIL_SENT = "EMAIL_SENT"; is almost similar to the simple extension of the code that sets the cells in a column to 'EMAIL_SENT' for each row after sendEmail is called given in Section 2: Improvements. Within tutorial, each cell was marked in each row every time an email is sent. With that, you should mark edited cells as unsent then you will be able to re-run the script later on, avoid sending email duplicates and will only send the edited cells.
To make your code more efficient and help you improve the performance of your scripts, there are also list of best practices given.
I've created a form using google drive.
In order to provide to answerers a summary of what they wrote I would like to send an email to each of them, using the email they insert in the form.
I think it is possible to do this installing a script in the spreadsheet of the form result that send an email every time a new row is recorded.
I've found (on this forum) the following script that is, unfortunately, an email alert with a modify in a certain spreadsheet.
function sendNotification() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var cell = ss.getActiveCell().getA1Notation();
var row = sheet.getActiveRange().getRow();
var cellvalue = ss.getActiveCell().getValue().toString();
var recipients = "me#gmail.com";
var message = '';
if(cell.indexOf('G')!=-1){
message = sheet.getRange('D'+ sheet.getActiveCell().getRowIndex()).getValue()
}
var subject = 'Update to '+sheet.getName();
var body = sheet.getName() + ' has been updated. Visit ' + ss.getUrl() + ' to view the changes on row: «' + row + '». New comment: «' + cellvalue + '». For message: «' + message + '»';
MailApp.sendEmail(recipients, subject, body);
};
And here is the help I need. The script sends an email to a single predefined address. Is it possible to let the script take the recipient email from a certain cell in the relevant row (for example the email is recorded in the col C of the spreadsheet) and send him a message that contains some text taken by other cells of the same row ( for example col D and E)?
Using the variables you defined in your code (sheet, row):
//returns email address in column C
var recipient = sheet.getRange(row, 3).getValue();
//returns values in column D and E
var info1 = sheet.getRange(row, 4).getValue();
var info2 = sheet.getRange(row, 5).getValue();
Please be aware that this is an 'expensive' way to get the values and you would better served getting all values as an array in one call and then referencing them by index, as below.
//get all required values in one call
var values = sheet.getRange(row, 3, 1, 3).getValues();
//define variables using array index
var recipients = values[0];
var info1 = values[1];
var info2 = values[2];
I found the following script to insert form submission values into a google spreadsheet.
function doPost(e) { // change to doPost(e) if you are recieving POST data
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById(ScriptProperties.getProperty('active'));
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("DATA");
var headers = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn()).getValues()[0]; //read headers
var headers2 = sheet.getRange(2, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn()).getValues()[0]; //read headers
var nextRow = sheet.getLastRow(); // get next row
var cell = sheet.getRange('a1');
var col = 0;
for (i in headers2){ // loop through the headers and if a parameter name matches the header name insert the value
if (headers2[i] == "Timestamp"){
val = new Date();
} else {
val = e.parameter[headers2[i]];
}
cell.offset(nextRow, col).setValue(val);
col++;
}
//http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/apps-script/thread?tid=04d9d3d4922b8bfb&hl=en
var app = UiApp.createApplication(); // included this part for debugging so you can see what data is coming in
var panel = app.createVerticalPanel();
for( p in e.parameters){
panel.add(app.createLabel(p +" "+e.parameters[p]));
}
app.add(panel);
return app;
}
//http://www.google.sc/support/forum/p/apps-script/thread?tid=345591f349a25cb4&hl=en
function setUp() {
ScriptProperties.setProperty('active', SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId());
}
Now I want to send a formatted email to two of my coworkers every time a row gets inserted. I tried to use:
var emailAddress = "email#gmail.com"; // First column
var message = "message"; // Second column
var subject = "Sending emails from a Spreadsheet";
MailApp.sendEmail(emailAddress, subject, message);
but it's not sending anything.. can anyone advise please?
I had the same trouble.
With the most recent version of Google Apps I had to save the script, create a new revision, and re-publish the script making sure to select the new revision. After this the new code was in effect. I wasted several hours in the belief that the script would be updated if I just saved it.
Somehow the new method saves the script elsewhere. It's almost impossible to tell what code is actually running unless you go through the process of saving a revision, and re-publishing.