I am pretty new to Google Apps Script, so please bear with me.
I am collecting daily interest rates from a bank on Google Sheets, and I am using the following code to append new rows for the rates contained in A5:F5, with column A containing dates.
function recordHistory() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Interest Rates");
var source = sheet.getRange("A5:F5");
var values = source.getValues();
values[0][0] = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT+10:00", "yyyy-MM-dd");
sheet.appendRow(values[0]);
};
My issue is this - although I have specified the date format to be "yyyy-MM-dd" the dates in column A in my new rows are created in this format "M/dd/yyyy".
I have tried pre-formatting entire column A with "yyyy-MM-dd" using the drop down Format menu in Google Sheets, but if I run the code above my new row is still in "M/dd/yyyy".
It's as if my code ignores Utilities.formatDate completely. FYI I got the above code from here.
The Utilities.formatDate() utility formats a javascript String. However, when written out to the spreadsheet, the new row of data is interpreted by Google Sheets to determine data types and appropriate formatting, just as if you'd typed it in through the user interface.
Since you've got a recognizable date string, Google Sheets decides it's a Date, stores it as such, and applies the default date format.
You've got two options for making the date in the spreadsheet meet your formatting needs.
Force it to be interpreted as a String, even if it does look like a date.
cell.setValue(Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT+10:00", "''yyyy-MM-dd"));
// ^^ force string literal
Set the date format for the cell. This will leave the value of the cell as a date, which is useful for calculations.
Date formats follow the SimpleDateFormat specification.
// Cell A1 contains a date
var cell = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange("A1");
cell.setNumberFormat('yyyy-mm-dd');
Solution :
values[0][0] = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(),
"GMT+10:00", "yyyy-MM-dd").setNumberFormat('yyyy-mm-dd');
Related
I text based .csv file with a semicolon separated data set which contains date values that look like this
22.07.2020
22.07.2020
17.07.2020
09.07.2020
30.06.2020
When I go to Format>number> I see the Google sheets has automatic set.
In this state I cannot use and formulas with this data.
I go to Format>number> and set this to date but formulas still do not see the actual date value and continue to display an error
Can someone share how I can quickly activate the values of this array so formulas will work against them?
I would be super thankful
Where the date are in column A, starting in cell A1, this formula will convert to DATE as a number, after which you apply formatting to Short Date style.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A1:A="",,DATE(RIGHT(A1:A,4),MID(A1:A,4,2),LEFT(A1:A,2))))
Hopefully(!) the dates stay as text, otherwise Google Sheets would sometimes detect MM/dd/yyyy instead of dd/MM/yyyy, and you won't be able to distinguish between July 9th and September 7th in your example.
Solution #1
If your locale is for instance FR, you can then apply
=arrayformula(if(A1:A="";;value(A1:A)))
solution#2
you can try/adapt
function importCsvFromIdv1() {
var id = 'the id of the csv file';
var csv = DriveApp.getFileById(id).getBlob().getDataAsString();
var csvData = Utilities.parseCsv(csv);
csvData.forEach(function(row){
date = row[0]
row[0] = date.substring(6,10)+'-'+date.substring(3,5)+'-'+date.substring(0,2)
})
var f = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getActiveSheet();
f.getRange(1, 1, csvData.length, csvData[0].length).setValues(csvData);
}
First thanks to those that suggested a fix. I am not really a programmer and get cold sweats when I see suggesting of running scripts to solve simple problems. Sorry guys.
So the (non programmer) solution with the dates was to do a find/replace (CTRL + H) and replace all the (.)dots with (/)slashes, then to make sure the column is formatted as a date, then Google finally understands it as a date.
With the accounting values as well, I had to do the same find/replace to remove all the ' between thousands, then google woke up and understood them as numbers.
I am significantly underwhelmed by this from Google. They are getting too fat and lazy. They need some competition.
Hello I am trying to set a date into Google Doc's document header. Now, here is the code I got so far but it won't change the current date inside my document's header as I close the document and re-open it any ideas what might be wrong with this code? on the document this is how I have my date: "Daily Report of: 10-19-20"
function onOpen() {
var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT", "MM-dd-yyyy");
var pattern = "\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}";
var header = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getHeader();
header.editAsText().replaceText(pattern, date);
}
Also please note that I do have a date in this format inside my header: 15-10-2020. But this should update to give me today's date. However, that's not happening.
Thanks
It is not happening because on your pattern you are looking for a date like 18.10.2020
Instead of using your pattern with . change it to be with -:
var pattern = "\\b\\d{2}\\-\\d{2}\\-\\d{4}\\b";
Also, I would recommend running the script from the Script editor the first time and checking if it works, then doing it by closing and re-opening the document.
I believe your goal as follows.
You want to update the text of 15-10-2020 at the header using var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT-6", "dd-MM-yyyy") in Google Document using Google Apps Script.
In this case, I would like to propose to modify the value of pattern as follows.
Modified script:
Please modify as follows and test it again.
From:
var pattern = "\\b\\d{2}\\.\\d{2}\\.\\d{4}\\b";
To:
var pattern = "\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}";
Added:
From your updated question, it was found that your value on Google Document was Daily Report of: 10-19-20. In this case, how about the following modification?
From:
var pattern = "\\b\\d{2}\\.\\d{2}\\.\\d{4}\\b";
To:
var pattern = "\\d{1,2}-\\d{1,2}-\\d{2,4}";
By this modification, the values of 10-19-20 and 10-19-2020 can be updated.
I'm currently working with embarcadero c++, this is the first time I'm working with it so it's completely new to me.
What I'm trying to achieve is to get the current date, make sure the date has the "dd/MM/yyyy" format. When I'm sure this is the case I want to add a month to the current date.
So let's say the current date is 08/18/2016 this has to be changed to 18/08/2016 and then the end result should be 18/09/2016.
I've found that there is a method for this in embarcardero however I'm not sure how to use this.
currently I've only been able to get the current date like this.
TDateTime currentDate = Date();
I hope someone will be able to help me out here.
I figured it out.
After I've searched some more I found the way to use the IncMonth method on this page.
The example given my problem is as follows:
void __fastcall TForm1::edtMonthsExit(TObject *Sender)
{
TDateTime StartDate = edtStartDate->Text;
int Months = edtMonths->Text.ToInt();
TDateTime NextPeriod = IncMonth(StartDate, Months);
edtNextPeriod->Text = NextPeriod;
}
After looking at I changed my code accordingly to this
TDateTime CurrentDate = Date();
TDateTime EndDate = IncMonth(CurrentDate, 1);
A date object doesn't have a format like "dd/MM/yyyy". A date object is internally simply represented as a number (or possibly some other form of representation that really isn't your problem or responsibility).
So you don't have to check if it's in this format because no date objects will ever be in this format, they simply don't have a format.
You will have to do additions/subtractions on the Date object that the language or library gives you, THEN (optionally) you can format it to a human-readable string so it looks like 18/08/2016 or 18th of August 2016 or whatever other readable format that you choose.
It might be that the TRANSFER of a date between 2 systems is in a similar format, but then formatting the date like that is entirely up to you.
As for how to do that, the link you posted seems like a possible way (or alternatively http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Berlin/en/System.SysUtils.IncMonth), I'm afraid I can't give you an example as I'm not familiar with the tool/language involved, I'm just speaking generically about Date manipulations and they should ALWAYS be on the raw object.
I am using Google Script to export some calendar events to a spreadsheet; the relevant portion of my script is below:
var details=[[mycal,events[i].getTitle(), events[i].getDescription(), events[i].getLocation(), events[i].getStartTime(), myformula_placeholder, ('')]];
var range=sheet.getRange(row,1,1,7);
range.setValues(details);
This code works but the "time" that is put into the spreadsheet is a real number of the form nnnnn.nn. On the spreadsheet itself the date looks great using the integer to the left of the decimal (eg 10/15/2017) but the decimals are part of the value and therefore are part of the spreadsheet value.
My script drops the data into a sheet in my workbook, and another sheet reads the rows of data with the above date types, looking for specific date info from the other sheet using the match function (for today()). That would work fine if I could get rid of the decimals.
How can I use what I have above (if I stray far from what I have found works I will be redoing hours of work) but adding just what is needed to only put into the output spreadsheet the whole number portion so I have a pure date that will be found nicely by my match function using today()?
I have been digging, but errors abound in trying to put it all together. "Parse" looked like a good hope, but it failed as the validation did not like parse used within getStartTime. Maybe I used it in the wrong manner.
Help would be appreciated greatly.
According to the CalendarApp documentation, getStartTime() generates a Date object. You should be able to extract the date and time separately from the date object:
var eventStart = events[i].getStartTime(); // Returns date object
var startDate = eventStart.toDateString(); // Returns date portion as a string
var startTime = eventStart.toTimeString(); // Returns time portion as a string
You could then write one or both of these to your spreadsheet. See the w3schools Javascript Date Reference for more information:
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
If you If you want to specify the string format, you can try formatDate in the Utilities service:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/utilities/utilities#formatdatedate-timezone-format
You could just use the Math.floor() function
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_floor.asp
which will round the real number to an integer. Your line would then read:
var details=[[mycal,events[i].getTitle(), events[i].getDescription(), events[i].getLocation(), Math.floor(events[i].getStartTime()), myformula_placeholder, ('')]];
I use a date picker that saves the date in a yyyy-mm-dd format in a database. It then automatically adds time that always appears as 00:00:00. So for example it displays the date like this : 2014-12-14 00:00:00. I want it to display just the date in a mm-dd-yyyy format.
I use the code below but something seems to be wrong with it because it simply doesn't change the way it is displayed. I want to split up each of the values, then display only the date in a different format.
var parts = value.split("/");
return parts[1] + "-" +parts[2] + "-" +parts[0];
What can I do to make it work? Javascript please.
Thanks in advance.
It's a wide variety of solutions. Depends on you server-side settings too, but I will assume, that you use common for most websites MySQL DB and PHP.
You can change you column type to DATE. As said in docs:
The DATE type is used for values with a date part but no time part.
MySQL retrieves and displays DATE values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format. The
supported range is '1000-01-01' to '9999-12-31'.
You can change your column type to VARCHAR and store a date in any format you like when INSERT it
You can convert it to proper format using MySQL built-in DATE_FORMAT()
SELECT DATE_FORMAT('2014-12-14 00:00:00', '%c-%e-%Y');
will give you 12-14-2014. Here is sqlfiddle,
just change first param to your column name in query
On server you can use PHP's date() function like this
$yourdate = '2014-12-14 00:00:00';
echo date("m-d-Y", strtotime($yourdate));
Closer to your question, how to do it in JS? It also has special object for this: Date(). Put your date in constructor, then use methods:
var yourdate = new Date('2014-12-14 00:00:00');
alert(yourdate.getMonth() + "-" + yourdate.getDate() + "-" + yourdate.getFullYear());
JSFiddle < - here
So, as far as almost every platform understands this datetime format - you can use any tool for converting it