使用Sheets API和GAS删除无效的命名范围

Question

Here is my function:

function deleteNamedRangeWithREF() {
   var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
   var spreadsheetId = ss.getId();
   var spreadsheetObject = Sheets.Spreadsheets.get(spreadsheetId);
   var namedRanges = spreadsheetObject.namedRanges;
   Logger.log(namedRanges);
   var namedRangesRef = [];
   for(var i = 0; i < namedRanges.length; i++)
   {
     if((namedRanges[i].range.endColumnIndex - namedRanges[i].range.startColumnIndex) <= 0 || (namedRanges[i].range.endRowIndex - namedRanges[i].range.startRowIndex) <= 0)
       namedRangesRef.push(namedRanges[i].namedRangeId);
   }
   var BUrequest = Sheets.newBatchUpdateSpreadsheetRequest();
   BUrequest.requests = [];
   for(var i = 0; i < namedRangesRef.length; i++)
   {
     var request = {
                     deleteNamedRange: {
                       namedRangeId: namedRangesRef[i]
                     }
     }
     BUrequest.requests.push(request)
   }
   if (BUrequest.requests.length)
     Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate(BUrequest, spreadsheetId);
}

I'm using sheets API to delete bad #REF named ranges.

When coding this, this worked, but now looks like it's broken.

You can see by yourself @ Logger.log(namedRanges); all listed named ranges are valid, it doesn't retrieve the #REF named ranges.

Did google changed something, is there an alternative?

Answer 1

At first, I have to apologize and modify my comments in your question. At Sheets API, when there is no value of object, the property is not created. For example, sheetId of gid=0 is not shown in the range object. (But I'm not sure whether it occurs at all response patterns of Sheets API.) About this, I had forgot it. I have to apologize for this situation.

By considering above situation, I investigated your sample Spreadsheet. As the results, it was found as follows.

1. NamedRange with PlageNommée1 could be retrieved by Sheets API. In this case, although the range is included as the grid range, sheetId is not included in the range object because the sheet ID is 0 .
2. NamedRange with PlageNommée2 couldn't be retrieved by Sheets API. In this case, the range object related to PlageNommée2 couldn't be retrieved, although sheetId of PlageNommée2 is not 0 .
   • I think that when the grid range is #REF! , Sheets API might use this as no namedRange.

From above situation, I thought that Spreadsheet Service instead of Sheets API might be able to retrieve values. So I tested this. The sample script using Spreadsheet Service is as follows.

Sample script:

var id = "### spreadsheetId ###"; // Please set this.
var namedRanges = SpreadsheetApp.openById(id).getNamedRanges();
for (var i = 0; i < namedRanges.length; i++) {
  Logger.log("name: %s, range: %s!%s",
    namedRanges[i].getName(),
    namedRanges[i].getRange().getSheet().getSheetName(),
    namedRanges[i].getRange().getA1Notation()
  )
}

Result:

name: "PlageNommée1", range: "Feuille 1!A1"
name: "PlageNommée2", range: "Feuille 2!#REF!"

• In this case, the range of Feuille 2 can be retrieved as #REF! . From this result, you can check the namedRanges.
• It was found that the namedRange of PlageNommée2 could be retrieved by Spreadsheet Service, even if the range is #REF! .

Reference:

• getNamedRanges()