使用谷歌工作表脚本时，如何将电子表格的工作表复制到另一个电子表格中而不创建新的工作表副本？

Question

1.I have 2 spreadsheets. let's call them A and B.

2.A has a sheet,let's call it X while B also has a sheet,let's call it Y.

3.X has every information that I want to copy into Y,such as values,formats,pictures(that I put into the cell)

4.Because X has the pics in it.So I cant use importrange to get the pics shows in Y since they were in different spread,so I have to copy it into Y using script.

5.My goal is just copy X into Y without create other sheet in B.

5.At first，I am using code like this

function CopySheet() {

    var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("A's ID");       //Get spread A
    var cs = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();   //Get spread B

    var sourceSheet = ss.getSheetByName("X's name");  //Get sheet X
    sourceSheet.copyTo(cs);                           //Copy X into B (create a new sheet Z)
 }

Although the newly created sheet Z can shows the pics, but in Spread BI have other sheet that use formulas that keeps refs with Y.If I delete Y and rename Z to YI found that every formula's refs are lost!

So is there has some way with the scripits that can only copy X into currently existed Y without create new sheet?

Answer 1

Solution

NOTE: This solution is brought to you by @Cooper who suggested the possible answer in a comment of this question. This answer is posted as a community wiki.

To achieve what you aim, this is what worked for me:

1. Copy your sheet X from A to B
2. Copy all the content from Copy of X in B to Y
3. Delete Copy of X

The following code is an example of how this would work. You can find explanations to it in the comments of the code:

 function myFunction() { // get spreadsheets A and B var a = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID SHEET A'); var b = SpreadsheetApp.openById('ID SHEET B'); // copy sheet X into spreadhseet B a.getSheetByName('X').copyTo(b); // copy the values of the cells in the sheet just created in spreadsheet B var range = b.getSheetByName('Copy of X').getRange(b.getSheetByName('Copy of X').getLastRow(), b.getSheetByName('Copy of X').getLastColumn()); // paste all the content of the sheet X into Y (into the desired range of Y) range.copyTo(b.getSheetByName('Y').getRange('A1')); // delete the sheet that was created when passing the information from one spreadsheet to another b.deleteSheet(b.getSheetByName('Copy of X')); }

I hope this has helped you. Let me know if you need anything else or if you did not understood something. :)