如何将 Google 电子表格的特定表格和 CSV 值保存在同一电子表格中另一表格的单个单元格中？

Question

Can scripts be used to export the contents of one sheet as comma separated values, and save those comma separated values as text within a cell of a different sheet within the same spreadsheet?

Conversely, can scripts be used to read the contents of the comma separated values saved within a single cell on one sheet and load/view them formatted on another sheet?

Context: I have a sheet (Sheet A) with various transactions separated by row. I'd like to use a second sheet (Sheet B) as a template to journal qualitative questions about these transactions. At a click of a button or menu item, I'd like to save the contents of that 'journal entry' to a single cell within Sheet A. Additionally, I'd like a Sheet B, or a third sheet (C) to be able to select any given row of Sheet A and load the journal entry in a proper formatted way. It'd be great if editing and viewing could be done on the same sheet (B) but not absolutely necessary

EDIT

Here is an example sheet of the data I'm working with. A solution with full code has been posted below.

You can see in the 'Journal' sheet, buttons are created to:

(1) Load Journal Template - This resets the information below Row 11, according to the 'Template' Sheet

(2) Load Journal entries - This loads the comma separated values (csv) from a single cell of the selected trade

(3) Save Journal entries - This saves the values within a subset of the below Journal area as a single cell of the trade selected by 'Select Trade'

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Answer 1

I think you don't need scripts for this action if this is small contents. When you speak about exporting sheet contents to a single cell I suppose you can use textjoin formula to put a table in a cell and separate it by comma.

=textjoin(",";false;B1:C7) - puts contents of B1:C7 in your cell.

To unfold it, you can use SPLIT formula

=split(B11;",")

makes a row of values from a content of B11

 = transpose(split(B11;","))

Makes it a coulmn.

If ranges are bigger you can still fold and unfold them without using a single script. But first I would habe to see some data structure.

Answer 2

This is the solution I managed to put together. Below is the code for each of these processes described beneath 'Edit' in the original question:

(0) General Declarations

const ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('###');
let log = ss.getSheetByName("Log");
let journal = ss.getSheetByName("Journal");
let logData = log.getDataRange().getValues();
let ticker = journal.getRange("A7").getValue();
let pnL = journal.getRange("H7").getValue();
let num = journal.getRange("B7").getValue();
let templates = ss.getSheetByName("Templates");

(1) Load Journal Template:

function loadTemplates() {
  // Clear current journal content and formatting
  journal.getRange("12:100").clearContent();
  journal.getRange("12:100").clearFormat();
  journal.getRange("12:100").setDataValidation(null);

  // Load Templates
  // ABCD
  if(journal.getRange("A3").getValue() == "ABCD"){
    templates.getRange("2:61").copyTo(journal.getRange("12:71"));
  // OTHER
  } else if (ss.getSheetByName("Journal").getRange("A3").getValue() == "ORB"){
    templates.getRange("63:122").copyTo(journal.getRange("12:71"));
  };
};

(2) Load Journal

function loadJournal() {
  for(let i = 0; i < logData.length; i++){
    if(logData[i][5].toString().includes(ticker) && logData[i][22] === num){
      journal.getRange("D13:G80").setValues(Utilities.parseCsv(logData[i][23]));
    };
  };
};

(3) Save Journal

function saveJournal() {
  // Declaring the range that will make up the Array
  let journalData = journal.getRange("D13:G80").getValues();
  let output = [];
  journalData.forEach(function(dataArray) {
      let data = dataArray.join(",");
      output += data + "\r\n";
  });
  // Finding correct trade to edit  
  for(let i = 0; i < logData.length; i++){
    if(logData[i][5].toString().includes(ticker) && logData[i][22] === num){
      log.getRange(i+1,24).setValue(output);
      //Resize workaround using Google Sheets API bc setWrap and setRowHeight do not work 
      const requests = {updateDimensionProperties: {
        properties: {pixelSize: 21},
        range: {sheetId: log.getSheetId(), startIndex: i+1, endIndex: i+1, dimension: "ROWS"},
        fields: "pixelSize"
      }};
      Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate({requests: requests}, ss.getId());
    };  
  };
};

Would love to hear your thoughts!