如何从源范围复制数据并仅将包含内容的行粘贴到单独的目标工作簿工作表中，按日期值排序

Question

Seeking a script that will copy data from source sheet range B4:C and paste to a separate target workbook columns H4:I only rows with content in one or both cells (ie. discarding row 7 of the top table below), sorted by source column C date values latest to earliest, as demonstrated in the tables below:

• Data source is constantly being added to and rearranged, so this is a growing range; not a static range dimension as is defined in my below script

Below is best I can make it work, though it doesn't omit empty rows, sort by date, and only evaluates a static source range. And it takes kind of a long time to process (~2 minutes, but it's not that big of a deal), so I'm hoping a proper script as suggested by the Community might improve that aspect as well:

function Import() {
  var cc = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('sheetID').getSheetByName('tabname');
  var data = ss.getRange("B4:C8723").getValues();
  
  cc.getRange("H4:I").clearContent();
  cc.getRange("H4:I8723").setValues(data)
}

The desired script is, in effect, the following formula:

=query(importrange(sheet,tab!range),"select B,C where B is not null order by C desc")

Hope the request is clear; thanks for the help.

Answer 1

I believe your goal is as follows.

• You want to convert the formula of =query(importrange(sheet,tab,range),"select B,C where B is not null order by C desc") to Google Apps Script.

In this case, how about the following modification?

From:

cc.getRange("H4:I").clearContent();
cc.getRange("H4:I8723").setValues(data)

To:

var values = data.filter(([b]) => b != "").sort(([,c1], [,c2]) => c1 > c2 ? -1 : 1);
cc.getRange("H4:I").clearContent();
cc.getRange("H4:I" + (values.length + 3)).setValues(values);

• In this modification, the filtered values are sorted and put them to the destination sheet.

References:

• filter()
• sort()

Answer 2

function Import() {
  var dss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  const dsh = dss.getActiveSheet();
  var sss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('sheetID');
  const ssh = sss.getSheetByName('tabname');
  var vs = ssh.getRange(4,2,ssh.getLastRow() -3,2).getValues().filter(r => r[0] && r[1]);
  dsh.getRange(4,8,dsh.getLastRow() - 3, 2).clearContent();
  dsh.getRange(4,8,vs.length,vs[0].length).setValues(vs)
}