Google Sheets Apps Script Copy Row of Data If date same as tab name

Question

I found some code that almost does what i need and have tried playing around with it to get it to work, but no luck. I get an export with data with dates in the last column on every row.

I simply want to copy the last column rows of dates to the tabs with the same name.

function MoveDate_FourthDEC() {
var ss=SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var sh1=ss.getSheetByName("Import");
var sh2=ss.getSheetByName("4/12/2020");
var rg1=sh1.getRange(2,1,sh1.getLastRow(),32);//starting at column2
var data=rg1.getValues();
for(var i=0;i<data.length;i++) {
// 13 = collected should be in this column which is column N
if(data[i][31]=="4/12/2020") {
sh2.appendRow(data[i]);
}}}

Answer 1

Explanation:

• Your goal is to copy all the rows for which column AF matches the names of the sheets.

• To begin with, you can use forEach() to iterate over every sheet. For each sheet, you want to check whether the sheet name matches a date in column AF . If it does, then you need to filter only the rows that contain this date in column AF and store them into an temporary array:

  let temp_data = data.filter(r=>r[31]==sh.getName());

• Then you can efficiently copy and paste all the relevant rows to the matching sheet:

sh.getRange(sh.getLastRow()+1,1,temp_data.length,temp_data[0].length).setValues(temp_data);

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Side notes:

• When dealing with date objects you need to consider the display values in the sheet. This is why I am using getDisplayValues instead of getValues .

• Since data starts from the second row, you need to deduct one row from the last row with content, to get the correct range:

  getRange(2,1,sh1.getLastRow()-1,32)

• I am using includes to check if the sheet name matches the last column. In order to use includes you need to flat ten the 2D array that is returned by the getDisplayValues function.

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Solution:

function MoveDate_FourthDEC() {

const ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
const sh1 = ss.getSheetByName("Import");
const shs = ss.getSheets();
const dts = sh1.getRange('AF2:AF'+sh1.getLastRow()).getDisplayValues().flat();
const data=sh1.getRange(2,1,sh1.getLastRow()-1,32).getDisplayValues();
shs.forEach(sh=>{
if (dts.includes(sh.getName())){
let temp_data = data.filter(r=>r[31]==sh.getName());
sh.getRange(sh.getLastRow()+1,1,temp_data.length,temp_data[0].length).setValues(temp_data);
}});
}