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Using GForm to populate a GDoc Template
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| //this object maps GSheet column into convenient placeholders used into GDocs templates | |
| var columns_placeholder_map = { | |
| "chronological information" : "date_time", | |
| "Please, insert the company name" : "company_name", | |
| "Company director first name" : "first_name", | |
| "Company director last name" : "last name", | |
| "Price (in $)" : "price" | |
| //... | |
| //... | |
| } |
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| /* | |
| Returns an object having keys as in columns_placeholder_map values, and values equals to the given row | |
| */ | |
| function transformRowInJSON(row_number) { | |
| var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
| var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0]; | |
| var cols = sheet.getLastColumn(); | |
| //we get the first row as form field (label) names | |
| var labels = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, cols).getValues()[0] | |
| //now we get the values of the given row | |
| var dataRange = sheet.getRange(row_number, 1, 1, cols); | |
| var data = dataRange.getValues(); | |
| var row_data = data[0]; | |
| //now we have labels and row_data, let's build the final JSON object to return | |
| var result = {};//this is the returned object | |
| for (var i=0;i<row_data.length;i++){ | |
| var label = labels[i]; | |
| var key = columns_placeholder_map[label.trim()]; | |
| //maybe some label is not mapped | |
| if (key) { | |
| var value = row_data[i]; | |
| result[key] = value; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| /* | |
| At this point we will have something like this: | |
| { | |
| "date_time":"2019-01-28 07:22:34", //actually this is a Date object | |
| "company_name": "ACME ltd", | |
| "first_name": "John", | |
| "last name": "Doe" | |
| "price":"1000" | |
| } | |
| */ | |
| return result; | |
| }//transformRowInJSON |
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