Spreadsheet Automation 101 Lesson 2: Get Values - Introduction

About this Tutorial

Get Values is done in the Apps Script. In this lesson, you’ll learn what changing .getValue() to .getValues() do. You’ll also learn about Logger and For Loop, which I mention here briefly.

Video Transcript

0:00 Hello, welcome to section two. This is Get Values. The other section was called Get Value. And what we did, we went to our app script, extensions app script, which I already have open here.
0:12 Last thing we did was we did spreadsheet app, we got active spreadsheet, we got the sheet by name, we got the range and we got a value.
0:19 We got one value out of an entire range. Now, the only thing we're gonna do here today right now is we are gonna add one letter.
0:27 So on get value, we're gonna change it to get values. Now, what does that do? What does that change about our function that we can do extra?
0:36 Well, one is our get range goes from the starting. So the only thing one, one, which is a one, but it allows us to use that as a starting point to then get any number of rows and any number of columns.
0:49 So if we want to get say, 20 rows and we want to get maybe that one column, so that's one array.
0:56 We'll get into arrays soon, I'll let you know. But what I wanna do is I wanna show you what that looks like because it looks a little different.
1:05 Let's let's delete all of the Git UI and we'll start using logger. I'm gonna go into Logger a little bit later, but we're gonna use logger.
1:14 We're gonna just log the values. Let's change that to the values. Okay, so we're getting 20 rows. What does that look like?
1:24 We're just gonna look at this, Val. The values in this log right here. Let's see what it pulls an un an unknown error occurred.
1:35 Please try again later. All right, <laugh>, we, we'll try once again. Well, this is silly me. All right. Up here on Run, we have to select our function that we're running.
1:45 So this is very important to do, show a, show a one that's a function we're trying to run. And when we click run, we have to make sure we have the selected one running.
1:54 All right, now we're running. Now what do we got here? We got these, these brackets and this is an array of a race, so I'm gonna get into that later in next video.
2:06 But I just wanted to show you right off the bat, we're using Logger, which we'll get into soon. And we're also in this section gonna talk about the for loop.
2:15 That's how we end up actually being able to parse and get the right things at the right time. This is really exciting.
2:21 And then we're gonna end this section with the on edit trigger. It's just like the on open up here. We just write it right in our our app script.
2:32 But it's really exciting because it opens up a lot of options for us. Get ready, let's go get values.

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