I have a custom function as a Google Spreadsheet script, which depends on some other cells' values. It runs ok the first time I put it in a cell, but then when I change the data in the other cells it stays the same. How can I make the first cell update its value automatically when I change the other cells?
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I found an answer which doesn't fully make me happy but it's good enough I guess.
If you add a function called onEdit to the script of a spreadsheet, it will be called every time stuff is edited. So, this is the code that worked for me: (it has some details that could be useful so I left them unedited)
function onEdit(event) {
if (SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getName().substr(0,5) == "thing")
SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet().getRange("I1").setValue(myCustomFunction());
}
This makes sheets whose name begins with thing, get the result of myCustomFunction into cell I1.
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I have a similar problem.
This is how I am doing it atm, but its not the best solution. I am looking for a better one.
If any value at sheet Prices and column D changes. Meaning if any cell value changes in the whole column it updates the custom function value.
//Search Price sheet with the given name. Return price. dummy param updates google ss once the "Prices" sheet values changed.
function searchPrice(price,dummy)
{
var SPREADSHEET_NAME = "Prices";
var SEARCH_COL_IDX = 2;
var RETURN_COL_IDX = 3;
var values = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(SPREADSHEET_NAME).getDataRange().getValues();
for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i++)
{
var row = values[i];
if (row[SEARCH_COL_IDX] == price)
{
return row[RETURN_COL_IDX];
}
}
}
This is how you call it =searchPrice(B8,Prices!D:D)
Just give your custom function a dummy param. It doesn't do anything in the custom function.
