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Thread: Frustrating File>save as search function in google script

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    Default Frustrating File>save as search function in google script

    Hopefully, this fits in with this thread. I know it is not 100% java, but the functions are similar.

    I am making a lesson plan script that uses a Goolge form to create a report in Google spreadsheet that is identical to the lesson plan template we use at my school. I went through all the tutorials and hundreds of lines of sample code, and I cannot find this answer. Searching for this answer is even more frustrating because it just returns simple directions to save a file from the tool bar!

    In my script, I have a trigger that does the following function on Form sumbission:

    Delete row 2 (this allows the data in row 3 to stay constant with new forms sumbitted)

    Email (email choices are on the form)

    I have the code for this down, and it works fine, (but there is a problem with the 5 minutes delay that Google has in its spreadsheet when it uploads the data to a html. So I have to find a solution that saves the report to the google drive.)


    My focus is to create a sheet (report) and have a script function that automatically saves sheet 2 in google docs.

    When I do a search for google script save function, I get toolbar help.

    This is the only sample script I could find, it runs, but it is not saving what it should and where it should:

     
    function saveAsCSV() {
      // Prompts the user for the file name
      var fileName = Browser.inputBox("Save CSV file as (e.g. myCSVFile):");
     
      // Check that the file name entered wasn't empty
      if (fileName.length !== 0) {
        // Add the ".csv" extension to the file name
        fileName = fileName + ".csv";
        // Convert the range data to CSV format
        var csvFile = convertRangeToCsvFile_(fileName);
        // Create a file in the Docs List with the given name and the CSV data
        DocsList.createFile(fileName, csvFile);
      }
      else {
        Browser.msgBox("Error: Please enter a CSV file name.");}
    }

    Is there a saveAs function that uses a similar syntax to the above in the script I am trying to write?
    If I can find the correct command, this will go much smoother when trying to fix the rest of the script: Saving as a pdf, how to just save sheet 2 which is the report and not the entire spreadsheet).

    Any help would be great,

    Thanks

    -seg
    Last edited by segreto; August 16th, 2012 at 10:31 AM.


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    Default Re: Frustrating File>save as search function in google script

    Try a javascript forum. This one is for java programming.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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