Comments on: Data Shaping in Google Spreadsheet – Generating New Rows from Multiple Values in a Single Column

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:16:34 +0000

Of course… :) I missed that it’s controlled by a in-cell formula, I’ve got it working exactly what I need! Thanks so much!!

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:43:53 +0000

Hi Dan if you open https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqGkLMU9sHmLdFNhMmM5ZEJ1Qk90bFBicXpwbmF2MWc#gid=1 and File > Make a copy for a functioning copy

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:54:33 +0000

This script looks like it will do exactly what I’m looking for for a project I’m working on. However, I’m a newb to scripts and I’m not exactly sure how to take the script you have above and point it to the data on my sheet and then how to point it to my destination. I know that is very basic, I’m just not able to do it. If there is anyway you could share the script with me that is functioning on the spreadsheet, I can figure out how to change locations and destinations on my sheet I believe and be good to go. Would you be willing to do that?

Thanks!
Dan

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:39:52 +0000

Sure re-use away :) I’ve tried a couple of times to add it to the Script Gallery so that anyone can freely use it but keep getting a server error
Martin

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:04:22 +0000

Martin, this is great, and something I would love to incorporate into an e-health project I’m working on at the moment. For my dissertation this summer, I’m creating a website to study how people with Coeliac disease use the web and smartphones to organise their lives, and at the moment am pooling data from various APIs to create a locations database that I am pulling into the prototype website and android app.

I would like to do something similar to what you are doing, and separate the data in the address column (‘D’) into individual columns, so that the street address, city, postcode and country are each in their own columns (see below – can I use your script to do this?)
A sample of my spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al135Uzr-xDZdDNoZlNQSTROWDJ5NDVyRjBqZWVlTGc

The prototype Android app (sorry, only London at the moment – if I can crack the above, i’ll be loading lots more towns and cities): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shoutem.n690303
Website: http://www.givemeglutenfree.com

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