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May 27, 2015 14:33
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Autosort button script for Google Sheets
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function resort(tableRange, columnToSortBy){ | |
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); | |
var range = sheet.getRange(tableRange); | |
range.sort( { column : columnToSortBy, ascending: false } ); | |
} | |
// just a wrapper; timestamp is just anti-cacheing trick | |
function myGetRangeByName(n, timestamp) { | |
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
return sheet.getRangeByName(n).getA1Notation(); | |
} | |
function resort_projects(){ | |
// Date() just introduces a cacheing-resistent parameter, to force sheets to recheck result of that function | |
var tableRange = myGetRangeByName("projects", Date()); | |
var columnToSortBy = 5; | |
resort(tableRange, columnToSortBy) | |
} |
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