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Google drive Folder Creation from Google sheets
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| function onOpen() { //This is the new standard script for the onOpen trigger that creates a menu item. var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi(); // Or DocumentApp or FormApp. ui.createMenu('GDrive') .addItem('Create new Folders', 'crtGdriveFolder') .addToUi(); } | |
| function crtGdriveFolder() { var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); var startRow = 2; // First row of data to process var numRows = sheet.getLastRow(); // Number of rows to process var maxRows = Math.min(numRows,20); //Limit the number of rows to prevent enormous number of folder creations var folderid = sheet.getRange("C2").getValue(); var root = sheet.getRange("D2").getValue(); var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, maxRows, 2); //startRow, startCol, endRow, endCol var data = dataRange.getValues(); var folderIterator = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(folderid); //get the file iterator | |
| if(!folderIterator.hasNext()) { SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().toast('Folder not found!'); return; } | |
| var parentFolder = folderIterator.next(); | |
| if(folderIterator.hasNext()) { SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().toast('Folder has a non-unique name!'); return; } | |
| for (i in data) { var row = data[i]; var name = row[0]; // column A var desc = row[1]; // column B | |
| if(root == "N" && name != "") { var idNewFolder = parentFolder.createFolder(name).setDescription(desc).getId(); Utilities.sleep(100); var newFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById(idNewFolder); | |
| } if(root == "Y" && name != "") { | |
| var idNewFolder = DriveApp.createFolder(name).setDescription(desc).getId(); | |
| Utilities.sleep(100); | |
| var newFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById(idNewFolder); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| }; |
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