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Excel update rows with script (two tables)
Hi, I'm very new at excel online and typescript,I have two tables,in table 1 there are records of employees and their departments like "ID:1 ,Name:Alex,Department:2", and in the table 2 I have only the records of one department. I want to be able to when I change values in table 2 automatically update the values in table 1, look the ID and change the value of the row.
I'va tried with scripts and PowerAutomate flow , but only parses de data of all the table....here my code :
SCRIPT1:
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook😞 string {
let sh: ExcelScript.Worksheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
//get table
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = sh.getTable("taulaProva1");
//get table's column count
let tblColumnCount: number = tbl.getColumns().length;
//set number of columns to keep
let columnsToKeep: number = 4;
//set the number of rows to remove
let rowsToRemove: number = 0;
//resize the table range
let tblRange: ExcelScript.Range = tbl.getRangeBetweenHeaderAndTotal().getResizedRange(rowsToRemove, columnsToKeep - tblColumnCount);
//get the table values
let tblRangeValues: string[][] = tblRange.getValues() as string[][];
//create a JSON string
let result: string = JSON.stringify(tblRangeValues);
//return JSON string
return result;
}
SCRIPT2:
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook, tableValues: string) {
let sh: ExcelScript.Worksheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = sh.getTable("taulaProva1");
//tbl.getRangeBetweenHeaderAndTotal().delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.up);
//parses the JSON string to create array
let tableValuesArray: string[][] = JSON.parse(tableValues);
//gets row count from the array
let valuesRowCount: number = tableValuesArray.length - 1
//gets column count from the array
let valuesColumnCount: number = tableValuesArray[0].length - 1
//resizes the range
let rang: ExcelScript.Range = sh.getRange("A1").getResizedRange(valuesRowCount, valuesColumnCount)
//sets the value of the resized range to the array
rang.setValues(tableValuesArray)
}
I will apreciate any help, thanks a lot!!!
- Why don't you 'build' table 1 based on table 2 (and maybe other tables)
It would be better to have a 'master' list (i.e. table 1) and then use pivot table or FILTER to show the sub-list (i.e. table 2) but (especially with the new functions like vstack) you could have a table for each department and then make table 1 a combination of those sub-tables so table 1 would be for viewing/reporting and sub-tables 2-x would be the 'master' tables.- I think that this is very good idea,but I work in bussines and they want it like that, in script...
I don't know so much of scripts, i only want solution thaht updates the master table when one of secodary tables are edited,thanks!- I've only dabbled in scripts but my recollection is that a script doesn't have an on-event equivalent. By that what I mean is I know that macros have events that are triggered and you can write code to happen when data changes, but I believe a script has to be manually run. They have added buttons to make that easier to do but a button would still need to be clicked to execute the update script.
