So I am trying to setup something for our community in order to track any potential Covid exposures.
Each week we have an unknown number of events (1+N), I am currently able to create a spreadsheet from a template for each event using the X number of Days before event start in google calendar.
What I would like to do instead, is create a single spreadsheet with 1+N workbooks, named for the event in question, per week.
As I understand it right now, I dont see a way to:
name the workbooks
pull ALL events in a given week (I can pull the first one that matches a search criteria, but then the system stops there)
Open to any suggestions but more or less the only tools I have access to is GSheets and GCal for this :(
Best answer by SamB
Thanks for clarifying that, @Boris K!
I did some digging and there’s an existing feature request open for the ability to set the name of the new worksheet when using the Copy Worksheet action. So I went ahead and added your vote for that. I can’t give any promises as to when that functionality will be added to the Copy Worksheet action but we’ll definitely reach out to you by email as soon as it is!
That aside, I’m not sure Google Sheet is going to be the best place to handle this workflow. I’m wondering if it might be better to use an app like Airtable instead. It’s similar to Google Sheets but has more database-like features. So you’d be able to add all the information into a single place but could set it to group the different rows (records) of data or set up different views based on the dates. They’ve got a free plan so may be worth a look to see if it will do what you’re after?
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Google Sheets has a Create Worksheet action which you could use to add additional worksheets to a single spreadsheet. You could then take the name of the event from the Google Calendar trigger to use as the name of the workbook. For example:
What I’m a bit unclear on is what you mean by “pull ALL events in a given week”. Is it that you’re looking to create separate worksheets for each week and add the details for each event (from that week) into the rows on that worksheet?
Of all the sheet actions Create Worksheet is the only one that lets me name a sheet, however, I already have a Template Sheet that is setup the way I need it to be. Copy Worksheet can copy it, but does not let me name it, which ends up with me having a Sheet full of Copy of TEMPLATE and Copy of Template (1), etc etc etc
I did some digging and there’s an existing feature request open for the ability to set the name of the new worksheet when using the Copy Worksheet action. So I went ahead and added your vote for that. I can’t give any promises as to when that functionality will be added to the Copy Worksheet action but we’ll definitely reach out to you by email as soon as it is!
That aside, I’m not sure Google Sheet is going to be the best place to handle this workflow. I’m wondering if it might be better to use an app like Airtable instead. It’s similar to Google Sheets but has more database-like features. So you’d be able to add all the information into a single place but could set it to group the different rows (records) of data or set up different views based on the dates. They’ve got a free plan so may be worth a look to see if it will do what you’re after?
