Google Sheets Form for Data Entry - Apps Script 

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Thank you thank you thank you!! I've been watching your video for at least two weeks because I work long hours and I watched it over and over and I finally paid the patreon membership and was able to complete our new form. I was doing something wrong some how but I just copied and pasted everything in the end and modified it to our form's needs. lol. Keep up the great work!! Looking forward to your other videos.

I love when you "make mistakes" since we then get to see how you fix them! I have been able to automate quite a few spreadsheets and workbooks thanks to your lessons!!!!

thank you so much for this video in particular. With this and a few rabbit hole references to chase down the other functionality I need, I've been able to get a new RMA system up and running in three days with nothing but a spreadsheet and some fancy JavaScript, even importing the old data from the previous system on a dying XP box. I appreciate this.

I am so glad I found your video, very informative easy to understand and the logic you present behind the scripting very helpful. I watched the video to do this following it step by step and came out with a better understanding that when I started,. I have subscribed to your videos and am excited to learn more

Such an amazing video. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!

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Thank you for the time and effort you put into all your videos, you have helped me impress many of my coworkers

Your videos are the greatest, always so insightful. Thank you

Thank you. I used this to right my first Script. Works great

wow... you answered a ton of my questions all in this one video... wow... thanks

This was AWESOME!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You have made my day!!!!

I am really grateful for this video . I could apply all these tips in a new form in my job. Thank you

Always a pleasure to watch your tut´s. Espacially the ones from Apps Script. Thank you, sir!

WOW! This is fantastic. Thank you!

This was really helpful! Thank you!

Hi, thank you for all your tutorials; I´ve started coding with your help, still a beginner but I´m so thankful for all your guidance. I have a question: will this entry form be something that any user that the google sheets has been shared with can use? Also, do you have any tutorials on how to automate getting the last row from a database to fill a google docs?

I am doing something similar, but in a much more complicated way, with arrays. This is simple and clean code, thank you very much.

Exactly what I was looking for, Thank you man

Wow it's Great Tutorial. Thank You So much

Super helpful, thank you!! 🙏

This was an amazing video, if i could like this a thousand times i definitely would

Thanks for your tutorials! Its perfect! 🍺👍🙏

Great video, as always. Please, make more tut´s about Apps Script!

Very helpful! Thank you!!

Very Helpful, Thank you

Thank you so much! You're the best

Great Video wonderful. More such type of real life example videos especially on google sheet.Thanks Sir

Thank you for sharing. I learned so much🥰.

Your series of videos are extremely useful. They are so simple and properly explained that the tips given by you can be used at other places. Questions: How can the user jump from one field to next without much hastle or using tab. How do you ensure that entry to a field is completed before a script is executed.

This is great! Thank you :)

Your tutorial is awesome! I follow this guide and adjusted according to my needs. It works like a charm. For the onEdit(), I have to make it an installable trigger instead of simple trigger in order to make openbyID() to work. BTW, how can 2 or 3 users use the same Page to enter record at the same time? Make 3 duplicated data entry pages and each of them use different page? will it work? Thank you so much for your great work

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excellent !! thank you very much!

Excellent and helpful video. Thanks!

Iam Almost a Layman in scripts, Buy Enjoyed what we can do with them , THANKS A LOT !

You are my hero in google scripts

Very informative, wish you included a wa of creating PDF's of the data recorded to serve as invoicing system.

thanks for your informative video

This tutorial was super useful. Thank you very much for sharing. Is there any chance that you could advise how can we adjust clearing content while leaving formulas in certain cells? It clears everything including formulas..

Dude I had to stop watching, you're really good with how you explain!

Great job!!

Awesome!! TQVM!

Great video, as always. I wish we had the same functionality as Excel, when you protect one cell and set it in a way that the user cannot select it. This way the user could navigate only through the fields of the form. I've built great forms in Excel like this. When I try to do the same in Google Sheets, it just looks terrible...

Hi! Thank you for all of your amazing videos. With your help I've been able to build a system for keeping track of my entire brewing schedule! Now I am looking for a solution to automate and simplify the inpu of data in that same system and this is almost it! Instead of doing a form and populating the data with the push of a Save button, is there a way of doing it with an onEdit function? I am thinking of having a row for inputs at the top of a sheet and then when the last cell in the input-row is edited it sends all the data to another sheet and clears the cells used for the input. Maybe even to send the cursor back to the first cell for a new set of data inputs? If the onEdit triggers on the clear function that might set of a loop, but if it doesn't trigger this would be perfect for my system since I am trying to erase the need to use the mouse to click the button and at the same time speed up the inputs. I know this is a lot to ask from someone who has no obligation to help a stranger more than he has allready done by uploading the plethora of videos you've uploaded in the last couple of years but I thought it was worth a shot. And if nothing else I also got to thank you for your hard work! Best regards!

Thanks so much for your videos, I've seen them before and they are very concise. I've subscribed. I built this as described and modified to my needs works great!. One question I would like to have the deleted items go to a record ("deleted"). tab. I would like when the delete button is activated to have "CopyTo" function activate and send a copy to the "deleted" tab. What script do I need to add to the deleteRecord function to make this possible.

Hi there! Thanks for the useful videos! Question: what if we have more than 4 cells to read? A column of 50 for example. And we need to store that data in a row (transpose)?

I learned so much from you. Thank you. I am building a production output database and this is exactly what i need. Where can i reach this file to make a copy?

Thank you very much, I'm trying to incorporate this form in my spreadsheet, but I don't have the ID column in the data, can I use a second column with formula to create some sort of id for each row or maybe I can use the same search column as ID for the saveRecord? thank you

Awesome! Many thanks!

Thank you very much

Thanks a lot, very useful for me

This was awesome! Using it to create an inventory of my home bar and it is working great! Quick question: I have one dropdown on the Form tab called "Bottle Status" with options of Unopened, Opened, and Empty. Is there a way when "Empty" is selected the data can be moved from the Inventory tab to a "Past Bottles" tab? Trying to keep track of all of my previous bottles, but don't want them on my Inventory tab once I finish them. I found a couple of examples, but they use onEdit which I cannot figure out how to do since this script already uses onEdit. Hope that makes sense!

Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I have a data entry form with several cells. When I use the cost getRange = [""], the command enters the next line due to the several cells in the data entry form. Which command can I use to make the command run as one line without breaking? Thanks

Great instructions. I have a question..... How do you amend the Search Function to allow for multiple responses, getting the Form to move from each response to the next? I am trying to use this for a database, for inventory, where it is possible that the search (text box with 80 characters) will return multiple records. I need a way to move from one response to the next.

Great....thanks

Great video again. Anyway to do a form approval process from sheet?

Thank you sir, i applied this to a database with 90 data points per row divided in 9 categories and searchable by each. but without your example i would have struggles allot longer

Thank you so much for your great tutorials. May I know how can my data entry be converted to all capitals when it enters the database? Thanks in advance, keep up the great work.

Great tutorials, thank you.... Can you please make a video on How script and set triggers work in a copied spreadsheet

This is wonderful learning from the video. Is it possible to download the script and try myself?

Hi there! Thank you so much for this tutorial! Is there a way to also add a picture to the form?

Verry helpfull for beginer like me, thanks for share

Hi, thanks for the wonderful information you share here, I follow you step by step on a google sheet that I want to key in and store data on. and the when I reach to the console.log part, The Info there show [Function], what do this mean?

this is awesome!

Thanks for making this great tutorial. Just wondering if I can get the link to scripts please?

Thank you for your videos, I am a new subscriber and they've been very helpful. I have just customized this data entry to my particular needs, and it's working great. I have just one question for you: Do you know how to embed this form so it is editable by anyone with access to the link? I have already tried two options, the one with the appearance of a proper form isn't editable (File=>Share=>Publish to the web), and the one which is editable (Share=>Anyone with the link=>Editor=>Copy link) doesn't have the appearance I´m looking for... Can you shed a light? Thanks again!

Thank you

This will help small-time businesses that don't have enough budget for a system.

Hello! Excellent video! I would like to set some required fields, how would you do that? Thank you very much!

Great videos thank you. This is the first script I've tried, I can not get the fields to populate when using the search box, Ive double checked but with no luck so I've moved on to 47mins in and I am getting an error saying ReferenceError: row is not defined, but I am unsure how to fix this and if its related to the search box not working. I appreciate its hard to comment without seeing the script, but thought I ask as its taken all day so far... is anything you can suggest that I can check? Thanks in advance, regards Sam.

Wow what a great tutorial! It was just the thing I was looking for to help with a data entry solution for our staff at a non for profit organization. :-) I'm seriously stuck though and was wondering if you or anyone here had some ideas, as there are a couple of issues I'm wondering if there are solutions for? (1) I've created a button in the sheet via drawing and attached a script, but it's behavior is not like a regular UI button, there is no hover highlight or any feedback that it is working until the script processing message dialog pops up. The issue here is that I found myself clicking multiple times and executing multiple script calls :-( Is there a way to prevent multiple clicks - maybe present a dialog box saying the action was successful? Some workaround, maybe not using a button but some kind of dialog box or other trigger to "submit"/(call the script) the entry. 2) Also, it all works okay (except the multiple clicks) for ME, but this is for people in the organization to do their own data entry, and when I try the sheet from a share link, I get an error message after the script tries to run and stalls? Are there special permissions I need to setup for the worksheets, I'm not sure why it's happening? Here's the link: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tNBxkRFfuOhSycgZNX3Cv2xvUZOo4xadYfg457wS1x8/edit?usp=sharing Thanks in advance for taking a quick look!

Until your video I didn't know what a script was. Fantastic and easy to understand. But, like always a question. My data sheet contains 8 columns including currency, numbers and dates. When I feed info in, all are ok, numbers with 2 decimal points, amounts with $ symbol and correct decimal places however, my dates show on my data sheet as "month/day/year". No matter what I format or what I enter the format is always the same. Help!

Love your videos. Great help. I did the entries and all worked as planned. Then something went wrong. I add some setFormula's to a different function and now the saveRecords function will not append my entries to my data. I checked and triple check the entries for the function saveRecords. Would you be able to help?

Hi, thank you for the helpful video! I was wondering if you could help me figure out how I can automatically add a timestamp as well to the Data sheet when saving a record.

Really good thank you. Is there a place where we can copy the code to try ourselves? thx

Thank you for your insights. And I would like to know how this APP Script can work on Mobile phone or Tablets?

Great thanks for this tutorial. Can you provide a link of example sheet or tempelete for us to download? So , to avoid typo, debug.

SIR YOUR VIDEO SO MUCH HELPFUL FOR ME WHO DOESNT KNOW ANYTHING REGARDING THIS..TQ SO MUCH..BUT CAN I ASK U SIR?..HOW CAN WE USE SAME SCRIPT AND SAME SHEET BUT ACCESSED BY MULTIPLE USER IN A TIME..?

Quick question with this, could it be configured to reject any of the inputs(not add the entry to the data set) if they already exist in the data set, when you click the save button? Additional question: Can this be done across workbooks or just across sheets in the workbook where the form exists?

Hi, Thank you for the many videos. Do you have any videos on updating multiple data records from Web Apps to Google Spreadsheets? > I have a Google sheet data with just Ids and Name - (only 2 columns) > I have extracted the data to the Web App in a table format using the CRUD codes and include about 4 Checkboxes for each record in the Web App table using create table array methods. (using only one HTML page) > the objective is to easily see the rows of records and tick the appropriate Checkboxes. User may tick different Checkboxes for each row. > How do we get these multiple Checkboxes Boolean values from the different records and place these values into the Google Sheets and append to the new columns? I understand from your video the update is to edit for individual record. But my data just require checkboxes only to update Boolean values to the data and thus the use table format. Really appreciate if you do have such videos. Sorry for my long request. I'm just a beginner! And thank you again for all the videos.

Awesome 👍

Thanks

Hi .... 🙋‍♂🙋‍♂ thank you for sharing the valuable Edu. video for us. I learn lots from that video. but I have one quotation, if the file share with another person and i want to only he update the data but not delete or edit after save the changes then how I can do, its possible ??

Thank you! It is a great lesson for me, But this is enter data one by one, can it enter several duplicate data one time?

i have a question regarding a file like this is their any way we can have pictures be put as well like you have names and ages states is their a way to have a picture for their like profile aswell?

Could you pls make update record button, Navigation buttons, and print button on form. or already have pls suggest a video.. your videos are BEST!!!

Hi. I really like your work and I am totally fascinated, how you deliver your content in a comprehensible manner. I still have a question and I hope you can help: How can I extend this functions to multiple tabs in one document? I want to edit and enter data in severel other tabs and want them to be stored in the data tab too.

Hi! Is there a way to prevent submission if certain fields are not filled out? Or if it's empty?

What would the code be if I had some cells in the form which auto updated ( such as today() ) and I did not want them to get erased when I press the new Record button ? However they all still get transferred/ saved to the Data sheet .

Nice tutorial, learned a lot from this (script wise) and made it work for my own purpose 😀 However I've got 1 question though: How do we get the buttons to work on Mobile App? Due to it's purpose we've got mobile users but tbh I think it's a limitation of the Mobile App 😕 Like so many things

Is there a way to add data to a spcific column using a pull down to pick what column it goes in?

thank you so much for saving our time. i'm having an issue while writing onEdit. it says e is undefined. pl guide

First.. FANTASTIC!!! I used this simple Data Entry form to create a VERY Complex data entry form The Problem I have is: I have an auto calculation formula (simple =sum()) in Two Cells in the sheet. When the data is displayed in the Form, it appears to display correctly(but without the formula). If the data in the form is edited and then saved, the formulas are wiped out. Is there any way I can keep the formulas in the sheet? The sheet is an export from a Google Tables System I have setup, I'm also working on trying to get the sheet data imported back into the Table System. (Area120Tables). But that is another problem for another time. The main thing right now.. how to do I retain the auto-calculations?

I love your tutorials! In trying to modify an existing dataset, I have run into a bit of an issue I don't understand. The Form is simple ID Search Serial Number Brand Location Model Version Asset Tag Comment In the Inventory data their is a field Brand that is using a RegexMatch to autofill this field. If I search to find a record, then modify say location and save, the form is filling in this value from the querried valued. How can I skip that field on the saveRecord function. The Brand is determined by the starting 3 characters of the Serial Number.

Your videos are very educational and have raised my awareness and skills tremendously! Thank you for that. My question: do you also share the code that you create during the video? Where can we find your sample code? It would help in learning even more.

Hi can you make a video on how to use the =SORT function?

anyway to get a copy of just the coding part so I can see it by it's self?

Hi, great video, was very helpful! I created my own database using this as an example but i am however, having an issue with saving a field "Mobile Number" as the number being saved is loosing the leading 0. Doesn't matter if the field on the "form" page or the working spreadsheet is formatted as text. It appears the process of extracting the data from the "form" page is treating it as numerical and thus the leading 0 is being removed. Any suggestions on how I can correct this?

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