thanks again for the help

Thanks for posting this script. This is exactly what I was looking for. One question… I continue to get the following error when pasting your script into the spreadsheet script editor.

“Missing ) in parenthetical. (line 72)” Can you offer me any help with this? I’ve done my best to solve the syntax error but I’m beginner with google apps script.

Thanks,

[Flagged for Discussion,Title,Title,Resource,Notes,Status,Category,Start Date,Duration,End Date,Worksheet Link,Last Modified]
Handled in discussion for calendar event, in this order:
Notes:
Resource:
Status:
Category:
Flagged for Discussion:

Hopefully someone finds this useful, suggestions welcomed:

function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var menuEntries = [ {name: "Sync Spreadsheet to Calendar", functionName: "calsync"},
{name: "Clear Calendar", functionName: "clearcalendar"}];
//{name: “Sync”, functionName: “myimport”}];
ss.addMenu(“Calendar Sync”, menuEntries);
}

function calsync()
{
// // Here are the steps the script follows
// 1.Builds events array from calendar, if null ignores, i add a feature, or facility on a sheet level with a template sheet, so
// 2.Get calendar from sheet, combine columns, and add headers so that many columns fit in description
// 3. Concatenate arrays
// 4.Filter for last modified, take most recent data
// 5. replace initials or first name with full name
// 6. array is ready to be sent back to calendar
// 7. split out columns based on header (currently it depends on the order, I would like to be able to find based on header and header rank, and then send them in the standard order,
// but since no one is adding new calendar events, just edditing its not a big deal.
// Just a side note, I use the flagged for discussion column to query all sheets on all workbooks where a team member would like to raise issue, to achieve maximum visibility on questions/concerns.

var myCalendar = CalendarApp.openByName(“Test2″);
var events = myCalendar.getEvents(new Date(“January 1, 2011 EST”),
new Date(“January 1, 2014 EST”));
if (events[0]) {
var eventarray = new Array();
var line = new Array();
line.push(‘Title’);
line.push(‘Start Date’);
line.push(‘End Date’);
line.push(‘Description’);
line.push(‘Last Modified’);
eventarray.push(line);

var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < events.length; i++) {
line = new Array();
line.push(events[i].getTitle());
line.push(events[i].getStartTime());
line.push(events[i].getEndTime());
line.push(events[i].getDescription());
line.push(events[i].getLastUpdated());

eventarray.push(line);
}
}

var mySpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Test2");
var last_row = mySpreadsheet.getLastRow();
var last_column = mySpreadsheet.getLastColumn();
var dataRange = mySpreadsheet.getRange("A2:"+last_column+last_row);
var data = dataRange.getValues();

if (data[0]) {
var dataarray = new Array();
var line2 = new Array();

var j = 0;
for (j = 0; j 0) {
if (typeof columnIndex != “number” || columnIndex > data[0].length) {
throw ‘Choose a valide column index’;
}
var r = new Array();
var areDates = true;
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var date = new Date(data[i][columnIndex]);
if (isNaN(date.getYear()) && data[i][columnIndex] != '') areDates = false;
else if (data[i][columnIndex] != '') data[i][columnIndex] = date;
r.push(data[i]);
}
return r.sort(function (a, b) {
if (ascOrDesc) return ((a[columnIndex] b[columnIndex]) ? 1 : 0));
return ((a[columnIndex] > b[columnIndex]) ? -1 : ((a[columnIndex] 0){
var i = 0;
var dataArray = new Array();
var line = new Array();
line.push(‘Title’);
line.push(‘Start Date’);
line.push(‘End Date’);
line.push(‘Description’);
line.push(‘Last Modified’);
dataArray.push(line);
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
line = new Array();
var row = data[i];
var temp = row[3];// for the initial replacement my solution is unacceptable longterm, I have to add people individually I know I could just do a simple table,
// but I wanted to cover variation so from a spreadsheet I build out what I paste in, it's replace.(Resource: Initials, Full Name) or replace.(firstname) for everyone and all likely variations….
// it ends up being a very long line of code, suggestions welcomed!
line.push(row[0]);
line.push(row[1]);
line.push(row[2]);
line.push(temp);
line.push(row[4]);
dataArray.push(line);
}
}
UpdateCalendar(dataArray);
Logger.log(dataArray);

// optional – delete existing events
var events = myCalendar.getEvents(new Date("January 1, 2011 EST"),
new Date("January 1, 2013 EST"));
for (var i = 0; i < events.length; i++)
{
events[i].deleteEvent();
}
}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13005699/how-do-i-modify-a-google-calendar-event-using-google-apps-script/13019195#13019195

function calsync()
{
// This function should be executed from the
// spreadsheet you want to export to the calendar
var mySpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(“Test123″);

var myCalendar = CalendarApp.openByName(“Test”);

//calendar event array
var events = myCalendar.getEvents(new Date(“January 1, 2011 EST”),
new Date(“January 1, 2014 EST”));
if (events[0]) {
var eventarray = new Array();
var line = new Array();
line.push(‘Title’);
line.push(‘Start Date’);
line.push(‘End Date’);
line.push(‘Description’);
line.push(‘Last Modified’);
eventarray.push(line);

var i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < events.length; i++) {
line = new Array();
line.push(events[i].getTitle());
line.push(events[i].getStartTime());
line.push(events[i].getEndTime());
line.push(events[i].getDescription());
line.push(events[i].getLastUpdated());
//line.push(events[i].getLocation());
eventarray.push(line);
}
} else {
Browser.msgBox('nothing between ' + startDate + ' till ' + endDate);
}

var dataRange = mySpreadsheet.getRange("A2:E53");
var data = dataRange.getValues();

if (data[0]) {
var dataarray = new Array();
var line2 = new Array();

var j = 0;
for (j = 0; j < data.length; j++) {
var row = data[j];
line2 = new Array();
line2.push(row[0]);
line2.push(row[1]);
line2.push(row[2]);
line2.push(row[3]);
line2.push(row[4]);
//line.push(events[i].getLocation());
//line.push((events[i].getEndTime() – events[i].getStartTime()) / 3600000);
dataarray.push(line2);
}
} else {
Browser.msgBox('nothing between ' + startDate + ' till ' + endDate);
}

var newarray = eventarray.concat(dataarray);
uniquedata(newarray);

}

//found at https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/removing_duplicates
function uniquedata(data) {
var newData = new Array();
var data2 = sort(data, 4, false);
for(i in data2){
var row = data2[i];
var duplicate = false;
for(j in newData){
if(row[0] == newData[j][0]){
duplicate = true;
}
}
if(!duplicate){
newData.push(row);
}
}
var filtered = sort(newData, 4 , false);
UpdateSpreadsheet(filtered);
UpdateCalendar(filtered);
// var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Test123");
// sheet.clearContents();
// sheet.getRange(1, 1, filtered.length, filtered[0].length).setValues(filtered);
}

function UpdateSpreadsheet(data) {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Test123");
sheet.clearContents();
sheet.getRange(1, 1, data.length, data[0].length).setValues(data);
}

function UpdateCalendar(data)
{
var myCalendar = CalendarApp.openByName("Test");

// optional – delete existing events
var events = myCalendar.getEvents(new Date("January 1, 2011 EST"),
new Date("January 1, 2013 EST"));
for (var i = 0; i 0) {
if (typeof columnIndex != “number” || columnIndex > data[0].length) {
throw ‘Choose a valide column index’;
}
var r = new Array();
var areDates = true;
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var date = new Date(data[i][columnIndex]);
if (isNaN(date.getYear()) && data[i][columnIndex] != '') areDates = false;
else if (data[i][columnIndex] != '') data[i][columnIndex] = date;
r.push(data[i]);
}
return r.sort(function (a, b) {
if (ascOrDesc) return ((a[columnIndex] b[columnIndex]) ? 1 : 0));
return ((a[columnIndex] > b[columnIndex]) ? -1 : ((a[columnIndex] < b[columnIndex]) ? 1 : 0));
});
}
else {
return data;
}
}

Thanks!