I have a form that my users enter data and I use onFormSubmit to trigger a script that creates a CSV based on the data inserted and after I create the CSV file I delete the data. Problem is that I am deleting the data before creating CSV file. Usually I would just make a promise call but I think it is not possible with Google Apps Script. Is there any alternative to it?
So my complete code is here:
More insight about what it does: When I receive a new form entry, the "Avaliacao" sheet gets updated and will trigger testTrigger().
Then, it will write the email and the usercity in the LastUser city so it can lookup for some data that I will use to build my CSV file. But the saveAsCsv function is called before the sheet completed its VLOOKUP calls. So my CSV file is empty.
Another issue that I have with synchronization is that if I enable the sLastUser.clear();
line it will also delete before creating the CSV.
function testTrigger () {
//open the sheets
var SS = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sAvaliacao = SS.getSheetByName("Avaliação");
var sPreCSV = SS.getSheetByName("PreCSV");
var sInput = SS.getSheetByName("Input");
var sLastUser = SS.getSheetByName("LastUser");
var dAvaliacao = sAvaliacao.getDataRange().getValues();
var dInput = sInput.getDataRange().getValues();
var avaliacaoLastRow = sAvaliacao.getLastRow()-1;
var userEmail = dAvaliacao[avaliacaoLastRow][2];
var userCity = dAvaliacao[avaliacaoLastRow][5];
var userId = dInput[3][52];
sLastUser.appendRow([userEmail, userCity]);
saveAsCSV(userId);
// sLastUser.clear(); <== this is the line where I can`t enable
}
function saveAsCSV(csvName) {
// Name
var fileName = String(csvName) + ".csv"
// Calls convertcsv
var csvFile = convertOutputToCsv_(fileName);
// create the file on my drive
DriveApp.createFile(fileName, csvFile);
}
function convertOutputToCsv_(csvFileName) {
// open sheets
var sPreCSV = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("PreCSV");
var cont = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Input").getDataRange().getValues()[3][50] + 1;
var ws = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("PreCSV").getRange(1, 1, cont, 3);
try {
var data = ws.getValues();
var csvFile = undefined;
// Loop through the data in the range and build a string with the CSV data
if (data.length > 1) {
var csv = "";
for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
if (data[row][col].toString().indexOf(",") != -1) {
data[row][col] = "\"" + data[row][col] + "\"";
}
}
// Join each row's columns
// Add a carriage return to end of each row, except for the last one
if (row < data.length-1) {
csv += data[row].join(",") + "\r\n";
}
else {
csv += data[row];
}
}
csvFile = csv;
}
return csvFile;
}
catch(err) {
Logger.log(err);
Browser.msgBox(err);
}
}
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