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One-To-Many Relationship in a Google Spreadsheet

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It's often the case that you want and need to be creating a database to store your data, but Google Spreadsheets are just so handy aren't they? But Google Spreadsheets are very good at relational data.

Here's an example where, you want to have one column for the name of your recipe and another for the ingredients ( comma separated ).

How you use this script is you click on the cell you want to be relational and choose the Admin > Show Relationship Editor. This opens up a dialog window showing you all the options included so far. You then alter the ingredients and it saves a comma separated list into the spreadsheet.







Here's the spreadsheet. Use File > Make a copy to see it work and rummage around in the code.

If anyone can help make the UI prettier I'd be grateful, thanks.

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  1. Evan4 March 2015 at 05:33

    Google Docs are a good collaborative tool that is available or probably the best among the word-processing category as Creately is top among the diagram category.

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  2. Willem Karssenberg17 May 2015 at 08:57

    Nice!
    But where is the comma seperated file stored?
    In other words, where can I add new ingredients to the list?

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    1. Willem Karssenberg17 May 2015 at 09:02

      Sorry, found it already, just in the cell. This is very useful for me, thanks!
      Would be nice when the popup shows with a right-click.

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  3. Anneleis26 July 2016 at 05:08

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  4. aliyaa26 December 2016 at 09:49

    The quantitative statistical analysis is best for thee students who have large data and related projects. The analysis report must be unique.

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  5. jb19 June 2017 at 18:57

    going to a blank cell and the list of ingredients are still there...I don't understand were they are stored and how I can change the list

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  6. Elysium Pro15 August 2019 at 09:46

    informative post thanks for sharing
    android projects
    final year projects with source code
    bigdata projects
    php projects with source code

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  7. Anonymous21 February 2020 at 19:13

    When I make a copy I just get the spreadsheet with the data but no checkbox or anything... does this no longer work?

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