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Tidying Up Spreadsheet Data Gathered In A Google Form

Google Forms are a great way to make it easier to get the right data from your colleagues, but after a while your spreadsheet data can get very messy and you need to organise it a bit. For example, Jo created a form so that people could submit requests to go on external courses that asks for all the data needed for them to be able to make a decision about it. It asks how much it costs, how much the hotels and travel will be and who will benefit from the course etc. It works really well. But now that lots of people have submitted it, and had their course requests approved, she wanted to tidy up the spreadsheet without losing the data so that it was easy to process a small list of current requests. Funnily enough, two other people in the last two weeks have come to me with identical needs, so here's an example that works. What it does... All this script does is, if you set a column called "Status" to "OK", then it moves that row of data to a hidden sheet. ...