Here is the description of my problem.
I have a range of placeholder text and its associated values in a spreadsheet. The placeholder text also exists in a slide presentation which gets replaced using the replacealltext function. However, the colors in the spreadsheet for the values do not change. Please see the examples below.
Google Apps Script:
// Google Sheets
var masterSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = masterSheet.getSheetByName('Monthly Report'); //gets the data from the active pubfile
var range = sheet.getRange('S1:T110');
var data = range.getValues();
var titleName = sheet.getRange('AA14:AA14').getValues().toString();
data.shift(); //removes the headers in the sheets
// Creating the new slide
var spreadsheetID = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId(); //Ensure Code is applied to active Pubfile
var spreadsheetFolder = DriveApp.getFileById(spreadsheetID);
var parentFolder = spreadsheetFolder.getParents();
var folderID = parentFolder.next().getId();
var reportTemplate = DriveApp.getFileById('SLIDE ID'); // Gets the report Template
var copiedTemplate = reportTemplate.makeCopy(titleName, DriveApp.getFolderById(folderID)); //Makes a copy of the orginal and saves it in the specified folder
var newPresoID = copiedTemplate.getId();
var skeleton = SlidesApp.openById(newPresoID); //opens the new template presentation
var slides = skeleton.getSlides(); //calls the new slides
return newSlide1();
function newSlide1() {
var slide1new = slides[0]; // defining the location of the new slide 1
data.forEach(function (row) {
var templateVariable = row[0]; // First column contains variable names
var templateValue = row[1]; // Second column contains values
slide1new.replaceAllText(templateVariable, templateValue); //replaces all the text that matches the placeholders
slide1new.
});
As you can see, this code just replaces the value but does not bring in the source formatting.
Here are snapshots of the original spreadsheet data and the slides:
Destination Slide with Placeholders
Please suggest a way to fix this issue. Thank you!
Here is an example of applying the colors of a spreadsheet cell to the table cells of a slide.
My spreadsheet looks like this.
My slide looks like this.
Code.gs
function myFunction() {
try {
let spread = SpreadsheetApp.openById("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
let sheet = spread.getSheetByName("Sheet1");
let range = sheet.getRange(2,1,sheet.getLastRow()-1,2);
let values = range.getDisplayValues();
let colors = range.getFontColors();
let present = SlidesApp.getActivePresentation();
let slide = present.getSlides()[0];
let table = slide.getTables()[0];
for( let i=0; i<table.getNumRows(); i++ ) {
let row = table.getRow(i);
for( let j=1; j<row.getNumCells(); j++ ) {
let text = row.getCell(j).getText();
values.some( (value,k) => {
let l = text.replaceAllText(value[0],value[1]);
if( l > 0 ) {
text.getTextStyle().setForegroundColor(colors[k][1]);
return true;
}
return false;
}
);
}
}
}
catch(err) {
console.log(err);
}
}
And the final results look like this.
Reference