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Google Sheets API spreadsheets.values.update doesn't repeat format

I'm trying to create sheets with Google Sheets API with following steps:

  • Create a template sheet and format last row manually using Web GUI
  • Copy this template sheet with Drive API
  • Write many rows to newly copied sheet's last row with Sheets API update method

This approach almost works well, but it doesn't repeat cell formatting. Please let me know how to repeat cell formatting of last row automatically when adding rows by Sheets API update method.

Sample template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MuJCxuSPuwdzjd3eJA5AJ3mIiZ0IXsdu3G-SamTBM_A/

Sample code:

    const { google } = require('googleapis')
    
    const auth = await google.auth.getClient({
      scopes: [
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets',
      ],
    })
    const gdrive = google.drive({ version: 'v3', auth })
    const res = await gdrive.files.copy({
      fileId: '1MuJCxuSPuwdzjd3eJA5AJ3mIiZ0IXsdu3G-SamTBM_A',
      resource: {
        name: 'aFileName',
        parents: ['1aths48cSYq8bA0j1gsYi-Kcp5k4lVOwt'],
      },
    })
    
    const { id: spreadsheetId } = res.data
    console.log(`Generated sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/${spreadsheetId}`)
    
    const sheets = google.sheets({ version: 'v4', auth }).spreadsheets
    await sheets.values.update({
      spreadsheetId,
      range: 'A5',
      valueInputOption: 'USER_ENTERED',
      resource: {
        values: [
          ['2022-12-28', '8.88', '12'],
          ['2022/1/10', '3.2', '3'],
          ['26 Sep 2022', '2.55', '7'],
        ],
      },
    })

Sample result: (Cell formatting applied on manually formatted row only): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-CIGOK6GczVZ4qNvsBJKOs0VJeBO8L3kGqYbh1RkC3A/

Thanks.

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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