Is it possible to further reduce the cost of the request with Google sheets api v4 in setValue and setNumberFormat?

Question

Now I use the code below to format and insert values.

function AddName () {
  const range1 = ['Q4:Q','S4:S','U4:U','W4:W','Y4:Y','AA4:AA','AC4:AC','AE4:AE',
  'AG4:AG','AI4:AI','AK4:AK','AM4:AM','AO4:AO','AQ4:AQ','AS4:AS','AU4:AU','AW4:AW','AY4:AY','BA4:BA',
  'BC4:BC','BE4:BE','BG4:BG','BI4:BI','BK4:BK','BM4:BM','BO4:BO','BQ4:BQ','BS4:BS','BU4:BU','BW4:BW',
  'BY4:BY','CA4:CA','CC4:CC','CE4:CE','CG4:CG','CI4:CI','CK4:CK','CM4:CM','CO4:CO','CQ4:CQ','CS4:CS',
  'CU4:CU','CW4:CW','CY4:CY','DA4:DA','DC4:DC','DE4:DE','DG4:DG','DI4:DI','DK4:DK','DM4:DM','DO4:DO',
  'DQ4:DQ','DS4:DS','DU4:DU','DW4:DW','DY4:DY','EA4:EA','EC4:EC','EE4:EE','EG4:EG','EI4:EI','EK4:EK',
  'EM4:EM','EO4:EO'];
  range1.reverse().forEach(c => sheet.getRange(c).setNumberFormat('0.00%'));
  const range = ['Q1','S1','U1','W1','Y1','AA1','AC1','AE1','AG1','AI1','AK1',
  'AM1','AO1','AQ1','AS1','AU1','AW1','AY1','BA1','BC1','BE1','BG1','BI1','BK1','BM1','BO1','BQ1',
  'BS1','BU1','BW1','BY1','CA1','CC1','CE1','CG1','CI1','CK1','CM1','CO1','CQ1','CS1','CU1','CW1',
  'CY1','DA1','DC1','DE1','DG1','DI1','DK1','DM1','DO1','DQ1','DS1','DU1','DW1','DY1','EA1','EC1',
  'EE1','EG1','EI1','EK1','EM1','EO1'];
  range.reverse().forEach(c => sheet.getRange(c).setValue('% наценки'));
 }

Is it possible to further reduce the cost of the request and speed up the script? When formatting a lot of files, it will save me a lot of time

Answer 1

I believe your goal as follows.

• You want to reduce the process cost of your script.

Modification points:

• In this case, I thought that when RepeatCellRequest and UpdateCellsRequest of the batchUpdate in Sheets API are used, the process cost might be reduced a little.

Modified script:

Before you use this script, please enable Sheets API at Advanced Google services. And, please set the variables of spreadsheetId, sheetName and ranges. ranges is from your script. When you want to more ranges, please add them to the array.

function myFunction() {
  const spreadsheetId = "###"; // Please set the Spreadsheet ID.
  const sheetName = "Sheet1"; // Please set the sheet name.
  // Please set the ranges. In this sample, a part of your ranges is used. So please modify this for your actual situation.
  const ranges = ['Q4:Q','S4:S','U4:U',,,];

  const sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(spreadsheetId).getSheetByName(sheetName);
  const sheetId = sheet.getSheetId();
  const rangeList = sheet.getRangeList(ranges).getRanges();
  const requests = rangeList.flatMap(r => [
    {repeatCell:{cell:{userEnteredFormat:{numberFormat:{type:"PERCENT",pattern:"0.00%"}}},range:{sheetId:sheetId,startRowIndex:r.getRow() - 1,startColumnIndex:r.getColumn() - 1,endColumnIndex:r.getColumn() + r.getNumColumns() - 1},fields:"userEnteredFormat"}},
    {updateCells:{rows:[{values:[{userEnteredValue:{stringValue:"%наценки"}}]}],range:{sheetId:sheetId,startRowIndex:0,endRowIndex:1,startColumnIndex:r.getColumn() - 1,endColumnIndex:r.getColumn() + r.getNumColumns() - 1},fields:"userEnteredValue"}}
  ]);
  Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate({requests: requests}, spreadsheetId);
}

Note:

• In this modified script, when the Spreadsheet has the columns "A" to "Z", when the column "AA" is used, an error like exceeds grid limits. Max rows: 1000, max columns: 26 occurs. So please be careful this. Before you use this script, please add columns to the sheet for your ranges.

References:

• RepeatCellRequest
• UpdateCellsRequest

Answer 2

If the columns of choice do not have a specific pattern. For example change the format for every 2 columns or something like that then I think your only option is to hardcopy them.

• Since you are looking for performance, consider doing the operation for range1 not for the full column, but only until the last row with content. This will reduce the cost of your script if there are many rows in the sheet.

Replace:

range1.reverse().forEach(c => sheet.getRange(c).setNumberFormat('0.00%'));

with:

range1.reverse().forEach(c => sheet.getRange(c+sheet.getLastRow()).setNumberFormat('0.00%'));

Answer 3

Use RangeList:

sheet.getRangeList(range1).setNumberFormat('0.00%');
sheet.getRangeList(range).setValue('% наценки'));