CREATE PDF FROM GOOGLE SHEETS - pdf

Question

function createBulkPDFs(){
const docFile = DriveApp.getFileById("id");
const tempFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("id");
const pdfFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("id");
const currentSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Sheet1")
const data = currentSheet.getRange(2,1,currentSheet.getLastRow()-1,15).getDisplayValues();
let errors = [];
data.forEach(row => {
try{
createpdf(row[0],row[1],row[5],row[6],row[7],row[8],row[9],row[0] + " " + row[1],docFile,tempFolder,pdfFolder);
errors.push("");
} catch(err){
errors.push("Failed");
}
}); //close forEach
currentSheet.getRange(2,15,currentSheet.getLastRow()-1,1).setValues(errors);
}
function
createpdf(First_name,Last_name,Description,Address,Location,Date_of_letter,Date_of_Def,pdfname,docFile,tempFolder,pdfFolder) {
const tempFile = docFile.makeCopy(tempFolder);
const tempDocFile = DocumentApp.openById(tempFile.getId());
const body = tempDocFile.getBody();
body.replaceText("{First name}",First_name);
body.replaceText("{Last name}",Last_name);
body.replaceText("{Description}",Description);
body.replaceText("{Address}",Address);
body.replaceText("{Location}",Location);
body.replaceText("{Date of letter}",Date_of_letter);
body.replaceText("{Date of Def}",Date_of_Def);
tempDocFile.saveAndClose();
const pdfContentBlob = tempFile.getAs(MineType.Pdf);
pdfFolder.createFile(pdfContentBlob).setName("pdfname");

Answer 1

I tried to replicate your code and found some issues.
The use of setValues() when populating rows of data. The data should be in 2 dimensional. Each sub-array represents row of data.
The value used in getAs() should be application/pdf instead of MineType.pdf.
Here is my sample data:
Code:
function createBulkPDFs() {
const docFile = DriveApp.getFileById("id");
const tempFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("id");
const pdfFolder = DriveApp.getFolderById("id");
const currentSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Sheet1")
const data = currentSheet.getRange(1, 1, currentSheet.getLastRow(), 11).getDisplayValues();
let errors = [];
data.forEach(row => {
try {
createpdf(row[0], row[1], row[5], row[6], row[7], row[8], row[9], row[0] + " " + row[1], docFile, tempFolder, pdfFolder);
errors.push("Success");
} catch (err) {
errors.push("Failed");
}
}); //close forEach
let newArr = [];
while(errors.length > 0) {
newArr.push(errors.splice(0,1));
}
currentSheet.getRange(1, 12, currentSheet.getLastRow(), 1).setValues(newArr);
}
function createpdf(First_name, Last_name, Description, Address, Location, Date_of_letter, Date_of_Def, pdfname, docFile, tempFolder, pdfFolder){
const tempFile = docFile.makeCopy(tempFolder);
const tempDocFile = DocumentApp.openById(tempFile.getId());
const body = tempDocFile.getBody();
body.replaceText("{First name}", First_name);
body.replaceText("{Last name}", Last_name);
body.replaceText("{Description}", Description);
body.replaceText("{Address}", Address);
body.replaceText("{Location}", Location);
body.replaceText("{Date of letter}", Date_of_letter);
body.replaceText("{Date of Def}", Date_of_Def);
tempDocFile.saveAndClose();
const pdfContentBlob = tempFile.getAs('application/pdf');
pdfFolder.createFile(pdfContentBlob).setName(pdfname);
}
PDF:
Sheets:
References:
getAs()
setValues()