Get the values of particular columns and filter on a particular column – Google Apps Script

I have this script

function filter2() {
var sss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); //replace with source ID
var ss = sss.getSheetByName('Users'); //replace with source Sheet tab name
var range = ss.getRange('A:G');      //assign the range you want to copy
var rawData = range.getValues()     // get value from spreadsheet 1
var data = []                       // Filtered Data will be stored in this array
for (var i = 0; i< rawData.length ; i++){
if(rawData[i][6] == "User missing")            // Check to see if Column E says No Billing Accountif not skip it
{
data.push(rawData[i])
}
}
var tss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('hsgsklllssdllsls'); //replace with destination ID
var ts = tss.getSheetByName('Summary'); //replace with destination Sheet tab name
ts.getRange(ts.getLastRow()+1, 1, data.length, data[0].length).setValues(data);

}

This is a filter script. In this filter is getting value from source in the range A:G, but i need to get only Column B, Column D, Column F, Column G

How to avoid getting filtered Column A,C,E?

Answer

Explanation:

One way to select particular columns is to use the map function.

• The following will get columns b,d,f,g from the range A:G.

  const rawData = ss.getRange("A:G").getValues().map(([,b,,d,,f,g]) => [b,d,f,g]);

Don’t use a for loop to filter on a particular column.

It is way more efficient to use filter to filter on a particular column. You haven’t specified in your question for which column you want to filter on. Assuming the new data will consist of columns b,d,f,g the column indexes for the raw data will be 0,1,2,3.

For example:

const frawData=rawData.filter(row=>row[3]=="User missing");

this will filter on column g since we have removed a,c,e and column g is in 3rd position (starting from 0). If you want to filter on a different column. Choose 0 for b, 1 for d, 2 for f and 3 for g.

Solution:

function filter2() {
const sss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); //replace with source ID
const ss = sss.getSheetByName('Users'); //replace with source Sheet tab name
const rawData = ss.getRange("A:G").getValues().map(([,b,,d,,f,g]) => [b,d,f,g]); // new code (gets b,d,f,g)
const frawData=rawData.filter(row=>row[3]=="User missing");// 3 means column G. [b,d,f,g] => [0,1,2,3]
const tss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('hsgsklllssdllsls'); //replace with destination ID
const ts = tss.getSheetByName('Summary'); //replace with destination Sheet tab name
ts.getRange(ts.getLastRow()+1, 1, frawData.length, frawData[0].length).setValues(frawData);
}