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Exporting from Google Sheets

Posted by jtakeda on 13 Aug 2019 in Activity log

(This doesn't necessarily relate to Endings, since it's for the WEA, but this is something that might be broadly useful for other HCMC projects and I want to record it somewhere.) 

For WEA, we need to convert a massive, complex spreadsheet and turn it into a simple CSV to be ingested by Asana. That's fairly straightforward usually: download the spreadsheet in ODS, either unzip it or convert it to FODS, and then manipulate the underlying XML. But this spreadsheet was more difficult, as it used a HYPERLINK formula, which contains information that we want in our Asana descriptions. And since the underlying XML of these things is complex, I wanted to use an existing conversion process (like in OxGarage) that gets rid of the majority of the cruft. 

But most of these don't process the HYPERLINK function. A simple solution that I've stumbled on looks something like this:

  1. First download the spreadsheet as Excel
  2. Then, do a control find for =HYPERLINK and search in formula
  3. Simply replace =HYPERLINK with `=HYPERLINK

Save that, and now it can get passed through OxGarage with the `=HYPERLINK as literal text in a cell that can be manipulated simply using a Regex. 

It's a completely brute force method of handling it, but it seems like the simplest for a conversion process. 

This entry was posted by jtakeda and filed under Activity log.

Endings

Concluding, Archiving, and Preserving Digital Projects for Long-Term Usability
A blog for the SSHRC-funded Endings project, 2016-2020
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