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Read Range

Description​

This Activity reads data from the specified range of cells from the selected spreadsheet inside Google Drive and returns the read data as DataTable.

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This Activity works only inside Google Context activity.

Properties​

Location​

  • Spreadsheet Path / Id - Specify the relative spreadsheet path or id in the drive.
  • Cell Range - Specify the cell range you want to read. Specify the row or column index to read an entire row or column. By default, it will read the entire sheet.

Misc​

  • DisplayName – Add a display name to your Activity.
  • Private – Logs the variable and argument values at the Verbose level when unchecked.

Optional​

  • Sheet Name - It specifies the sheet's name from where you want to read the data. By default, it will read from the currently active sheet.
  • Include Header - If set to true, the Activity will consider the first row as the column header for the DataTable. By default, it is false.
  • Exclude Duplicate Columns - Specifies if the Activity should exclude duplicate columns by adding only the first occurrence of the column or include them by appending the column letter from the second occurrence onwards.
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For example: If the provided sheet has two columns with the same header column names in the given range, say 'Description' in columns B and F, then the output DataTable will have one 'Description' and one 'Description_F' column.

  • Transpose - Specify how you want to represent the data inside DataTable. If true, it considers each column in the spreadsheet as a data row inside DataTable. The default value is false.
  • Continue On Error – Specifies if the automation should continue even when the Activity throws an error. This field only supports Boolean values (True, False). The default value is False.
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Catches no error if this Activity is present inside the Try-Catch block and the value of this property is True.

Output​

  • Data Table - Returns the data table that contains the data extracted from the specified cell range.

Example​

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Read Range