Added ability to rotate to a new sheet each month

[tsolid]

I added the ability to rotate to a new sheet on a monthly cadence in case you have a lot of events each month/quarter/year.

[loverso]

Is there any way to make this selectable from the SmartApp? I wouldn't want to have every sheet rotating every month.

[tsolid]

Having it configurable in the ST App would require another config var that is set and passed along in the call to google - lots of overhead when someone could just comment out the lines. I have a lot of data being written and so I end up with 1000s of entries and this was an easy way to separate it each month.

[shackrock]

Question @tsolid - If I implement this code.gs in google without any smartapp changes, how does the smart app know which sheet ID to use? I would assume the ID keeps changing and I need to come in and edit the smart app each month, is that right?

Also do I need to follow a naming scheme in my starting excel sheet here for this to succeed on first setup? Thanks!

[tsolid]

Hey @shackrock it's the same workbook - it creates a new sheet each month, using the format yyyy-MM. Check out the screen shot from one of the ones I have setup:

So you won't need to change the workbook-id each month.

On first-run you can either have a sheet already created following yyyy-MM or it will auto-create one.

[shackrock]

Oh! I thought that a workbook had a limit even if you split it accross different sheets. My whole intent is to avoid filling up a workbook to the max capabilities of google docs really, this may not be a solve for that then, would it?

[tsolid]

Oh! I thought that a workbook had a limit even if you split it accross different sheets. My whole intent is to avoid filling up a workbook to the max capabilities of google docs really, this may not be a solve for that then, would it?

It looks like the limit is 5 million cells - or if you use the default number of cells per sheet someone was able to make 193 sheets.
https://support.google.com/docs/thread/5252676?hl=en&msgid=29381206

So unless you're writing a TON of data then I think you're safe :)

[shackrock]

Hm, ok - I think you're right. I should be able to make one sheet a year essentially, and be totally fine, makes sense, thanks!

[loverso]

I also answered you in the forum; I'm writing a TON of data and need multiple workbooks.
https://community.smartthings.com/t/log-events-to-google-sheets-see-post-36719-154-for-current-github-repo-and-v1-1/36719/494?u=jlv