Hi there!
I am new to Mindstudio and still learning. One of my personal projects involves building an agent that works with the Update Google Spreadsheet block so I figured I’d test the basics of working with that block before jumping into the “real” agent.
It turned out a bit harder than I thought it was going to be initially as I’ve encountered some issues which have not very obvious (to me, personally) solutions. I want to share them with you in case you want to build a workflow with the Update Google SpreadSheet block.
The “test” agent is pretty simple. It has a “Generate Text” block which gives me some names of fruits, vegetables, and animals and sends all this to the Google SpreadSheet Block to fill columns A, B, and C with those names, respectively.
What I was getting instead looked something like that:
(I only can insert just 1 screenshot per post yet since I’m a newcomer here so here’s a text example):
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E |
| Fruits | Vegetables | Animals | ||
| Apple | Broccoli | Lion, Orange | Cucumber | Tiger |
Apparently, it shouldn’t be writing past column C but it did anyway
I guess I tried pretty much everything to fix it lol:
- Tweaked the prompt
- Changed GSheet settings like completely removed D, E, F and other columns past C out of the doc. MindStudio would recover them itself and still filled
- Limited the access permissions so that no one but me could use columns past C.
- Cursed
- Tried again
The solution turned out to be in the Update the GSheet block settings. Initially, I had it set this way.
Pay attention to the Spreadsheet Content part:
What I needed to do is to leave the variable {{sheet}} and remove everything else. I thought I needed the “fruits, vegetables, animals” to fill A1:C1 entries to have headers but it broke my GDoc instead for some reason.
I moved the headers into the prompt itself and it worked.
Now, the final output looks like that:
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D |
| Fruit | Vegetable | Animal | |
| Apple | Broccoli | Lion | |
| Banana | Spinach | Tiger | |
| Orange | Cucumber | Zebra | |
That’s pretty much it about the issue itself.
If you’re a beginner too and stuck on spreadsheet weirdness drop a comment I’ll be happy to discuss. And if you’re a MindStudio pro, share your wisdom and perhaps some optimization tips and tricks 