Google Sheets: Clear range

Empties a block of cells and keeps their formatting.

Kind: google-sheets.clear_range
Palette: Integrations, under Google Sheets
Credential: a credential of kind bearer, named in credential
Other Google Sheets actions: Read rows as objects, Append rows, Update or append a row by key, Read range, Update range, Get spreadsheet details, Create spreadsheet, Add sheet

When to use

Before rewriting a report area that may shrink, so rows from the last run don’t linger below the new ones.
Resetting an input area a person fills in, once a run has read it.

Connection (`with`)

Field	Required	Description
`spreadsheet_id`	yes	The id in the spreadsheet’s address: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<id>/edit. For example: 1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms.

Input (`input`)

Field	Type	Required	Description
`range`	string	yes	What to clear, in A1 notation. Values go; formatting stays.

Settings

Beside with and input in the node’s config.

Field	Type	Required	Description
`credential`	string	yes	Name of the project credential the action authenticates with.
`fail_on_error_status`	boolean	no	Treat any 4xx/5xx as a failure. On by default: an action either did its job or did not. Default `true`.
`optional_when_untrusted`	boolean	no	Run without the credential when the run is untrusted (a fork pull request), instead of failing. The credential is still withheld.
`retry_on`	array	no	Status codes that fail the node instead of returning, so its `retry:` policy applies (e.g. [429, 503]).

Output

The HTTP response. The reply is under body: nodes.<id>.output.body.<field>.

Field	Type	Description
`status`	integer	The HTTP status code.
`headers`	object	The response headers.
`body`	object	The response body, parsed as JSON when it is JSON.
`body.clearedRange`	string	The range cleared, in A1 notation.
`body.spreadsheetId`	string

How it runs

On an agent with the connector capability. The managed environments have one, so this needs no agent of your own.
One POST request to sheets.googleapis.com.
Any 4xx or 5xx fails the step, unless fail_on_error_status is false. retry: asks again after a 5xx, a 401, 408, 409, 423, 425 or 429, or a 4xx with Retry-After, and not after any other 4xx, which would get the same answer.
429 waited out and asked again with backoff, with no retry: on the step.

Example

version: hyperspool-graph/v1
nodes:
  - id: clear
    type: google-sheets.clear_range
    config:
      credential: sheets
      with: { spreadsheet_id: 1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms }
      input: { range: "Summary!A2:D" }
  - id: write
    type: google-sheets.update_range
    config:
      credential: sheets
      with: { spreadsheet_id: 1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms }
      input:
        range: Summary!A2
        values: { $expr: "input.rows" }
edges:
  - { from: clear, to: write }

Clearing an already empty range succeeds, so a retry is harmless.

See Connectors for credentials and versions, and the node reference for every other node.