Populating fields with a number of randomly linked records

Description

This is a quick little script for populating fields with a number of randomly linked records. For example if you want to give out a prize (like this one), or randomize some email recievers – you can efficiently link to a random profile / consumer / person (or anything for that matter).

See the original source for a video demo of the script.

Script Code

							/* C O N F I G */
/* names: fill to match own table*/
let tableToPullFrom = 'table';
let viewToPullFrom = 'view';

let tableToWriteTo = 'table';
let viewToWriteTo = 'view';
let fieldToWriteTo = 'field';

/* settings */
let linksPerRecord = 1;
let unique = true;


/* C O D E */
/* creates list with IDs of all records from the table to pull from */
tableToPullFrom = base.getTable(tableToPullFrom);
viewToPullFrom = tableToPullFrom.getView(viewToPullFrom);

let listOfRecordsToPull = [];
let pullResult = await viewToPullFrom.selectRecordsAsync();
for (let record of pullResult.records) {
    listOfRecordsToPull.push({id:record.id});
}

if (listOfRecordsToPull.length < linksPerRecord) {
    throw "You can't request more links per record than there are in view to pull from";
}  

/* choses a random element from the list and pops it if unique is true */
randomElement = listOfRecordsToPull[Math.floor(Math.random() * listOfRecordsToPull.length)]
if (unique == true) {
    var index = listOfRecordsToPull.indexOf(randomElement);
    if (index !== -1) listOfRecordsToPull.splice(index, 1);
    else console.error('ran out of linked records for your request, add more or turn off the unique setting');
}

/* adds {linksPerRecord} number of links per record in table to write to */
tableToWriteTo = base.getTable(tableToWriteTo);
viewToWriteTo = tableToWriteTo.getView(viewToWriteTo);

let writeResult = await viewToWriteTo.selectRecordsAsync();
for (let record of writeResult.records) {
    /* made as set to avoid duplicate errors  */
    let writeInThisRecord = [];
    for (let i = 0; i < linksPerRecord; i++) {
        /* chose random */
        randomElement = listOfRecordsToPull[Math.floor(Math.random() * listOfRecordsToPull.length)];
        /* skip and retry if duplicate */
        if (writeInThisRecord.indexOf(randomElement) !== -1) {
            i--;
            continue;
        }
        /* pop if unique */
        if (unique == true) {
            var index = listOfRecordsToPull.indexOf(randomElement);
            if (index !== -1) listOfRecordsToPull.splice(index, 1);
            else console.error('ran out of linked records for your request, add more or turn off the unique setting');
        };
        writeInThisRecord.push(randomElement);
    /* deal with duplicates */
    writeInThisRecord = Array.from(writeInThisRecord);
    /* update  */
    await tableToWriteTo.updateRecordAsync(record,{[fieldToWriteTo]: writeInThisRecord});
    }
}
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