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• • January 23, 2016 at 12:59 pm #81037
    Marcin Ploch

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    Hello,
    My workflow is:
    1. first I have 2 elements in a folder ZZZZ ( “xxxxx.INDT” and “yyyyy.XML”)
    2.then I open “xxxxx.INDT” and load “YYYY-yyyyy-YYYY.XML” into XML Root
    3. then do some things

    4. finaly I write a “yyyy.INDD” file in source Folder ZZZZ.

    For first 3 points I’ve written a code, ufff …. :-)

    I’m asking for help for writing a piece of code which will do point 4 :-)

    I’ve made a variable which is a string consist of “sliced” XML file name, but I don’t know how to make Indesign to write a file with the variable as their name in source folder.

    I know that probably it is very simple but I’m very beginner of JS and I’will be very grateful for any help :-)

    Best regards
    Marcin

  • January 23, 2016 at 1:19 pm #81038
    Peter Kahrel

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    myDocument.save (File('ZZZZ/yyyy.indd'));

    P.

  • January 23, 2016 at 1:22 pm #81039
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    If you plan to do any file handling, do read the chapter ‘File system access’ in the JavaScript Tools Guide. Start the ESTK, go to the Help menu, click ‘JaveScripts Tools Guide CC’.

    Peter

  • January 23, 2016 at 1:56 pm #81041
    Marcin Ploch

    Member

    Thank You Peter for the answer.
    Your code works nearly perfect for for my need.
    But there is one more thing ….

    I want Indesign to write a file to a Folder which I’ve chosen during opening a xxxxx.INDT
    Indesign KNOWS the path because alert from this line returns the right value of var SysFolder which is probably a string:

    var SysFolder = Folder.selectDialog(); alert(SysFolder)

    also I’ve made such variables:

    var PlikiIndt = SysFolder.getFiles(“*.indt”); //alert(PlikiIndt[0].name);
    var PlikiXML = SysFolder.getFiles(“*.xml”); //alert(PlikiXML[0].name);

    to save a file name I made another variable:

    var SaveName = “000_” + PlikiXML[0].name.slice(19,-24) + “_” + PlikiXML[0].name.slice(4,15) + “.indd”; alert(SaveName);
    doc.save (File(“/Users/marcinploch/Desktop/TEST” + SaveName));

    finaly indesign writes proper file name but in folder described by given string.

    The question is how to use path from SysFolder variable ??

    Regards
    Marcin

  • January 24, 2016 at 12:07 am #81045
    Marcin Ploch

    Member

    Construction as below solves my problem :-)

    var SysFolder = Folder.selectDialog();

    var SaveFolder = SysFolder;
    var SaveName = SaveFolder + “/” + “000_” + PlikiXML[0].name.slice(19,-24) + “_” + PlikiXML[0].name.slice(4,15) + “.indd”;
    doc.save (File(SaveName));

    Marcin

  • January 24, 2016 at 4:45 am #81046
    Peter Kahrel

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    Marcin,

    Folder.selectDialog();

    returns a Folder object, not a string.

    P.

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