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frax_
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November 9, 2015
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Adding thumbnails to collection

  • November 9, 2015
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Hi, working with Adobe Bridge CC on Windows 10 (javascript) - I am trying to add objects to a newly created collection - how do I go about... ?

var myCol = app.createCollection('my new collection');


myCol.add(new Thumbnail(File('/c/folder/pathtomy/file.ai')));

But this doesn't seem to work. I also tried children.push, which didn't work...

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Correct answer Pedro Cortez Marques

Hi

Hope it works on windows10... tested on w7

// it creates collection only if it doesn't exist


if (getCollByName('my new collection') == undefined) app.createCollection('my new collection');


// add all selected thumbnails of 'File' kind to the collection (if has any Folder selected, it will work ok but collection don't catch folders)


if (app.document.selectionsLength > 0) {


    app.addCollectionMember(getCollByName('my new collection'), app.document.selections);


}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


function getCollByName(name) {


    var allColl = app.getCollections();


    for (var a in allColl) {


        if (allColl.name == name) {


            return allColl;


        }


    }


}

1 reply

Pedro Cortez Marques
Pedro Cortez MarquesCorrect answer
Legend
November 10, 2015

Hi

Hope it works on windows10... tested on w7

// it creates collection only if it doesn't exist


if (getCollByName('my new collection') == undefined) app.createCollection('my new collection');


// add all selected thumbnails of 'File' kind to the collection (if has any Folder selected, it will work ok but collection don't catch folders)


if (app.document.selectionsLength > 0) {


    app.addCollectionMember(getCollByName('my new collection'), app.document.selections);


}


////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


function getCollByName(name) {


    var allColl = app.getCollections();


    for (var a in allColl) {


        if (allColl.name == name) {


            return allColl;


        }


    }


}
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frax_Author
Inspiring
November 10, 2015

Thanks, that worked!

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