Navigate to/open Bin

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May 9, 2025
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Does the extension API currently support navigating to and opening a particular Bin in the Project panel, as if the user had double-clicked it?

If not, could it?

- Ryan

Feature request

Correct answer bbb_999

>i would like it to jump me into that newly created Bin in the Project panel...

I think that, currently, the best the API can do is projectItem.select() the desired bin.

Bruce Bullis

Community Manager

No such API exists today...

> If not, could it?

As a former manager often said; "Hey, it's software; anything is possible!" 🙂

ExtendScript can already select projectItems (including bins), and you can make a bin the target for subsequent imports...

What workflows would be enabled, by allowing the API to affect the UI, as you've described?

U

Untold Entertainment Inc.Author

Inspiring

Hey, Bruce. i'm writing an extension to speed up a repetitive part of my workflow. Very often in a project, i:

- create a Bin in a specific place
- double-click to open it
- Import
- navigate to a certain folder
- import an image as a sequence

i've written the extension so that it does all that for me automatically, but i would like it to jump me into that newly created Bin in the Project panel, instead of forcing me to navigate there myself through a series of extra clicks and thinking.

bbb_999Correct answer

Adobe Employee

>i would like it to jump me into that newly created Bin in the Project panel...

I think that, currently, the best the API can do is projectItem.select() the desired bin.

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