Folder selection box - How to bring it up using Javasript

[Garfield1!]

Not looking for app.browseForDoc() function.  This one only gets the files.  I am looking for a way to bring up the Folder selection box so a user can select the folder location where a list of files are kept and then have a simple script to loop through the folder selected and combine them into one document. 

Does anyone know how to do this?

[try67]

Acrobat JS doesn't have that capability. The only way you can get a list of files in Acrobat is if you run an Action over the folder.

[Garfield1!]

I know that the Action has a Folder selection object and then you can run a javascript right after.  How do you capture what folder option the user selected?

[try67]

You can't. But you can capture the paths of the files it is processing.

[Garfield1!]

This seems to be what I am lookin for:

***********************************************************************************************************************************************************The folder object is defined in the Extendscript DOM and hence can only be used in a jsx file but not in the JS file of the extension. You will have to write your code so that the JS calls the methods of InDesign or Extendscript DOM by calling methods in the jsx file. A basic example would be as follows

in extension js

var csi = new CSInterface()

csi.evalScript('callSelectFolderInJSX()', function(data){

alert("This is the callback that is called once the method of JSX is finished execution. data is the value returned from jsx code)

})

in extension jsx

function callSelectFolderInJSX()

{

     var folder = Folder.selectDialog()

     return folder.fsName.toString()

}

Demonstrated above is a basic framework of communication between js and jsx of extension so that we can have a bridge between the HTML DOM and InDesign/Extendscript DOM.

Hope this helps

-Manan

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How do you call the jsx file from js? 

[try67]

You can't. This code was not written for Acrobat and will not work in it.

[Garfield1!]

You can't. But you can capture the paths of the files it is processing.- so how do you do this?

[try67]

Run the Action on the files and then you would be able to access the path of each one using the path property of the Document object. You can save those paths into a global variable and access them later on.

[Garfield1!]

Can you give an example?

[try67]

I suggest you read the Acrobat JavaScript API Reference about the property I mentioned and the global object, and how to use them.