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GcLondonNy
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April 17, 2015
Question

Automate the process of saving Framemaker documents (*.fm) as Xml Files

  • April 17, 2015
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Hi,

I am new to framemaker. We have a list of Framemaker document files (*.fm files) coming  into a folder.  We need to pick up these files and convert to xml format (same as the saveAs opertion from the File menu).

I have written the follwing function to Save fm files to xml

Code to Save fm files to xml files

function saveAsXml (doc) {

   // Get required parameters for the save function.

    var params = GetSaveDefaultParams();

    var returnParamsp = new PropVals();

  

    // Replace the .fm extension with .mif.

    var saveName = doc.Name.replace (/\.[^\.\\]+$/,".xml");

  

    var i = GetPropIndex(params, Constants.FS_FileType);

    params.propVal.ival = Constants.FV_SaveFmtXml;

    // Save the document as XML.

    doc.Save(saveName, params, returnParamsp);

}

How to automate this process so that code checks -

1) New fm files in the folder

2) Saves the fm file as xml

3) Moves the saved fm file to a different folder

Thanks,

GC

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2 replies

frameexpert
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frameexpertCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 20, 2015

JoH's script is good but it may eventually time out or run out of memory. Where are the .fm files coming from? A better approach may be to have a script on their machine that will automatically save and send an XML file to the incoming folder whenever they close the .fm document.

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JoH
Inspiring
April 20, 2015

Have a look at the sample script below. The "while" loop waits for the specified number of milliseconds, then reads the contents of a directory and processes every individual file in the directory. In my example, it just prints the file path to the console. You would replace this part with your Open / Save as / Move sequence.

For more file system commands, refer to Adobe's Javascript Tools Guide, "File object functions".

var stop = false;


while( stop==false ) {


    // Wait for 20.000 ms


    $.sleep(20000);


    var fld = new Folder("c:/incoming");


    var filesInFld = fld.getFiles("*.fm");


    for(var f=0; f < filesInFld.length; f++) {


        // process the individual file


        $.writeln(filesInFld); 


    }


    // Exit the  loop after 19:00


    var time = new Date();


    if( time.getHours() > 19 ) stop = true;


}
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